History in the Making 2023

"History in the Making 2023" is proud to welcome keynote speakers Delicé Mugabo, Elle Barbara, Bimadoshka Pucan and August Klintberg.

History in the Making is one of Canada’s longest running graduate student-organized history conferences. HITM presents an invigorating interdisciplinary programme of new findings from students and established scholars. Whose History? / Who’s History? marks the conference’s 28th year.

August Klintberg (Associate Professor, Liberal Studies) is the first keynote on May 5 from 11.a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EDT. 

"An object of irrational fascination: seeking queer kin" // August Klintberg (formerly Mark Clintberg) is an artist who works in the field of art history. He is represented by Pierre François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal, and is an Associate Professor in the School of Critical and Creative Studies at the Alberta University of the Arts. His practice studies archives, architectures, and antecedent artworks with a focus on queer histories, identities, and futures.