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Program

1. Introductory Remarks

Heidi Coombs

Opening Plenary

Linda Kealey – Women’s and Gender History on the Rock: Looking Back and Forging Ahead

https://youtu.be/24Cu6JQkNRg

2. Roundtable: Second Wave Feminism

 Barbara Doran, Noreen Golfman, Peg Norman, and Gerry Rogers

https://youtu.be/nVc12Nigv40

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

https://youtu.be/zBeDjYZIMvQ

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

https://youtu.be/VpbMUzqh6lQ

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

https://youtu.be/tqzkMRuwEAk

 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

https://youtu.be/hMTsqcZD7yI

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

https://youtu.be/OFYwCJFvzDY

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

https://youtu.be/xyyFmxthVuc

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

https://youtu.be/RbtTCNnfrzY

10. NL Women’s History in Poetry and Fiction

Mary Dalton, Leahdawn Helena, Robin McGrath, Trudy Morgan-Cole and Agnes Walsh

https://youtu.be/kY_CewnJhIM