Edging Forward, Acting Up: Gender and Women's History at the Cutting Edge of Scholarship and Social Action
Edging Forward, Acting Up: Gender and Women's History at the Cutting Edge of Scholarship and Social Action is the upcoming conference of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History/Comité canadien d'histoire des femmes (CCWH-CCHF). Held at Simon Fraser University's beautiful downtown campus, at the Centre for Dialogue, the conference will run from 12-15 August 2010.

The conference program crosses national boundaries, with sessions on women's and gender history in Canada, the United States, Japan and Great Britain. Themes are wide-ranging, including social policy, art history, literature, activism, the law, pedagogy, health, religion and sexuality, and participants include academics, scholars, teachers, public historians, visual artists and community activists.

Please join us for the conference and for a series of special events, including:

Keynote: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba. "Terms of Reference and Endearment; the Global, the Local and the Writing of Gender and Women's History."

Plenary sessions: Celebrating the work of influential feminist historians Jean Barman, Andrée Lévesque, and Veronica Strong-Boag

Panel: "Absence, Silence, Action and Voice in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside." Panel and presentation featuring the work of artist/activist Pamela Masik, and including residents and activists from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Free to the public.

Play: "Ribbon," written and performed by Patricia Darbasie. This play tells the story of Alberta's turn-of-the-century black history through the lives and stories of two women. Free to conference participants, $5 general admission.

For further information on the program, registration, and Vancouver accommodation, see our website at:

http://www.chashcacommittees-comitesa.ca/ccwh-cchf