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Program

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

  • Linda Kealey – Women’s and Gender History on the Rock: Looking Back and Forging Ahead
  • Roundtable on Second Wave Feminism: Barbara Doran, Noreen Golfman, Peg Norman, Gerry Rogers
  • 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 and Labrador
  • 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
  • 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

Saturday, Nov 8th @ 6pm (Dinner at Wedgwood Café)

$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

  • Tracy 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 NL, 1890-1940
  • Sonja Boon – “Widows of the West End” & other monikers: Pseudonyms in letters to Smallwood
  • Erica Hurley – TBD
  • Vicki Hallett – How to Escape a Net: Women, Cod, and Multi-species Possibilities in Archival Research in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Heidi Coombs – “Women came and helped her plant the garden”: Gardening, Gender, and the Grenfell Mission in Northern Newfoundland and Labrador, 1906-1949
  • 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 NL
  • Roundtable on Challenges and Ways Forward (Up She Rises: Redux): Terry Bishop Stirling, Margot Duley, Vicki Hallett, Willeen Keough, and Julia Stryker

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