When the French Were Here
Champlain Quadricentennial
Agenda
Thursday, July 2, 2009 |
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| 10 am | Registration | |
| 4 – 5:30 pm | Opening Ceremonies: Plenary – Keynote David Hackett Fischer: “Champlain and Humanism” University Professor and Warren Professor of History, Brandeis University. - Moderator: Willard Sterne Randall |
IDX Gymnasium |
| 5:30-6:00 pm | Ceremonial Dedication of Jim Sardonis’ Bronze Statue of Samuel de Champlain commissioned by Champlain College | |
| 6:00-7:00 pm | Opening Reception for Registrants and Guests | |
| 7 pm | Dinner: Samuel de Champlain’s Order of Good Cheer | |
Friday, July 3, 2009 |
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| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:30-10:45 am | Breakout Sessions/Presentation of Papers: - John Hessler: “Reading Champlain’s Maps” - Mike Austin: “Spiritual Godfather of Vermont: Samuel de Champlain’s Heritage” - Sylvie Beaudreau: “Commemorations and Historical Memory” - Moderator: Willard Sterne Randall |
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| 11-12 pm | Plenary Keynote: Dr. Eric Thierry: “Champlain and the Iroquois” Research Fellow, Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages, Paris-Sorbonne. – Moderator: Antoine Polgar |
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| 12 pm | Lunch | |
| 1-2:15 pm | Breakout Sessions/Presentation of Papers: - Michael Lange: “Naming Places, Claiming Spaces” - Andrew Buchanan: “Lake Champlain: Axis of Conflict” - Robert Mayer: “The Guns of Samuel de Champlain” – Moderator: Mike Austin |
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| 2:15-2:30 pm | Break – Refreshments | |
| 2:30-3:45 pm | Breakout Sessions/Presentation of Papers: - Jon Parmenter: “Indigenous Context of Champlain’s Activities” - Kevin Dann: “Dreams and Prophecies” - John Moody: “Indigenous People of the Champlain Valley” – Moderator: Michael Lange |
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| 3:45-4 pm | Break-Refreshments | |
| 4-5 pm | Breakout Sessions/Presentation of Papers: - Susan Ouellette: “Patterns of Settlement” - Steven Pendery: “Archaeology of Champlain Settlements” - Steven Delisle: “Eighteenth Century Forts on Lake Champlain” – Moderator: Willard Sterne Randall |
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| 5-6 pm | Dinner | |
| 7-7:45 pm | Transport to boat dock via coaches | |
| 8-11 pm | Lake Champlain Cruise – Music – Fireworks | |
| 11 pm | Transport to campus via coaches | |
Saturday, July 4, 2009 |
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| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast | |
| 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | French-Canadian Heritage Exhibit Open (Free to the Public) - Moderator: Nancy Nahra | Hauke Conference Room |
| 10-11:30 am | Breakout Sessions/Presentation of Papers: - Charles Bashaw: “French Attitudes Towards the New World” - Sheila Morris: “Discovering Your Ties to Samuel de Champlain” - Willard Sterne Randall: “Benedict Arnold: Master of the Lake” - Richard Hunt: “Champlain Explores the Maritimes” |
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| 11:30-11:45 am | Break – Refreshments | |
| 11:45-12:45 pm | Arts and Letters: - Richard DeProspo: “‘The less common idiom’ of Père Isaac Jogues’s Novum Belgium” - Frances Sikola Chevalier: “The Many Faces of La France at Crown Point” - Joanne Farrell & Eric Ronis: “The Theatre of Neptune” – Moderator: Edward Cashman |
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| 12:45-1:45 pm | Luncheon | |
| 2-3:15 pm | Plenary Keynote: Raymonde Litalien: “Historical Antecedents of Lake Champlain’s Exploration” Honorary Archivist of Canada. – Moderator: Antoine Polgar |
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| 3:15-4:00 pm | Migrations and Settlements: - Daniel Métraux: “Québecois Settlement in Greensboro, Vermont” - John J. Duffy: “When Stone Houses Came to the Champlain-Richelieu Borderlands” - Kathy Newton-Whiting: “Through Faith and Medicine: The Fanny Allen Connection” – Moderator: Miriam Horne |
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| 4:00 -4:15 pm | Break – Refreshments | |
| 4:15-5:30 pm | Ideas of Exploration: Sanford Zale: “Late Medieval French Culture and the Beginnings of Overseas Expansion” - Antoine Polgar: “The Grammar of Discovery in Champlain’s Des Sauvages” - Nancy Nahra: “Travel Writers, Travel Liars” – - Moderator: Charles Bashaw |
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| 7 pm | Formal Banquet/Chamber Music Concert | |
Sunday, July 5, 2009 |
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| 7:30 – 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 am | Walking Tour: Christina Dunphy: “A Champlain Neighborhood Walking Tour” (Free to the Public) |
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| 10:00 – 10:45 am | Sheila Morris: “Discovering Your Ties to Samuel de Champlain” – Moderator: Nancy Nahra | |
| 10:00 am – 3:00 pm | French-Canadian Heritage Exhibit Open (Free to the Public) | Hauke Conference Room |
| 10:30 – 12:30 pm | New Laws for New Lands: - John Lovejoy: “The Black Snake Affair” - Edward Cashman: “Justice in the Champlain Islands” - Bruce Morton: “Civil Procedure in Quebec and Vermont: A Comparative Look” - Kenneth Wade: “Les Filles de Roi” – Moderator: James S. Fry |
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