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April 2016
Dr. Mary McAuliffe "Realists and Idealists: Women of the Easter Rising, 1916" SFU-Harbour Centre, Segal rooms, 515 West Hastings Street 7pm. September 2016 Dr. Liz Millward "Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-84," SFU-Harbour Centre Co-sponsored with SFU (Department of History; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies). With funding from SFU, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences November 8, 2017; 7 - 10 p.m. Room 1200, Segal Centre, 500 Granville St. Free and open to the public HANNA and ME: Passing on the Flame A talk on Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: The Life and struggles of an Irish feminist/republican/socialist (1877-1946) Speaker: Dr. Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington Co-sponsors: Department of History, Sociology/Anthropology, and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (SFU); Academic Women (SFU); the Centre for Policy, Culture, and Communities (SFU); The Irish Women's Network (Vancouver); the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography |
1 December, 2016
Dr. Emer O'Toole Waking the Feminists: 2016's Irish Theatre Revolution SFU-Harbour Centre, Fletcher Challenge Theatre Co-sponsored with SFU (Sociology and Anthropology; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Institute for Performance Studies; School for Contemporary Arts) October 2016 Dr. Sandrine Sanos The Philosopher's Body: Simone de Beauvoir and the Sex of Violence SFU-Harbour Centre Co-sponsored with SFU (Department of History; French, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies). With funding from SFU, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences October 12th, 2017 The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in British Columbia Women's History Month at the City of Vancouver Archives. 2017 marks the 100 year anniversary of limited women's suffrage in British Columbia. Our panel of speakers: Lara Campbell (Class and Militancy in Vancouver and Victoria) Sherry Edmunds-Flett (Black Women, Suffrage, and Social Reform in Victoria and Vancouver) Veronica Strong-Boag (Where was Democracy? The Struggle for Suffrage) City of Vancouver Archives 1150 Chestnut St., Vancouver, BC 7-8:30 p.m. Free, drop-in and limited seating. |
