W.L. Morton Graduate Seminar
Dr. Amanda Ricci leading session on transnational feminist histories
Event Details
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
City: Peterborough
Traill College
Building: Scott House
Room: Senior Common Room
Cost: free
This graduate seminar will explore transnational feminist histories, with a small reading list that will be sent to registered attendees to prepare for the conversation.
This seminar will follow Dr. Ricci's presentation of the W.L. Morton lecture on Monday, March 17 at 6 pm in the Lady Eaton Lecture Hall (room 201): Making and Unmaking the Nation: Feminist Challenges from Montreal.
As refreshments and lunch will be served, it is kindly requested that registered attendees please let us know in advance if their availability changes to avoid wastage, and to offer the spot in the seminar to an individual who might be on a waitlist to attend.
Dr. Amanda Ricci is an associate professor of history at York University. She is the author of Countercurrents: Women’s Movements in Postwar Montreal (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) and has written extensively about the history of feminism in Canada. Her most recent project addresses the history of the garment industry in Montreal (1930-1990).
The W.L. Morton Community Lecture is in honour of W.L. Morton, the Canadian historian and former Master of Trent's Champlain College. This year’s talk is presented through the collaboration of The School for the Study of Canada / École d’études canadiennes, The Colleges of Trent University, The Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies and Trent’s departments of History and of Gender and Social Justice.