Dr. Sarah Glassford teaches History at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, and is co-editor (with Dr. Amy Shaw) of a volume of essays on the history of Canadian and Newfoundland women and girls during the First World War.
Amy Shaw is interested in the connections between perceptions of gender and citizenship in wartime. She is the author of Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War and, with Sarah Glassford, editor of a collection examining the activities and representations of Canadian and Newfoundland girls and women during WWI

Glassford, Sarah

Shaw, Amy

English

Scholarship@Western

The Great War: From Memory to History  10 November 2011 1800-1900 – Registration Gunnery Ballroom.   1900-2100 – Reception Gunnery Ballroom. Chair Jonathan Vance The University of Western Ontario Elizabeth Kemp Baker Collateral Damage Anne Hume Brothers in the Great War  11 November 2011 0730-0830 – Breakfast/Registration Officers Mess.  0830-1000 – Plenary Session, Gunnery Ballroom. Roundtable Discussion – The Great War and Education Chair Jonathan Vance The University of Western Ontario Laura Fasick Minnesota State, Moorhead Wars Change but Trauma Remains Robert Cupido Mount Alison University Keeping the Myth Alive: The Great War in the Canadian Classroom Amy Mc!all London Central Secondary School Laura Fraser  1000-1200 – No sessions Municipal Remembrance Day service, Victoria Park.  1200-1245– Lunch Gunnery Ballroom.  1245-1400 – Concurrent Session 1 - Salon A/B  Indigenous Memories Chair Whitney Lackenbauer University of Waterloo, St Jerome’s University Timothy Winegard The University of Western Ontario  Canadian Indians and the Great War for Civilization Katherine McGowan University of Waterloo  Question of Caste and Colour: #ative Women and the First World War Scott Sheffield University of the Fraser Valley The Great War and the Shaping of Indigenous Reponses to the Second World War in Australia, Canada, #ew Zealand and the United States 1245-1400 – Concurrent Session 2 - Salon C/D Heroes Chair Brandon Dimmel The University of Western Ontario Thomas Hodd Université de Moncton The Writer-Soldier as Historian: Charles G.D. Roberts, the CWRO, and the Canada in Flanders series Robert Morley University of Saskatchewan Constructing the “Ace”: Feature Films in the Interwar Period and the Great War in the Air Donna Coates University of Calgary Brenda Walker’s Challenge to the Anzac Legend in her Great War #ovel The Wing of Night 1400-1415 – Break             1415-1530 - Concurrent Session 3 - Salon A/B Case Studies in Canadian Memory Chair Tracy Ware Queen’s University William Stewart University of Birmingham  History Trumps Memory: The Strange Case of Sir Richard Turner Martin Loeschnigg University of Graz  “Lest We Forget”: Remembering the First World War in Contemporary Anglo-Canadian Fiction Zachary Abram University of Ottawa Canon Fodder: Canadian Canonicity, the Erasure of Great War narratives and the Self Conscious Re-invention of Canadian Cultural Identity 1415-1530 - Concurrent Session 4 - Salon C/D Mementos  Chair Andrew Iarocci The University of Western Ontario Mark A. R. Facknitz James Madison University Kitsch and the Arrest of Collective Mourning Alicia Robinet The University of Western Ontario ‘We Shall Keep the Faith’: The Semiotics of the Poppy in Great War Verse and Contemporary Commemoration Joanna Scutts Columbia University Battlefield Tours, Battlefield Tourists: Then and #ow 1530-1545 – Coffee Break  1545-1700 - Concurrent Session 5- Salon A/B Healing Narratives  Chair Carroll Iwasiw The University of Western Ontario Alice Kelly University of Cambridge ‘Every day and every night, for a long time, some one died’: Representations of Death in #urses’ #arratives of the Great War  Carol Acton University of Waterloo, St Jerome’s University Kitchener’s Tourists’: voices from wartime hospital ships Sarah Glassford University of Ottawa and Amy Shaw University of Lethbridge A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Writing Canadian and #ewfoundland Women and Girls Back Into the First World War 1545-1700 - Concurrent Session 6 - Salon C/D White Colonies Chair Francine McKenzie The University of Western Ontario Geoff Keelan University of Waterloo The Forgotten Few: French Canadians and the Great War Richard Grayson Goldsmiths, University of London. Ireland and the Great War: Memory, History and Politics Jane McGaughey Royal Military College of Canada Men of Suvla: The Legacy of Gallipoli in Ireland and #ewfoundland 1900 – Dinner and Plenary Address Gunnery Ballroom Terry Copp, !ick Lachance, Matt Symes Wilfrid Laurier University Canadian Battlefields 1915-1918: A Visitor's Guide               12 November 2011 0800-0900 – Breakfast/Registration - Officer’s Mess. 0900-1015 – Concurrent Session 7 - Salon A/B Imagining Friends and Allies Chair Brock Millman The University of Western Ontario Dan Bullard York University  ‘Loyal until Death:’ African Veterans’ Memory of War Service: 1919-1943 Brian MacDowall York University  ‘Loyal and Civilized’: Aboriginal Soldiers, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the Production of a Collective Memory, 1916-1940 Kris Radford York University The Chamber of Princes: The Great War