Friday, Nov 7th @ 7pm (The Rooms) – registration required: http://bit.ly/4hShrPP
Margot I. Duley – “Fishing for Answers”: Does the Newfoundland Women’s Suffrage Movement neatly fit into other scholarship on suffrage?
Saturday, Nov 8th @ 10am-4pm (Sessions at Bruneau Centre, MUNL) & online: http://bit.ly/43J3nC1
| 10:00-10:10 am | Heidi Coombs – Introductory Remarks |
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10:10-10:40 am |
Opening Plenary Linda Kealey – Women’s and Gender History on the Rock: Looking Back and Forging Ahead |
| 10-Minute Break | |
| 10:50-12:20 pm |
Roundtable: Second Wave Feminism Barbara Doran, Noreen Golfman, Peg Norman, and Gerry Rogers |
| 12:20-1:00 pm | Lunch |
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1:00-1:40 pm |
Session 1: Women, Spirituality, and Community Willeen Keough – The ‘old hag’ meets St. Brigid: Irish-Newfoundland women and the intersection of spiritualities on the southern Avalon Bonnie Morgan – Sensory Anglicans: Women, Textile Making and Faithfulness in 20th-century Newfoundland |
| 1:40-2:20 pm | Session 2: Mothers, Families, and the State
Terry Bishop Stirling – Regulating Families: The Work of the St. John’s Welfare Office, 1936-1943 Rebecca Ralph – Problems with Pensions, Licensure, and Discrimination: Married Women and the Teacher Shortage in Post-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador |
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20-Minute Break |
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2:40-3:40 pm |
Session 3: Gender and Home Production Meaghan Walker – Production and Consumption in Bonavista: Menswear Sales as a Method to Understand Women’s Home Production using the Ryan’s Merchant Records, 1860-1880s Raymond Blake & Hayward Blake – The Personal Is Historical and History Is Personal Andrea O’Brien – Some Old White Guy Lived There: Rethinking Existing Narratives and Searching for Herstory |
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3:40-4:00 pm |
Provincial Historic Commemorations Designation |
Saturday, Nov 8th @ 6pm (Dinner at Wedgwood Café, 17 Elizabeth Avenue)
$65 per person, to make a reservation email: nlhistsociety@gmail.com
Please note: reservations and payment must be received by November 5th @ 5pm.
- Anita Best & Ellen Power – Musical Entertainment
- Readings of letters representing women’s experiences in NL history
Sunday, Nov 9th @ 10am-4pm (Sessions at Bruneau Centre, MUNL) and online: http://bit.ly/4p2RK1l
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10:00-11:00 am |
Session 4: Politics, Agency, and Leadership
Tracey Evans-Rice & Andrea Procter – Stories of Strength and Connection: Celebrating Inuit Women’s Leadership in Nunatsiavut Meret Ebsary – Trusted to Choose?: Women and the Politics of Control in Newfoundland, 1890-1940 Sonja Boon – “Widows of the West End” and other monikers: Pseudonyms in letters to Smallwood, 1948-51 |
| 10-Minute Break | |
| 11:10-12:10 pm | Session 5: Women, Land, and Sea
Erica Hurley – TBD Vicki Hallett – How to Escape a Net: Women, Cod, and Multi-species Possibilities in Archival Research in Newfoundland & Labrador Heidi Coombs – “Women came and helped her plant the garden”: Gardening, Gender, and the Grenfell Mission in Northern Newfoundland & Labrador, 1906-1949 |
| 12:10-12:50 pm | Lunch |
| 12:50-1:50 pm | Session 6: Creative Approaches to Women’s & Gender History
Julia Laite – Sketches of a Life? Toward a Biography of Shanawdithit Kristina Bidwell – Reading Academic Colonialism in Labrador: Lydia Campbell and the John Mason Hastings Diary Rhea Rollman – Reading Between the Lines: Researching Marginalized Community Histories in Newfoundland and Labrador |
| 20-Minute Break
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| 2:10-3:40 pm | Roundtable: Challenges and Ways Forward (Up She Rises: Redux)
Terry Bishop Stirling, Margot Duley, Vicki Hallett, Willeen Keough, and Julia Stryker |
| 3:40-4:00 pm | Rebecca Ralph – Closing Remarks |
Sunday, Nov 9th @ 7pm (Colonial Building, St. John’s) – registration required: http://bit.ly/47t0w1d
NL Women’s History in Poetry and Fiction: Mary Dalton, Leahdawn Helena, Robin McGrath, Trudy Morgan-Cole, and Agnes Walsh