Please have a look at this fascinating programme for the SWAAN Workshop for April 29-May 1, 2026
SWAAN Workshop Programme
Maritime History Archive, MUN
| Wednesday, April 29 | ||||||||||||
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| Newfoundland Women & Stories | ||||||||||||
| Eastern | NL | UK | CEST | |||||||||
| 7:00 AM | 8:30 AM | 12:00 PM | 13:00 | Arrival at Maritime History Archive | ||||||||
| 7:15 AM | 8:45 AM | 12:15 PM | 13:15 | Welcome to MUN and the MHA from SWAAN Leader Dr. Julia Stryker | ||||||||
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | 12:30 PM | 13:30 | Session 1.1 – Dr. Vicki Hallett, Memorial University of Newfoundland | Trouble with Women, Cod, and Archives: Multispecies Entanglement in NL’s Colonial History | |||||||
| 8:30 AM | 10:00 AM | 1:30 PM | 14:30 | Break | ||||||||
| 8:45 AM | 10:15 AM | 1:45 PM | 14:45 | Session 1.2 – Zara Money, University of Exeter: | Global Fishwives: Finding Evidence of Women in the Early Modern Maritime Economy | |||||||
| 9:45 AM | 11:15 AM | 2:45 PM | 15:45 | Break | ||||||||
| 10:00 AM | 11:30 AM | 3:00 PM | 16:00 | Keynote Address – Dr. Julia Laite, Birkbeck Univesity of London: | Shanawdithit’s Canoe and Other Stories: Beothuk Women and Newfoundland’s Maritime History | |||||||
| 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | 4:00 PM | 17:00 | Lunch | ||||||||
| 12:15 PM | 1:45 PM | 5:15 PM | 18:15 | Session 1.3 – Dr. Valerie Burton, Memorial University of Newfoundland Emeritus And Dr. Meaghan Walker, Independent Scholar | A Turn in the Tide of Gender: The Newfoundland Shipmaster, the New Era Feminist and a Maritime History Archive Collection | |||||||
| 1:15 PM | 2:45 PM | 6:15 PM | 19:15 | Break | ||||||||
| 1:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 6:30 PM | 19:30 | Tour and History at the Maritime History Archive | ||||||||
| 3:30 PM | 5:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 21:30 | End of the Day | ||||||||
| Thursday, April 30 | ||||||||||||
| Women’s Labour & Danger at Sea | ||||||||||||
| Eastern | NL | UK | CEST | |||||||||
| 7:00 AM | 8:30 AM | 12:00 PM | 13:00 | Arrival at Maritime History Archive | ||||||||
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | 12:30 PM | 13:30 | Session 2.1 – Alexandre Yingst, University of Iceland | Characteristics of a Society at Sea: An In-depth Look at Labor, Gender, and Mobility iceland | |||||||
| 8:15 AM | 9:45 AM | 1:15 PM | 14:15 | Break | ||||||||
| 8:30 AM | 10:00 AM | 1:30 PM | 14:30 | Session 2.2 – Dr. Eliška Bujoková, Universities of Glasgow and New Brunswick | The Female Captive in the Anglo-French Wars of the Eighteenth Century | |||||||
| 9:15 AM | 10:45 AM | 2:15 PM | 15:15 | Break | ||||||||
| 9:30 AM | 11:00 AM | 2:30 PM | 15:30 | Session 2.3 – Dr. Seth Stein LeJacq, City University of New York, Hunter College | Hidden Crimes: Sexual Violence and Britain’s Navy in the Age of Sail | |||||||
| 10:15 AM | 11:45 AM | 3:15 PM | 16:15 | Lunch | ||||||||
| 12:15 PM | 1:45 PM | 5:15 PM | 18:15 | Session 2.4 – Dr. Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg | Enslaved Women’s Work in a Maritime Community | |||||||
| 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 6:00 PM | 19:00 | Break | ||||||||
| 1:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 6:30 PM | 19:30 | Visit to the QEII Library Archive & Special Collections w. Michaela Doucette | ||||||||
| 3:30 PM | 5:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 21:30 | End of the Day | ||||||||
| Friday, May 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maritime Economic and Emotional Labour | ||||||||||||
| Eastern | NL | UK | CEST | |||||||||
| 7:00 AM | 8:30 AM | 12:00 PM | 13:00 | Arrival at Maritime History Archive | ||||||||
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | 12:30 PM | 13:30 | Session 3.1 – Hannah Gibbons, University of Exeter | The Lure of Capital: Women and Enterprise in Eighteenth-century Thames-side London | |||||||
| 8:15 AM | 9:45 AM | 1:15 PM | 14:15 | Break | ||||||||
| 8:30 AM | 10:00 AM | 1:30 PM | 14:30 | Session 3.2 – Margot J. Dixon, Independent Scholar | Winnifred May Robbins Goudey (1878-1958) and her Nova Scotian Seafaring Family | |||||||
| 9:15 AM | 10:45 AM | 2:15 PM | 15:15 | Break | ||||||||
| 9:30 AM | 11:00 AM | 2:30 PM | 15:30 | Session 3.3 – Lisa Wojahn, University of Exeter | Martial Femininity: Women’s Labor in Advancing the Professional Success of the Royal Navy Officer Husbands in the Long-nineteenth Century | |||||||
| 10:15 AM | 11:45 AM | 3:15 PM | 16:15 | Lunch | ||||||||
| 12:15 PM | 1:45 PM | 5:15 PM | 18:15 | Session 3.4: Dr. Kristof Loockx, University of Antwerp | Coping with Absense in the Age of Steam: What Maritime Households Add to Gender, Labor and Family History | |||||||
| 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 6:00 PM | 19:00 | Transportation to the Rooms | ||||||||
| 1:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 6:30 PM | 19:30 | Visit to the Provincial Archives at the Rooms w. Ellen Power | ||||||||
| 3:30 PM | 5:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 21:30 | End of the Day | ||||||||
The link to register is here, and you can register for in-person or online attendance
