杏吧原创 to Host Shannon Lecture on the First Two Women Appointed to Canada鈥檚 Supreme Court
杏吧原创 University鈥檚 Department of History will host the Shannon Lecture Feminism and the Supreme Court: How the First Two Women Appointed to Our Top Court Widened Judicial Debates, presented by Prof. Constance Backhouse.
When: Friday, Nov. 8, 2019 at 1 p.m.
Where: Room 252, MacOdrum Library, 杏吧原创
Info: This event is free and open to the public. A campus map is available online.
Media are invited to attend the event.
In this lecture, Backhouse will discuss Bertha Wilson and Claire L鈥橦eureux-Dub茅 鈥 the first two women appointed to Canada鈥檚 top court and the subjects of her recently published work Two Firsts.
Though the two women differed in backgrounds and personalities, they faced nearly identical roadblocks throughout law school and legal practice. As women judges, they were frequently mocked and repudiated. They met this career sexism with courage and fierce tenacity, and are considered icons in Canadian women鈥檚 history.
Backhouse will address challenging questions about their perspectives on feminism and race in an effort to reconsider what full 鈥渄iversity and inclusion鈥 might encompass.
杏吧原创 Constance Backhouse
Backhouse is a professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. Her teaching and research are centered on legal history, criminal law, human rights, feminism and critical race theory. Backhouse鈥檚 writing focuses on historical efforts to dismantle discrimination on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, disability and sexual identity.
杏吧原创 the Shannon Lecture Series
The theme for the 2019 Shannon Lecture series is 鈥渞ebooting biography.鈥 Historical biographies have always been a popular avenue into the past, but with the facts about the famous and not so famous available at the tap of a keyboard, today鈥檚 historians and biographers are reshaping the genre. The conventional chronology of a life is giving way to group biographies, micro-histories and previously unheard voices. Increasingly, authors are embracing the freedom offered by digital publishing.
Lecturers will discuss the subjects of their recent biographies and the choices they made in presenting their material.
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