and the Contested Vision of India’s Future 0900-1015 – Concurrent Session 8 - Salon C/D Memory Re-Imagined Chair Kirsty Robertson The University of Western Ontario Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz University of Warsaw The Great War in Popular Detective Fiction Michele Wijegoonaratna Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Otto Dix and the Great War: Reality, Memory and the Construction of Identity in the portfolio War of 1924 Maggie Atkinson Memorial University, Grenfell Campus Visions of ‘Blighty’ 1015-1030 – Coffee Break  1030-1200 - Concurrent Session 9 - Salon A/B Memory Outside the Nation Chair Charles Mackenzie The University of Western Ontario Veysel Simsek McMaster University From “Backstabbing Arabs” to “Deserting Kurds”: Reading nationalism through Turkish accounts of World War I Patricia Rae Queen’s University  ‘I Sing of My Comrades’: Reconsidering the Elegies of The Great War and the Spanish Civil War Wolfram Dornik Graz Universitat The experience of the First World War in Eastern Europe by Austro-Hungarian soldiers 1030-1200 - Concurrent Session 10 - Salon C/D Painful Legacies Chair Chris Schultz The University of Western Ontario Kerry !eale University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy  With tin noses and copper moustaches: post-war experiences of disfigured Great War veterans in Britain and the Dominions Kellen Kurschinksi McMaster University Broken Bodies and Shattered #erves: Remembering and Forgetting the Disabled Soldiers of Canada’s Great War Amy Tector Library and Archives Canada Limping Heroes: The Static Representation of disability in Canadian Great War Fiction 1200-1300 – Lunch - Gunnery Ballroom.  1300-1415 – Concurrent Session 11- Salon A/B Remembering Big Events  Chair Manina Jones The University of Western Ontario Clare Rhoden University of Melbourne The Big Bang Theory: Australia Starts at Gallipoli Paul Miller University of Birmingham, Centre for First World War Studies; and McDaniel College Yugoslav Eulogies:  Remembering the Sarajevo Assassination Amelia  Lubowitz The University of Western Ontario Continued Commemorations: Twenty-First Century Representations of the Vimy Monument in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers and the Canadian War Museum 1300-1415 – Concurrent Session 12 - Salon C/D From Diaries to Memories  Chair Kristine Alexander The University of Western Ontario James Hurst The Australian National University As Free From Truth As A Frog From Feathers:Interpreting personal narratives of the Gallipoli Campaign, Anzac, 1915 Bart Ziino Deakin University ‘Dad’s War Diaries’: Family remembering and the Great War James Wallis University of Exeter Scales of Remembrance: Amateur Genealogy and the First World War   1415-1430 – Break   1430-1545- Concurrent Session 13 - Salon A/B Rediscovering Memories Chair Alicia Robinet The University of Western Ontario Rebecca Borden University of Maryland, College Park The Great War 1.0: Rediscovering the Wartime Fiction of H.G. Wells and Ford Madox Ford Bette London University of Rochester The #ames of the Dead: Shot at Dawn and the Politics of Remembrance Mary G. Chaktsiris Queen’s University Silencing the Guns? Bridging Public and Historical Debates about the Great War in Canada 1430-1545 - Concurrent Session 14 - Salon C/D Memory in America Chair Jonathan Weier The University of Western Ontario Kimberly LaMay University at Albany A Story Untold:  The Failure of State War Histories Edward Gutiérrez University of Hartford Faded Memories and Shaky Pens: Doughboys Remember the Great War in a Country that Forgot Mary Osborne University of Kentucky Agents of Remembrance: The American Legion’s Role in the Origins of Indiana’s War Memorial, 1919-1925 1545-1600 – Coffee Break –   1600-1730 - Concurrent Session 15 - Salon A/B Alternate Memories Chair David Darby The University of Western Ontario Tony Fong  University of Toronto Silent Memorials: The Great War in Hemingway's A Moveable Feast Dennis Duffy University of Toronto The Strange, Second Death of Lewis R. Yealland !ick Milne University of Ottawa The War that #ever Was: Alternate Histories of the Great War 1600-1730 - Concurrent Session 16 - Salon C/D  Rebuilding the Peace Chair Richard Holt The University of Western Ontario Wesley Gustavson The University of Western Ontario Sanity and Self Control: The IWGC and the promotion of Peace and Empire John Matchim Memorial University of Newfoundland A thoroughly reliable man: The struggle to find a place in post-war #ewfoundland and Labrador Rebecca Campbell The University of Western Ontario The View From Vimy Ridge 1900 – Dinner and Plenary Address - Gunnery Ballroom Mark Connelly University of Kent - ‘Let us die manfully for our brethren’: Commemorating the Battle of the Falkland Islands, December 1914  

A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Writing Canadian and Newfoundland Women and Girls Back Into the First World War

https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/mem2hist/Program.pdf

A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Writing Canadian and Newfoundland Women and Girls Back Into the First World War

Abstract

Similar works

Full text

Available Versions

Scholarship@Western