1. Introductory Remarks
Heidi Coombs
Opening Plenary
Linda Kealey – Women’s and Gender History on the Rock: Looking Back and Forging Ahead
2. Roundtable: Second Wave Feminism
Barbara Doran, Noreen Golfman, Peg Norman, and Gerry Rogers
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Women, Land, and Sea
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
Erica Hurley – Mi’kmaw Women: Silenced Voices
8. 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
9. Roundtable: Challenges and Ways Forward (Up She Rises: Redux)
Terry Bishop Stirling, Margot Duley, Vicki Hallett, Willeen Keough, and Julia Stryker
Closing Remarks
Rebecca Ralph
10. NL Women’s History in Poetry and Fiction
Mary Dalton, Leahdawn Helena, Robin McGrath, Trudy Morgan-Cole and Agnes Walsh