Inspired by the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in NL, Up She Rises! constitutes a public discussion about women and gender in NL history. It involves academics, researchers, activists, writers, and poets who have studied and written about women and gender in NL history. This is a capstone event to the anniversary year of women’s suffrage in this province. We hope it will inspire people to learn more about the historical experiences of women and gender-diverse folks and to continue the work of engaging with our collective history.
Sunday, November 9
Bruneau Centre, Memorial University
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 am–12:10 pm
Session 5: Women, Land, and Sea
Erica Hurley
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
2:10–3:40 pm
Roundtable: Challenges and Ways Forward (Up She Rises: Redux)
Terry Bishop Stirling, Margot Duley, Vicki Hallett, Willeen Keough, Julia Stryker
3:40–4:00 pm
Rebecca Ralph – Closing Remarks
7:00–9:30 pm
NL Women’s History in Poetry and Fiction
Mary Dalton, Leahdawn Helena, Robin McGrath, Trudy Morgan-Cole, Agnes Walsh
Reception