MONDAY, MAY 30
LUNDI LE 30 MAI

11:00-12:30/11 h 00-12 h 30
Roundtable on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity: Historical Trajectories and Professional Norms / Table ronde sur l’équité, la diversité et l’inclusivité:Trajectoires historiques et normes professionnelles
BMH 204

Kim Anderson, Independent Scholar
Tina Mai Chen, University of Manitoba
Afua Cooper, Simon Fraser University
Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University
Malinda Smith, Vice-President, Equity, Canadian Federation for the Humanities
and Social Sciences

Co-sponsored by the CHA’s Committee on Equity and Diversity and the Canadian
Committee on Women’s History / Coparrainée par le Comité sur l’équité et la
diversité de la SHC et le Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes

12:30-2:00/12 h 30-14 h 00
BUSINESS MEETING / SÉANCE DE TRAVAIL
BMH 108


5:00-7:00 /17 h 00-19 h 00
RECEPTION/RÉCEPTION
The Canadian Committee on Women’s History and the Canadian Committee on the
History of Sexuality will host a joint reception at the home of Gail Campbell and
Gillian Thompson, 700 Gregg Court, a block from the St. Thomas University campus.
Details will be made available at the CCWH business meeting. / La réception du
Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes et le Comité canadien d’histoire de la
sexualité se tiendra à la résidence de Gail Campbell et de Gillian Thompson, 700
Gregg Court, à un pâté de maisons du campus de l’Université St-Thomas. Les détails
seront disponibles à la séance de travail du CCHF.


TUESDAY, MAY 31
MARDI LE 31 MAI

8:30-10:00 / 8 h 30-10 h 00
Writing the History of Second-Wave Feminism in Canada / Écrire l’histoire de
la seconde vague féministe au Canada BMH 102

Dominique Clément, University of Alberta
Was there a ‘national’ women’s movement in Canada? The Historiography of
Second Wave Feminism and the Myth of the National

Margaret Little, Queen’s University, and Lynne Marks, University of Victoria
Discourses of Motherhood and Second Wave Women’s Movements in English
Canada

Roberta Lexier, Mount Allison University
The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Sixties Student Movement in Canada:
The Importance of Identity
Lisa Pasolli, University of Victoria
‘Talking Day Care Blues’: Child Care Activism in British Columbia in the 1960s
and 1970s

Facilitator / Animatrice: Tamara Myers, University of British Columbia

Co-sponsored by the Canadian Women’s Studies Association and the Canadian
Committee on Women’s History / Coparrainée par l'Association canadienne des
études sur les femmes et le Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes


1:00-2:30 / 13 h 00-14 h 30
Here and There: Travel, Access and Abortion / Ici et là: voyage, accès et
avortement MMH 203

Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa
From Heathrow Airport to Harley Street: Seeking Abortion Services in London,
England, 1961-1975

Beth Palmer, York University
A ‘most adventurous escapade’: Canadian women’s travels to the Montreal
Morgentaler Clinic

Katrina Ackerman, University of Waterloo
‘Not in the Atlantic Provinces’: the abortion debate in New Brunswick, 1980-1987
Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary

‘Get out your woolies and come help elect a good, pro-choice hospital board’:
defending access to abortion in the West Kootenays, British Columbia, 1985-1991
Facilitator / Animatrice: Lori Chambers, Lakehead University

Sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Women’s History / Parrainée par le
Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes