(1.1) The Meeting of Two Worlds: Spaniards on the Northwest Coast at the end of the Eighteenth Century

• Dr. Christon Archer, History Department, University of Calgary, Spanish Voyages 1774-1796: a New Look at European-Indian Relations
• Dr. Iris Engstrand, History Department, University of San Diego, The Enduring Achievement of the Spanish Scientists
• Robin Inglis, North Vancouver Museum and Archives, José Cardero: a Spanish artist's Vision of the Northwest Coast in 1791 and 1792

• Byron King Plant, History Department, University of Saskatchewan, Constructing Native Administrative Space in British Columbia, 1945-1969
• LiLynn Wan, History Department, Dalhousie University, A Comparative Study of the Consolidation of the Okanagan and Mi’kmaq Reservations, 1870-1890
• Dr. Marlene Atleo, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba, Klaakishpithl Muya pitlum: A Nuu-chah-nulth House Curtain as a site of cultural resistance & education

(1.3) Culture: Perspectives and Conflict

• Ashleigh Androsoff, History Department, University of Toronto, Assimilate and Become Canadians!: The ABCs of the New Denver Residential School for Sons of Freedom Children, 1953-1959
• Christian Lieb, History Department, University of Victoria, Between Assimilation and Cultural Retention: German Immigrant Experiences in British Columbia after 1945
• Robyn Bourgeois, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto, In Constant Fear: British Columbia's "Culture of Terror" for Aboriginal Women

(1.4) Recent Archeology in the Fraser Valley

• Dave Schaepe, Anthropology Department, University of British Columbia, 3,000 years of Housepit Features: Archaeological Insights into Changing Houses, Households, and Communities in the Mainland Gulf of Georgia region/ Stó:lō Territory, Southwest B.C.
• Dana Lepofsky, Michael Lenert and Sue Formosa, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Archaeology of Sxwoxwiymelh
• Dana Lupovsky and Amanda King, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Working Together on Archaeological Heritage Management: The Perspective of First Nations and Municipal Councillors in the Fraser Valley, B.C.

Session 2-(10:30 am-12:00 noon)

• Dr. David Whitson, Political Science Department, University of Alberta, The Last Best West? Recreation, Gentrification, and Urbanization in Rural British Columbia
• Jenny Clayton, History Department, University of Victoria, Local Initiatives for Wilderness Conservation in British Columbia
• Dr. P. Whitney Lackenbauer, History Department, St. Jerome's University (University of Waterloo), "Who Are They  Who Know BC Best?": The Pacific Coast Militia Rangers Defend the Home Front, 1942-45

(2.2) Land and Treaties in Discursive Practice

• Dr. Daniel L. Boxberger, Anthropology Department, Western Washington University, Treaty Tales: Coast Salish Oral Histories and the Written Record
• Dr. Douglas R. Hudson, Social, Cultural and Media Studies Department, University College of the Fraser Valley, The Discourse of Indigenous Land Rights and Identity in a BC Courtroom
• Robert Harding, School of Social Work & Human Services, University College of the Fraser Valley, Framing BC Treaty Issues in the News: Old Stereotypes and New Opportunities

(2.3) Borderlands Relationships across Permeable Boundaries

• Josh Reid, History Department, University of California-Davis, The Strait of Juan de Fuca: Indigenous Marine Borderland, 1780s-1930s
• Timothy A. Orr, History Department, University of California-Davis, The Nature of the Railroad: Railroad Development and Environmental Transformation in the British Columbia-U.S. Northwest Borderlands, 1881-1920
• Dr. Jeremy Mouat, History Department, Augustana Campus, University of Alberta, Engineering a Treaty: The Negotiation of the Columbia River Treaty of 1961/64

(2.4) Perspective on Stó:lō History

• Albert 'Sonny' McHalsie, Director, Stó:lō Nation Research and Resource Management Centre, Everything That Belongs to Us
• Dr. Keith Thor Carlson, History Department, University of Saskatchewan, Innovation, Tradition and Colonialism in Fraser River Aboriginal Fishing Disputes
• Dave Robertson, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, Stó:lō Peoples "Chinook Writing," A First Community Literacy

(3.1) Voices and Representations

• Stephanie Keane, English Department, University of Victoria, A Spinning Rack of History: Tourism and Popular Press Representations of Non-Urban British Columbia
• Dr. John Moffatt, English Department, University College of the Fraser Valley, “That Weird Whiteman’s Language”: The Chinook Jargon and the Rhetoric of Cultural Identity in British Columbia
• Dr. Christine Elsey, Social, Cultural and Media Studies Department, University College of the Fraser Valley, Conflicting Articulations of Canadian Native Identity: The Shifting Sands within the Native Experience

