Bringing Subsistence out of the Shadows Workshop
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Preliminary Program

Friday, October 2nd
WKP Kennedy Gallery

6:30 pm – Opening Reception Contemplating Local Food: An Evening at the Kennedy Gallery

Saturday, October 3rd,
Monastery Hall, Nipissing University

9:00 – Opening Remarks
Dean Bavington and James Murton

9:15 - Thinking Through Subsistence
1. In defence of vernacular ways
Sajay Samuels
2. Querying Subsistence: Exchange and the State
Michael Hathaway

10:30 – Break

10:45 - Between Profit and Subsistence
3. Profitable Subsistence: Flax in Local and Transnational Fibre Commodity Chains
Josh MacFayden
4. Rural Households, Subsistence and Environment on the Canadian Shield, 1890-1950
Ruth W. Sandwell

Lunch 12:00 – 1:00

1:00 – Disappearing Subsistence Relationships
5. Settler Subsistence Fisheries in 19th century Ontario
William Knight
6. From Subsistence to Sport: Quebec's sport fishery as a case study in landscape
modification.
Darin Kinsey.

2:15 – Break

2:45 – Food Production and Consumption
7. Sowing the seeds of calculability: A case study of colonial agricultural control in late-19th
century Manitoba.
Sarah Martin
8. Industrializing Taste: Food Habits and Technological Change in the United States, 1900-
1970
Gabriella Petrick

4:00 – Contemporary Subsistence 1: First Nations
9. Aboriginal Subsistence Practices in an “Isolated” Region of Northern Alberta
Clinton N. Westman
10. First Nations Fisheries on Lake Nipissing
Nancy Pottery

7:00 Dinner at White Owl Bistro.


Sunday, October 4th
Monastery Hall, Nipissing University

8:30 – Contemporary Subsistence 2: Sustainability
11. Thresholds, States and Stakeholders: From Subsistence to Sustainability in the Lake
Victoria Basin
Jennifer Johnson.
12. Alternative agriculture and human rights: Prospects for truly sustainable development from
two Brazilian examples
Jahi Chappell
13. Hunting in the Shadows, Subsisting at the Margins?: On the Holism of Subsistence
Hunting in the Modern Day
Katja Neves and Mark Watson

10:30 Break

11:00 – Keynote: Colin Duncan


For more information, contact Bruce Erickson at brucee at nipissingu dot ca (replace "at" and "dot" with appropriate symbols).