Program for Fall 2021 Conference and AGM

All events for the Fall 2021 Conference and AGM are held online, using Zoom.

Friday, October 22

19:15-19:30 Welcome: Chair Sarah Hogenbirk

19:30-20:30 Keynote: AFUA COOPER

The Importance of Telling, Researching, and Writing Black Canadian Women’s History

Q&A to follow

20:30-21:00 Honouring ALISON PRENTICE

Alison Prentice Award Trust Fund: Paula Bourne

21:00-22:00 Film: The History of OWHN. Introduction

by filmmaker Donna Gall

Saturday, October 23

09:00-10:30 Roundtable: OWHN Founders

Chair: Pat Staton

  1. Paula Bourne: How We Came To Be: The Birth of OWHN.
  2. Elizabeth Smyth: OWHN- Weaving the tapestry of women’s history: the view from an OISE Field Centre
  3. Gail Cuthbert Brandt: Founding, Foundering, Fostering: Some Personal Perspectives on OWHN’s Organizational History.
  4. Jane Errington: OWHN as a valued community. 
  5. Beth Atcheson: OWHN role with respect to holding museums accountable for women’s history 

Q&A to follow

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Roundtable: OWHN Long Term Members

Chair: Sharon Cook

  1. Dianne Dodd: OWHN in public history 
  2. Sharon Cook: OWHN’s contribution in renewing feminist pedagogy
  3. Alyson King: Encouraging and supporting students within OWHN
  4. Linda Ambrose: “NETWORK” part of the Ontario Women’s History Network.
  5. Rose Fine-Meyer: OWHN: Including Women in History Education in Schools

Open Discussion for all Conference Attendees on

OWHN: anyone can speak & add their own stories

12:30-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-2:15 Roundtable:New directions

Chair: Shannon Stettner

  1. Dolana Mogadime: Online Oral Histories: Looking Back to Understand Racial Justice Today
  2. Samantha Cutrara: Does the “We” Include Women: ‘Imagining a New We’ for 21st century history education
  3. Monda Halpern: 3 Changes over 3 Decades: Reflections on the Evolution of Women’s History

2:30-4:00 OWHN AGM

We welcome all participants to attend & become members

  • Only members may take part in the voting.