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36 November 2003 News from National Committees
on "Teaching Women's History"
which was audio and video-recorded. Panellists
discussed their experiences in teaching some of the first
women's history courses in the region.
These ranged from the early 1970s (
appear as a "forum" in a
forthcoming issue of "Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic
Region."
The Women's History Network of B.C.
Annual General Meeting was held on
HONOURS
Beverly Lemire, Professor, Dept.
of History,
Cynthia Toman, assistant professor,
school of nursing,
War". She will receive
the 2003 Governor General's Gold Medal for outstanding doctoral achievement
in the Humanities at the
CALL FOR PAPERS
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF NURSING/ L’ASSOCIATION
CANADIENNE POUR L’HISTOIRE DU NURSING
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Friday June 11 Sunday June 13, 2004
York University
Toronto, Ontario
The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing invites abstracts for
papers on any topic in the history of nursing. Papers must represent
original work not already published or in press. We are seeking papers
from community scholars, students, full-time researchers and academics.
Papers should be 20 minutes in length. The programme committee welcomes
proposals for symposiums. These sessions should
include three 20 minute papers, a 20 minute comment from the chair or moderator,
plus another 20 minutes for questions and discussion from the audience.
Guidelines for the submission of abstracts
Abstracts should be 250 words in length, can be in either French or English,
and may be submitted by e-mail or in hard copy. If submitted by e-mail,
please use either WordPerfect of Microsoft Word. The abstract
should include a complete title, the author’s name, address, and institutional
affiliation if she/he has one. Please include contact
information: telephone number, email address, fax, and full postal address.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is on or before
Email to: carol.helmstadter@rogers.com
Mail to:
CAHN 2004 Conference
c/o Carol Helmstadter
34
Registration and preliminary program information is available at www.allemang.on.ca
or www.ualberta.ca/~jhibberd/CAHN_ACHN.
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Publications and other academic activities of
Dr. Yolande Cohen,
UQAM,
Yolande Cohen, Jacinthe Pepin, Esther Lamontagne et
André Duquette. Les
sciences infirmières : genèse dune discipline. Histoire de la Faculté des sciences infirmières de lUniversité de
Montréal, Montréal, Les Presses de lUniversité de Montréal, 2002.
Yolande Cohen et Esther Lamontagne, «Bénévolat féminin dans le secteur de
la santé : une histoire sans qualité», J. J. Lévy, D. Maisonneuve, H. Bilodeau et C. Garnier, dir., Enjeux psychosociaux
de la santé (Sainte-Foy, Les Presses de lUniversité du Québec, 2003) : 205-218
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Yolande Cohen et Esther Lamontagne, « Pour les pauvres malades, des services
de nutrition : histoire du Montreal Diet Dispensary de 1879 à
1948 », communication au congrès de la Société historique du Canada, Halifax,
30 mai 2003.
Yolande Cohen, «Religious Philanthropies, Caring and Nursing History : The
Canadian Case» communication au congrès mondial de lassociation internationale
de science politique, Durban, 1er juillet 2003
Yolande Cohen , « Historical Perspectives on Parity and Equality (France-Québec)
», communication au colloque Gender, Community, and Citizenship :France and
Canada Compared, Princeton University, 8 mars 2002.
Yolande Cohen , «Equality and rights», panel B4:
Changes in European Family Policy, Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, 14-16
mars 2002
CONFERENCES/MEETINGS
The
first Atlantic Canada regional meeting of the Canadian Committee on Women's
History took place on Saturday 4 October in
on "Teaching Women's History"
which was audio and video-recorded. Panellists
discussed their experiences in teaching some of the first
women's history courses in the region.
These ranged from the early 1970s (
appear as a "forum" in a
forthcoming issue of "Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic
Region."
The Women's History Network of B.C.
Annual General Meeting was held on
HONOURS
Beverly Lemire, Professor, Dept. of
History,
Cynthia Toman, assistant professor,
school of nursing,
War". She will receive
the 2003 Governor General's Gold Medal for outstanding doctoral achievement
in the Humanities at the
CALL FOR PAPERS
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF
NURSING/ L’ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE POUR L’HISTOIRE DU NURSING
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Friday June 11 Sunday June 13, 2004
York University
Toronto, Ontario
The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing invites abstracts for
papers on any topic in the history of nursing. Papers must represent
original work not already published or in press. We are seeking papers
from community scholars, students, full-time researchers and academics.
Papers should be 20 minutes in length. The programme committee welcomes
proposals for symposiums. These sessions should
include three 20 minute papers, a 20 minute comment from the chair or moderator,
plus another 20 minutes for questions and discussion from the audience.
Guidelines for the submission of abstracts
Abstracts should be 250 words in length, can be in either French or English,
and may be submitted by e-mail or in hard copy. If submitted by e-mail,
please use either WordPerfect of Microsoft Word. The abstract
should include a complete title, the author’s name, address, and institutional
affiliation if she/he has one. Please include contact
information: telephone number, email address, fax, and full postal address.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is on or before
Email to: carol.helmstadter@rogers.com
Mail to:
CAHN 2004 Conference
c/o Carol Helmstadter
34
Registration and preliminary program information is available at www.allemang.on.ca
or www.ualberta.ca/~jhibberd/CAHN_ACHN.
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Publications and other academic activities of
Dr. Yolande Cohen,
UQAM,
Yolande Cohen, Jacinthe Pepin, Esther Lamontagne et
André Duquette. Les
sciences infirmières : genèse dune discipline. Histoire de la Faculté des sciences infirmières de lUniversité de
Montréal, Montréal, Les Presses de lUniversité de Montréal, 2002.
