September 23-24, 2021, Toronto
Settler Vines features four live sessions on the history of wine. They are spread out over the course of two days. The conference also hosts the Avie Bennett Historica Canada Public Lecture in Canadian History on Thursday September 23rd as part of its program.
Do you want to know more about the spread of wine from Europe around the world? Or to explore the impact of globalization on wine production? Or perhaps you are more interested in the environmental histories of vineyards? This conference highlights the varying contributions of Indigenous Peoples, migrants, and scientists. Lastly, it explores how wine has been marketed to new consumers.
For the Avie Bennett public lecture, Settler Vines is honored to welcome Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band. The Osoyoos community created the first Indigenous owned winery in North America. Chief Louie will discuss Indigenous Peoples and the wine industry in British Columbia in the context of globalization and climate change.
Program and registration: https://winevin1.wixsite.com/website/program
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THURSDAY SEPT. 23, 2021
12:30 – 2:15 p.m. SESSION 1: CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND KNOW-HOW: THE
ROLE OF MIGRANTS
Chair: Marcel Martel, York University
Participants:
· Jack Cecillon, Glendon College, „The Rise and Fall of an Early
Ontario Winery“
· Chelsea Davis, Colby College, „All that Glitters is Wine?
Viticultural Capitalists and the Creation of Britain’s Colonial Wine
Industry.“
· Antonio de Ruggiero, Pontifícal Catholic University of Rio
Grande do Sul-PUCRS, „Wine entrepreneurs : Italian immigrants and the
wine-making industry in Rio Grande do Sul“
· Annick Foucrier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: „The
contribution of French traders and migrants to California viticulture“
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. BREAK
2:30-4:15 p.m. SESSION 2: SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
Chair: Carolyn Podruchny, York University
Participants:
Kathleen Brosnan, University of Oklahoma, „Preserving Winescapes
Amidst North America’s Urban Sprawl.“
Erica Hannickel, Northland College, „George Engelmann, 19th Century
North American Grapes, and Europe’s Battle with Phylloxeral“
Mikael Pierre, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne and University of
Newcastle, „A Theoretical Wine Model: Introducing and Adapting French
Wine Literature into Colonial Australia.“
Donna M. Senese, University of British Columbia, „Winescape Heritage
as Agricultural Landscape Resilience in the Southern Interior of British
Columbia“
4:30- 5:45 p.m. AVIE BENNETT PUBLIC LECTURE IN CANADIAN HISTORY
Chief Clarence Louie will deliver a public lecture on Indigenous Peoples
and the wine industry in British Columbia in the context of
globalization and climate change.
FRIDAY SEPT. 24, 2021
1:00 – 2:45 p.m. SESSION 3: CONSUMPTION, QUALITY, AND MARKETING
Chair: David Forer, Master of Wine, Barcelona
Participants:
Marie-Joëlle Duchesne, Université du Québec à Montréal, „The Fertile
Pairing of Wine and Québec: A Cultural History of the Early Commercial
Mandate of the Société des alcools du Québec (1971-1986).“
Patrice Dutil, Ryerson University, „The 1988 ‚Niagara Accord‘ in
Perspective: The Ontario Wine Industry in Four Historical Phases.“
James Simpson, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, „Wine Quality and
international transfers of technology, 1850-1939.“
Steve Stein, University of Miami, „Making Wine for the People’s
Taste: The Emergence of Argentina’s Wine Industry, 1885-1915.“
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. BREAK
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. SESSION 4: EMPIRE, INDIGENOUS AND RACIALIZED MINORITIES
Chair: Ben Bryce, University of British Columbia
Participants:
Shana Klein, Kent State University, „‚Making an American Rhineland‘
in California: The Politics of Grapes, Race, and Westward Settlement.“
Julie McIntyre, University of Newcastle, „Decolonising wine: First
peoples‘ connections with grapes and their products.“
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut,
„British Imperial Viticulture and Settler Colonialism: Should Wine
History Have a Postcolonial Future?“