"Feminine Woman With the Brain of a Man" : Gertrude Laing, Solange Chaput-Rolland and the Intellectual Engagement of Women in Canada’s Sixties".
24 January 2017
The Department of History & Classics presents a Talk by:
Valerie Lapointe-Gagnon”Feminine Woman With the Brain of a Man" : Gertrude Laing, Solange Chaput-Rolland and the Intellectual Engagement of Women in Canada’s Sixties”.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
3:00 - 5:00 PM
RM 2-58 HM Tory
**Coffee available & Everyone welcome
Valérie Lapointe-Gagnon is an assistant professor of history and linguistic rights at University of Alberta, Campus Saint-Jean since July 2015. Before she was appointed at Campus Saint-Jean, she was a SSRHC post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at York University under the supervision of Marcel Martel. She is interest in Canadian and Quebec contemporary history, intellectual history and political history. Her research explores the place of women in the Canadian political and intellectual history during the sixties. More specifically, she is interested in the trajectory of Gertrude Laing, who was the only women among the commissioners at Laurendeau-Dunton Commission. Her Ph. D. dissertation entitled « Penser et ‘panser’ les plaies du Canada : le moment Laurendeau-Dunton » focused on the intellectual history of a noteworthy commission of inquiry in the history of Canada, the Royal Commission on Bilinguism and Biculturalism, which redefined the linguistic rights landscape in Canada. Her Ph. D. dissertation was finalist for the Jean-Charles Bonenfant prize at National Assembly of Québec. She received the Jean-Charles Bonenfant prize for her master dissertation.
