2021 Colloquium

14-15 May 2021 

Thank you to our panelists, plenary speakers, keynote and attendees for another wonderful event. We hope to return to an in person program for 2022.

Conference Program

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Keynote Address

Combat and Social Change in the Second World War: The Canadian Army in Commonwealth Perspective

Jonathan Fennell, King’s College London, author of Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (2019).

Opening Plenary

Gathering from the Farms: Rural Canada and the First World War

Jonathan F. Vance, Western University, author of 2018 C.P. Stacey Award winner A Township at War (2018).

Closing Plenary

Norman Bethune and the Bishop: The  Spanish Civil War in the Streets of Montreal

Terry Copp, Wilfrid Laurier University