CANADA IN THE AGE OF EISENHOWER

Program Schedule

 
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Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History

 

Combination Room

Trinity College

6 Hoskin Avenue

Toronto, Ontario

Thursday, 21 May 2020

Session 1: Introductory Keynote—5 p.m.

Chair: Robert Bothwell (University of Toronto)

Andrew Preston (Cambridge University): Leader of the Free World: American Nationalism, Internationalism, and World Order

Friday, May 22, 2020

Session 2: The National Security State—9 to 10:30 a.m.

Chair: tbd

Tim Sayle (University of Toronto): ‘Delay and Discourage’: Canadian Responses to the Nuclear Revolution

Kassandra Luciuk (University of Toronto): Fascists, Fellow Travellers, and the Foreign Born: Ukrainian Canadians Encounter the Red Scare, 1945-1965

Christopher Dummitt (Trent University): The Canadian Idea of Eisenhower

Coffee Break—10:15 to 10:30 a.m.

Session 3: A Cold War World—10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.M. 

Chair: tbd

Susan Colbourn (Yale University): Cheers to the Canadian Wheat Surplus!: Lester Pearson’s Visit to Moscow and the West’s Détente Dilemma

David Webster (Bishop’s University) and Greg Donaghy (University of Toronto): ‘A Natural Development’: Canada and Non-alignment in the Age of Eisenhower

Michael Stevenson (Lakehead University) and Asa McKercher (Royal Military College of Canada): From Normandy to NORAD: The North Atlantic Triangle in the Age of Eisenhower

Lunch—12:15 to 1:30 p.m.

Session 4: A Progressive Moment? —1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

Chair: Patrice Dutil (Ryerson University)

P.E. Bryden (Victoria University): ‘An Enduring Faith in Government?’: Political Scandal in 1950s Canada and the United States

Cecil Foster (SUNY Buffalo): The Negro Problem and the White Man’s Country: Canada’s Struggle for Racial Equality

Bettina Liverant (University of Calgary): Responsible Consumerism: The Canadian Family in the Fifties

Session 5: An American Century—3:15 to 4:45 p.m.

Chair: Dimitry Anastakis (University of Toronto) tbc

Stephen Azzi (Carleton University): Canada in the Shadow of American Prosperity

Jonathan English (Columbia University): Getting Off the Highway: Frederick Gardiner and Toronto’s Transit Policy in the Age of the Interstate Highway, 1954-1963

Eric Fillion (University of Toronto): Talkin' Jazz in Canada: The Festival Scene of the Late Fifties