October 7, 2005 Source: Laurentian University of Sudbury:
http://www.laurentian.ca/?file=newsrelease/2005/oct/oct7_womens_history_week_e.php Womens History Week to feature education historian On October 17 and 18, Laurentian University will celebrate its 12 th Annual Women's History Week. The featured speaker will be Dr. Mona Gleason, professor of educational studies at the University of British Columbia . During her visit to Laurentian, Dr. Gleason will present three public lectures. She will speak on "Revisiting Normalizing the Ideal: New Questions, New Interpretations," on Monday, October 17, at 1:30 p.m., in room T-260 of Thorneloe University . That same evening, at 7 p.m. , she will present "Beyond Disciplines Questions: Interdisciplinarity and the Promise of Educational Histories" in the Brenda Wallace Reading Room, located in Laurentian's J.N. Desmarais Library. On Tuesday, October 18, at 11:30 a.m. , Dr. Gleason will speak on "Contested Bodies of Knowledge: Children in Sickness and Health in English Canada, 1900-1960" in the Upper Fraser Auditorium (FA-056), located in Laurentian's Fraser Building. The three lectures are free and are open to the public. A history of education professor at the University of British Columbia since 1999, Dr. Gleason completed her PhD in history at the University of Waterloo . Specialized in the history of education, she teaches the history of childhood, social construction of ‘normalcy,' social scientific discourses in the 20 th century Canada , gender and sexuality, as well as the history of the body. Her research has focused on the history of children and youth from a feminist perspective. She is the coeditor of the following books: Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History (2002, Oxford University Press, 4 th edition) with Veronica Strong-Bog and Adele Perry; and Children, Teachers, and Schools in the History of British Columbia (2003, Detselig Press, 2 nd edition) with Jean Barman. Dr. Gleason is currently working on a manuscript tentatively entitled "Contested Bodies of Knowledge: Children in Sickness and Health." Funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the research explores how Canadian children, between 1900 and mid century, learned to be healthy, and how illness and disease was dealt with by teachers, conventional medical experts, and parents. Women's History Week, created in 1992, encourages greater awareness among Canadians of the historical contributions of women to society, and recognizes the achievements of women as a vital part of Canada 's heritage. Its goal is to write women back into Canadian history and to develop a better understanding of the diverse roles women play in contemporary society. Women's History Week activities at LU are sponsored by the University's Office of the Vice-Presidents, Academic; the Deans of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Professional Schools ; the Departments of History, Psychology, and Sociology; the School of Education (English Language); the M.A. in Humanities; the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Status of Women; and Thorneloe University 's Women's Studies Program. For more information, please contact Laurentian University's Department of History at (705) 675-1151, ext. 4202. Reference:
Paul de la Riva
Public Affairs
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Ontario
(705) 675-1151, ext. 3406
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