This year’s Annual Meeting will take place from Wednesday 30 May – Friday 1 June 2018 at University of Regina in Saskatchewan.
Annual Meeting 2018
University of Regina | Regina Saskatchewan
Wednesday 30 May 2018
8:30 – 10:00 Session 1 – Joint Session with CSCH, CCHA, and CHA
Dr. Luca Codignola-Bo, senior fellow, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame (Rome Global Gateway)
“Rome in Canada: Transnational Approaches to Canadian Religious History”
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 10:45 Welcome to Annual Meeting of the CSCH
- Welcome and opening remarks from the CSCH President
- Program notes from Program Chair
- Notes about facilities and local considerations from Local Arrangements Coordinator
10:45 – 12:15 Session 2: Denominational Experiences in Modern Canada
Jonathan S. Lofft, ThD | University of Toronto / Toronto School of Theology.
‘To My Dear “St. Chad”’: Anglican devotion to an Anglo-Saxon saint in late Edwardian Toronto
Patricia Janzen Loewen | Providence College University
As an immigrant one must make allowances:” Church, Denomination and the Female Experience of Immigration to Canada in the 1920s
Mark McGowan | University of Toronto
The Churches and the Famine Orphans: Catholic and Protestants and the Irish Famine Orphans in British North America, 1847-1848
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch (1:00 – 1:30 Executive Meeting)
1: 30 – 3:00 Session 3: Connections in Canadian and Asian Religious Developments
Sheng-Ping Guo | PhD Candidate – University of Toronto
Identity Negotiating in Cultural Accommodation and Spiritual Practice: A Case Study of the Chinese Diasporic Christians in Four Toronto-based Ling Liang Churches
Cindy Lin | University of Toronto
First Christian Missionaries in the Sixteenth Century in Japan
David Kim-Cragg | University of Saskatchewan
Korean Democracy and the Saskatchewan Mosaic: Missionary Involvement in East Asian Modern History and Repercussions of Saskatchewan Settler Society
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 5:00 Session 4 – Plenary Speaker
Professor John Fea – Messiah College
“Fear, Power, and Nostalgia: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump”
Thursday 31 May 2018
8:30 – 10:00 Session 5: Indigenous Expressions of Christianity in Canada
Bronwyn Evans | MA Student – University of Toronto
Ojibwe Responses to Christianity on Walpole Islands in the 1840s
Laura Robinson | MA History, Laurentian University
Fifty Bucks a Buck: William G. Walton’s Reindeer Plan to Return Sustainability to the Indigenous Communities of Northern Quebec, 1913-1935”
Carling Beninger | University of Saskatchewan, Department of History
“The Development of Indigenous Leadership in the Anglican, Presbyterian, and United Churches of Canada, 1970-1990”
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 – First Business Meeting
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 – Session 6: Religion, Missionaries and the Numbered Treaties
Will J. Pratt | University of Calgary
War and Peace: missionary ideas in Treaty 7 Territory, 1877-1918
Tolly Bradford | Concordia University of Edmonton
Denominational Divergence in Missionary Visions of Treaty Six
Amanda Fehr | University of Saskatchewan
Remembering Willow Heart: Negotiating Catholicism and Indigeneity in Treaty Ten
3:00 – 3:15 Break
3:15 – 4:30 Session 7 – Presidential Address
Dr. James T. Robertson – Tyndale University College & Seminary
For Whom the Bard Tells: The Role of the Society in the Shaping of Historiography
6:00 pm – Evening Banquet
Greko’s, 4424 Albert Street
Details about menu and RSVP to come.
Friday June 01 2018
8:30 – 10:00 – Session 8: Church Policy and Leadership in the Twentieth Century
Bruce Guenther | Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary
Navigating Tradition: The Life and Leadership of Ältester Herman D.W. Friesen
Sandra Beardsall | St. Andrew’s College
“‘Getting their Story into the South:’ Project North and The United Church of Canada, 1975-1988”
Bruce Douville | Algoma University
From “The Destruction of a Human Life” to a “A Private Matter”:
The United Church of Canada and the Debate over Abortion Law Reform, 1960-1980
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:45 Session 9: Anglo-American Expressions of Christian Faith
Warren James Johnston | Algoma University
‘Promising Tidings of a happy Project … to become one People’: Thanksgivings, Britons and others in the long eighteenth century
Todd Webb | Laurentian University
Mabel Loomis Todd and the Will of God: Three Crises of Faith in Late-Nineteenth Century America
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 pm Walking Tour
First Nations University | Located on the uRegina campus
