5th Windsor Military Studies Conference
Major F.A. Tilston VC Armoury, 4007 Sandwich Street, Windsor, ON
5-6 Feburary 2010

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Each February since 2006 the Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, has collaborated with colleagues from The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies,Wilfrid Laurier University and The Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment to present conferences for those interested in military studies.

 

This year's conference, again sponsored by the HRG, LCMSDS, The Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment, HMCS Hunter, The Windsor Regiment, 21 Service Battalion and The Windsor Military Institute, will examine a number of threads in the discipline of military studies, including the sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II and the Canadian Navy's celebration of its centenary.

 

Friday, February 5, 2010
6:45-7:30 pm

Registration

7:30-9:00 pm

Keynote Address - Professor Terry Copp
Professor Emeritus, Wilfrid Laurier University and Director, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies
"In the Forests of the Night: The Essex Scottish in the Rhineland, February 1945"

Saturday, February 6, 2010
8:30-9:00 am: Registration

9:00-9:05 am - Opening remarks

9:05-10:30 am

Roger Sarty, Wilfrid Laurier University
"A Uniquely Canadian Battle: The RCN and the RCAF's Defeat of the U-boat Offensive in the St. Lawrence, 1942-4"

Michelle Fower, Wilfrid Laurier University
"Remembering the Wrens: The Diary of Marion Swinton, WRCNS"

10:30-11:00 am Coffee

11:00 am-12:30 pm

Sean Maloney, Royal Military College of Canada
"The Mechs: Operation Timus Preem, Zhari District, Afghanistan, August 2008"

Peter Kikkert, University of Western Ontario
"Flying the Flag and Sharing Whiskey: The Role of the Canadian Navy in the Arctic, 1945-2010"

12:30-1:15 pm Lunch (featuring performances by Windsor Regiment Band and the Essex & Kent Scottish Regiment Pipes and Drums)

1:15-3:00 pm

Captain (N) Serge C. Bertrand, Chief of Maritime Staff, Strategic Communications Director
"Naval Operations in the 21st Century"
Capt (N) Bertrand's paper will be followed by a panel discussion on Canada's Navy chaired by Cdr Peter Fleming. The panel will be comprised of members of the Regular and Reserve Force Navy who have served on operations both domestically and overseas.

3:00 pm: Closing Remarks by the conference organizers