History Honours Symposium 2026

Shubhreet Kaur Dadrao - “Beta… Being Happy for You Means Being Khush”: Khush and Queer South Asian Representation in 1980s–90s Toronto

Matthew Tsui - Slowly, Then All at Once: Analyzing Hong Kong Consciousness Amongst Youths Through the Undergrad (1966–1968)

Ciara E. Albrecht - Ancient Clothing, Living Ghosts: Pre-Colonial Memory and National Imaginings in Ireland (1860–1930)

Eman Murshed - “Love and Hate”: Imagining and Actualising an Anti-Racist Counter-Britishness in England (1980–2001)

Carson Metanczuk - Defining Boundaries: Quarantine Policy and Identity Formation in British Columbia -

Agostino Pizzolato - Naika Mamook-Kumtuks Mesaika/I Will Teach You: Christian Missionization, Chinook Pipa Literacy, and Indigenous Agency in BC’s Interior in the Late Nineteenth Century

Luka Lukic deBakker - Visual Representations of Greenland in Denmark: 1870–1945

Hannah McDermott - The Picturesque Past: Understanding the Use and Expressions of Historical Dress in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Raffaella Law - Aspiration Without Disruption: Women Advertisers and the Making of Professional Femininity in Late-Twentieth-Century America

Hana Ito - “You Are the Child-Killing Mother!”: Radical Solidarities of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan, 1969–75

Ari Provost - Machiavellian Mercy: Arbitrary Sentencing of Patriots During the Court Martial in Lower Canada in 1838–39

Erin Dawson - Seers, Storms, and Spindles: Women’s Magic and Spinning in Settlement- and Commonwealth-Era Iceland

Alli Kaounas - « La Politique de la Piété »: Reputation, Court Gossip, and the Construction of Madame De Maintenon’s Légende Noire in Louis XIV’s ‘Third’ Reign