Our final event of our tenth season is coming up! Building on last year’s “Poking the (Academic) Bear” we present a follow up evening of experiments with autoethnography Autoethnography is an approach to research that positions the researcher at the heart of the research process. What can the autobiographical offer? What insights might be possible… Continue reading Still Poking the (Academic) Bear
The Blue Castle and the Saltwater Stories Research Project present The Things We Keep Conversations about Migrations, Memories, and Stories Join us for an interactive conversation about the things we keep. When we travel we leave bits of ourselves behind at every turn. But we also bring bits of ourselves along with us on… Continue reading The Things We Keep
Coming on the heels of our discussion about Twitter and feminism is an evening about women’s understandings of gender, place, labour, and housework in St. Lunaire-Griquet. Kayla Carroll, a PhD student in Folklore, joins us to share some insights from research she undertook in her home community. A Good Clean Women: Housework in St. Lunaire-Griquet… Continue reading A Good Clean Woman
Our first event for 2016! VOCM journalist and MUN graduate student Zaren Healey White joins us to talk through the ins and outs of online feminist activism. We hope you can join us for Tweeting Feminism:
Join Blue Castle co-founder, Sonja Boon, to celebrate the launch of her new book! We invite you to join us for a reading, nibbles, and conversation. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Want a bit of a preview about the process of writing the book? Have a look here. Telling the Flesh:… Continue reading Telling the Flesh: A Book Launch
The Blue Castle: Conversations on Women, Culture, and the Spaces of the Imagination with Equal Voice NL and the Provincial Advisory Council on the Status of Women present Politics is No Place for a Woman: An Election Special Two elections in Newfoundland and Labrador this Fall – the federal election in October, and then, just… Continue reading Politics is No Place for a Woman: An Election Special
We are plotting and planning and planning and plotting…. and here are some hints of where we’re headed in this, our eighth (!) season of presentations and events! feminisms, activisms and social media gender and politics (it’s election year!) new nudes in contemporary visual art the possibilities and limitations of coalition building between Indigenous and… Continue reading 2015-2016
The Blue Castle: Conversations on Women, Culture and the Spaces of the Imagination and The Department of Gender Studies, MUN present Truths are Written on their Skin: Tattoo Stories in St. John’s Join researchers Gina Snooks and Gloria Hickey for a roundtable discussion of tattooing practices, meanings, and stories. Gloria and Gina will share insights… Continue reading Truths are Written on their Skin: Tattoo Stories in St. John’s
Suzanne Sexty, MUN Honorary Research Librarian, joins us to discuss the work of the Dorcas Society. In Sexty’s words: “In 1824 Sarah Ward organized the first Dorcas Society in Newfoundland. The women of the Society were primarily from the upper middle class and provided for the poor, mainly widows and women with young children. The… Continue reading The Dorcas Society: The Fruit of Her Hands
In 1944, Barbara Mundy Groves went to Labrador to work for six months with the Grenfell Mission. Three years later, she was married to a fur trapper and on her way up the Grand (Churchill) River to spend the winter with him on his trapline. Anne Budgell, author of Dear Everybody, will talk about finding… Continue reading If Tarzan was a Labrador fur trapper and Jane was from Manhattan….
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