Yolande Cohen et Esther Lamontagne, «Bénévolat féminin dans le secteur de
la santé : une histoire sans qualité», J. J. Lévy, D. Maisonneuve, H. Bilodeau et C. Garnier, dir., Enjeux psychosociaux
de la santé (Sainte-Foy, Les Presses de lUniversité du Québec, 2003) : 205-218
CONFERENCE
PAPERS
Yolande Cohen et Esther Lamontagne, « Pour les pauvres malades, des services
de nutrition : histoire du Montreal Diet Dispensary de 1879 à
1948 », communication au congrès de la Société historique du Canada, Halifax,
30 mai 2003.
Yolande Cohen, «Religious Philanthropies, Caring and Nursing History : The
Canadian Case» communication au congrès mondial de lassociation internationale
de science politique, Durban, 1er juillet 2003
Yolande Cohen , « Historical Perspectives on Parity and Equality (France-Québec)
», communication au colloque Gender, Community, and Citizenship :France and
Canada Compared, Princeton University, 8 mars 2002.
Yolande Cohen , «Equality and rights», panel B4:
Changes in European Family Policy, Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, 14-16
mars 2002
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Organisatrice du colloque, Gender, Community,
and Citizenship:
Compiled
by Lynne Marks
O Conferences
Network for Research in Women’s History Conference
In late September, the one-day conference ‘Imagining Worlds’
held at Mildura was well-attended and the papers presented were:
Christine CHEATER(
Shannon SCHEDLICH-DAY (Flinders)‘The Visual as Grist for the Memory Mill: Pioneer Women in Colonial Painting’
Margaret ALLEN (
Barbara BAIRD (
Jane CAREY (
Sueellen MURRAY Victoria '"Make pies not wars": Protests against nuclear war and violence against women by the women's peace movement of the 1980s'
Goldie OSURI (
Robin SECOMB (
Penny RUSSELL (
Vicki HASKINS (Flinders) 'Fear the bitch who sheds no tears': the persistence of the female scapegoat in Australian historical drama'
Penny ROBINSON.(La Trobe) The 'natural prey of unscrupulous men': Labor Women interpret Aboriginal appeals in the mid-1930s
Lisa FEATHERSTONE(
The
next Network for Research in Women’s History Conference, Visions: how women
historians imagine the past
will be held at the
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. Provide the title of the conference
and your name and contact details. Give details of any special facilities
required (eg PowerPoint , overhead projector) Send to Lyn Hunter, School of
Humanities, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, PO Box 127 Ourimbah
2258, or by email to Lyn.Hunter @newcastle.edu.au by Monday 1 December 2003.
Any queries? For Network
for Research in Women’s History, please contact Professor Lyndall Ryan
(Lyndall.Ryan@newcastle.edu.au).
Festschrift for Professor Emeritus
Jill Roe.
Jill Roe has retired recently from Macquarie Uuniversity
and a festschrift for her will be held on February 11,12, 13th , 2003 and
a New Directions in Australian Women's History Conference (showcasing postgrad
and post doctoral work in the field) to mark the transition at Macquarie at
the same time. For further information
please contact Mary Spongberg (mspongbe@hmn.mq.edu.au) or
Melanie Oppenheimer (m.oppenheimer@uws.edu.au)
Lilith
Symposium 2003
'Identities:
Creation and Representation'
Fifth
Floor Common Room,
Keynote
Speaker: Penny Russell
For
conference updates, or to subscribe to the journal, please visit
our website at: www.history.unimelb.edu.au/lilith
Grants
Professor Vera Mackie,(
Dr Clare Wright,(La
has
won an ARC Postdoctoral Grant to undertake the
first systematic study of the role of women in an iconic event in Australian
history - the Eureka Stockade of 1854.
The research will challenge the prevailing representation of
PROJECTS
In October she will present a seminar 'Gender, class
and race in historical analysis: the case of White Australia' at
Miranda Morris (Gender Studies program at the University
of Tasmania, morrisme@utas.edu.au) has been in the UK researching The Trials
of Gertrude Kenny, the matron, from 1868 at a Girls Industrial School and
then at the New Norfolk Asylum.
At
Mary Cannon (La Trobe University) has been awarded her Ph D for her study
on Adela Pankhurst as the invisible Pankhurst.
PUBLICATIONS
Diane Kirkby and Hilary Golder 'Mrs. Mayne and her boxing kangaroo: a
married woman tests her property rights in colonial NSW',1
Law and History Review, Fall 2003
Diane Kirkby 'Beer, glorious beer: gender politics and Australian popular
culture',1 Journal of Popular
Culture, Oct 2003
Diane Kirkby 'Barmaid, the landlady and the Publican's Wife,'1 in Margaret
Thornton,ed., Romancing the Tomes: Feminism Law and Popular Culture,
Michelle Arrow's book Upstaged : Australian
women dramatists in the limelight at last. Currency Press, Pluto Press, 2002.has
been shortlisted for several prizes.
Mary Spongberg Writing
Women's History (Palgrave) 2002
Hsu-Ming Teo edited with Richard White Cultural History in Australia
2003
It contains chapters from Hsu Ming, Katie Holmes and Tanya Luckins.
Cathy Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon,(eds) Madness in Australia UQ Press,has
chapters by Ruth Ford, Tanja Luckins, Lee-Anne Monk, Susan Piddock, Belinda
Robson, Ann Westmore, Emily Wilson.
Margaret Allen ‘Homely stories and the ideological work of “Terra
Nullius”’ Journal of Australian
Studies October 2003
The National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame (NPWHF) has launched a fund raising project involving two Signature Quilts, each containing over 150 autographs and inspirational messages from women who have been first in their field throughout Australia. See www.pioneerwomen.com.au
Compiled by Margaret Allen
Organisatrice du
colloque, Gender, Community, and Citizenship:
Compiled by Lynne
Marks