A public talk by Dr. Joan Sangster, Vanier Professor Emeritus, Trent University. A reception with cash bar will follow the talk. For catering purposes, please register.

Dr Joan Sangster is Vanier Professor Emeritus at Trent University and a past president of the Canadian Historical Association/Société historique du Canada. She is an award-winning author of multiple articles, books, and collections on gender, labour, and feminist history, including One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada; Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada; and The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada.

Sponsored by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (SFU), the Department of History (SFU), and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (SFU), in partnership with UBC Press.

Representatives from UBC Press will make copies of Dr. Sangster’s current book Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism (UBC Press, 2021) available for purchase at the event.