a one day conference in Canadian studies

Friday 24 February 2006
Canada House, Trafalgar Square

Organized by
London Conference for Canadian Studies
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Institute for the Study of the Americas

9:25
Welcoming remarks from the High Commission

Session 1
9:30 – 10:45
How spaces get gendered

Maureen Flanagan, Michigan State University
“The workshop of the home: Conflicting visions of the urban built environment in North America”

Robert C H Sweeny, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“Property and gender: Lessons from a nineteenth-century town”

Coffee
10:45 – 11:15

Session 2
11:15 – 12:30
Sex in the City

Valerie Korinek, University of Saskatchewan
“Having a gay old time in Winnipeg? Gender and sexual histories of a Prairie city”

Aurora Wallace, New York University
“The geography of girlwatching in postwar Montreal”

Lunch: 12:30 – 1:30

Session 3
1:30 – 2:45
Gender at Work and in Play

Craig Heron, York University
“Boys will be boys: Working-class masculinities in a factory town, 1890-1940”

Steve Penfold, University of Toronto
“A bevy of beauties, scantily clad: Re-gendering urban parades in twentieth-century Canada”

Tea
2:45 – 3:10

Session 4
3:10 – 4:40
Keynote Address
Shirley Tillotson, Dalhousie University
"Gender, Justice, and the Emotions of Obligation: a view from the 1950s"

Comfort Break
4 :40 – 4 :45

Session 5
4:45 – 6:00
Writing the Gender of Canadian Cities

Linda Knowles, Independent Researcher, Southampton
“Kronk City: Canadian cities in the novels of Carol Shields”

Ceri Morgan, Keele University
“Spectacular sexualities on la Sainte-Catherine”

6:00 – 7:00
Reception

7:00 –
Dinner

For registration information visit the website or contact Olga Jimenez at Olga.Jimenez@sas.ac.uk or on +44 (0) 20 7862 8871.