(3.2) Indigenous-newcomer encounters

• Dr. Allan K. McDougall, Political Science Department, and Dr. Lisa Philips, Anthropology Department, University of Western Ontario, Translocality and Identity: Children of the Fur Trade in Early British Columbia
• Tero Mustonen, University of Joensuu and Tampere, Finland, Harmony, Discord and Despatches from the Cold Sea of the North Pacific
• Dr. Coll Thrush, History Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver the Cannibal: Cuisine, Colonialism, and the Dilemma of Difference on the Northwest Coast, 1778-1808

(3.3) Faith, Gender and Rebellion

• Dr. John LeBlanc, Critical Studies Department, University of British Columbia-Okanagan and Luis LM Aguiar, Sociology Department, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Christian Punk: A Productive Cross-Cultural Interaction?
• Dr. Tina Block, History Department, University of Victoria, “The Christian Faith is For Sissies and Old Ladies”: Secularizing and Masculinizing the Pacific Northwest, 1950-1975

• Forrest Pass, History Department, University of Western Ontario, The Star of the Empire and the Sea of Mountains: British Columbia Viewed From Eastern Canada, 1858-1871
• Dr. Jim Daems and Dr. Carl Peters, English Department, University College of the Fraser Valley, "th word offering': bill bisset's writing inside writing
• Dr. Ronald Hawker, Department of Art and Design, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Connecting Worlds: Totem Poles and Native Voices in Canadian Public Culture

(4.1) BC Studies and the New Media

• Larry Hannant, History Department, Camosun College and the University of Victoria, The death of Peter V. Verigin website and the teaching of BC history
• Dr. John Lutz, History Department, University of Victoria, Victoria’s Victoria: Microhistory, Internet and Community in BC Studies

(4.2) Acting and Thinking Otherwise: Challenges to
the Liberal Order in 1960s BC

• Robert L.A. Hancock, History Department, University of Victoria, Wilson Duff and the Defense of Aboriginal Rights
• Jonathan Peyton, History Department, University of Victoria, Biting the Hand that Feeds: The Re-emergence of “Traditional” Agriculture in the 1960s
• Roberta Lexier, History Department, University of Alberta, Student Identity and the Student Movements at Simon Fraser University

(4.3) Reshaping BC Resource Policy, 1950-1980

• Dr. Robert Griffin, Royal BC Museum, Behind Closed Doors: Managing Forest Policy and Economic Development
• Dr. Richard A. Rajala, History Department, University of Victoria, “What is Going On is Almost Guerrilla Warfare”: The Coast Logging Guidelines and Forest Practice Regulation in British Columbia During the early 1970s
• Dr. Lorne F. Hammond, Royal BC Museum, Shifting Parameters and Community Voice: Oil and BC's Northern Coastal Communities, 1967-1977

• Herb Joe , Tixwelatse, Cultural Community Worker, Xyolhemeylh, T'xelátse me tokw' telo qays Is Finally Home
• Sue Rowley, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, co-presenting with Anthony Shelton, Director, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
• Bonnie Schmidt, History Department, Simon Fraser University, Performance Display and the Shaping of Civic Identity: The Inner World of Police Museums in British Columbia's Lower Mainland

(5.1) Environment and Resource Management

• Desiree Mou, Independent Scholar, Lillooet Land Resource Management Planning and the Barriers to Consensus
• Dr. Tina Loo, History Department, University of British Columbia, Disturbing the Peace: Environment and Justice on a Northern River
• David Schaepe, Mark Graham, Tracey Joe, and Sonny McHalsie, Stó:lō Nation Research and Resource Management Centre, Air Quality and the Dry-Rack Fishery in the Fraser Canyon-Summer 2006-Joint Stó:lō Nation/Ministry of Environment Pilot Project

(5.2) State Formation and Public Education in a Global Context

• Dr. Robert McDonald, History Department, University of British Columbia, British Columbia’s Civil Service: A Study of State Formation and Modernity, 1871-1975
• Stephen Buckley, Political Science Department, Simon Fraser University, Gordon Campbell’s Neoliberalism, Public Education, and the Global Village
• Dr. Robert Whiteley, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, with Dr. Luis Aguiar, Sociology Department, UBC-O and Tina Marten, Sociology and Geography Departments, UBC-O, Corporate Takeover: The Creation of UBC-Okanagan

(5.3) Welfare, Disease and Cultural Interpretation

• Jonathan A. Clapperton, History, University of Saskatchewan, Who"s Telling Who?: The Coqualeetza Longhouse, Shxwt'a:sehawtxw and the Audience's Role on Making History
• MacKinley Darlington, History, University of Saskatchewan, Overcoming the Past: The Study of Tuberculosis and the Stó:lō
• Liam Haggarty, History, University of Saskatchewan, "I'm Going to Call it Spirit Money": An Ethnohistory of Social Welfare Among the Stó:lō