Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society
George Story Lecture and Annual General Meeting
Marine Institute - Hampton Hall
The Return of History?
Newfoundland and Labrador
after the Oil Boom and the Hydro Bust
Dr. Jerry Bannister
April 30, 2020
Building on the themes established in A river runs through it (2012), Dr. Bannister will explore the changing roles of history since
the province’s economic downturn.
He will trace patterns in political culture and
collective memory from the Williams era to the present day, as the province
experienced the end of triumphalism and the return to a politics of loss.
In
discussing the causes and consequences of the Muskrat Falls crisis, he will examines the ebb and flow of Newfoundland nationalism over the past 20 years. Is this province breaking with its past or returning to its 20th century narrative?
A graduate of Memorial University and the University of Toronto, Dr. Jerry Bannister is an associate professor of History and
Acting Director of the Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University.
Born and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, he is a past member of the Executive of the Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society.
Recent books:
- Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott See, eds., Violence, Order, and Unrest: A History of British North America,
1749-1876 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. - Melvin Baker, Jerry Bannister, and Christopher Curran, eds., Essays on the Legal History of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John’s: Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2019.
- Jerry Bannister and Liam Riordan, eds., The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012
- William R. Keylor and Jerry Bannister, The Twentieth-Century World: An International History. First Canadian Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Jerry Bannister, The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland,
1699-1832 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
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