The OWHN 2024 Conference will be held on Friday, October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 105 King Street East, Kitchener, Ontario. On the Saturday, there will be three sessions, each to cover a group of related papers, as detailed below. You can click here to see the Program Schedule for all conference activities.
Session 1: Complicating the Second Wave (Saturday, 9am)
- Alissa Wineland – “Queer Faces, Queen’s Spaces: A Historical Analysis of 2SLGBTQIA+ Activism, Organizing, and Visibility at Queen’s University, 1990 – 1999”
- Rebecca Beausaert – “Frances Touchmenot, Antifeminism, and the 1903 Elora Spinster’s Convention”
- Tom Boogaart/Amelia Matheson – ‘’Quiet Feminism’: Musings on the Second Wave’s Long Tail, 1975-2015”
- Ann Van Der Aa -“Small-Town Pride: Experiences of Rural Lesbians in the 1980s”
Session 2: Women on the Move and Women’s Movements (Saturday, 10:30am)
- Astrid Woerner Kropp – “From Christian Benevolence to Social Change: Canadian Women at the Tokyo YWCA”
- Monda Halpern – “Wives Deserted; Wives Deserting”
- Johanna Jochumsdottir – “New Transnational Approaches to Religion, Feminism and Empire: The Case of the Edwardian Suffrage Movement’s Interest in the Persian Qurratu’l-‘Ayn, Tahirih”
- Marlene Epp/Franca Iacavetta – “Writing an Inclusive Immigrant Women’s History in Canada”
Session 3: Women Breaking Through in Unfamiliar Territory (Saturday, 3:15pm)
- Nicole VanKooten – “Breaking the Glass Canopy: Women in Canada’s Forest Industry”
- Sarah Ann Gould – “We’re Going all the Way from House Leagues to a World Championship: The True Pioneers of Recreational Female Hockey in Ontario 1970-79”
- Vera Zoricic – “Redefining Black Womanhood in the 1970s: The Black Women’s United Front and the Call to Action”