{"id":942,"date":"2013-03-15T03:24:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mile-end.qc.ca\/?p=942"},"modified":"2013-12-27T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T03:21:07","slug":"conference-les-autres-femmes-de-montreal-assemblee-generale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/conference-les-autres-femmes-de-montreal-assemblee-generale\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Montreal&#8217;s &#8220;Other&#8221; Women \/\u00a0Annual General Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong><em>Montreal\u2019s \u2018Other\u2019 Women: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Saint-Laurent Boulevard as a Gendered Space of Difference<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Lecture by <strong>Julie Podmore<\/strong> presented in collaboration with\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amisboulevardstlaurent.com\/?lang=en\">Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation examines the role played by gender in construction of Saint- Laurent Boulevard as 20th-century Montreal\u2019s \u2018space of difference\u2019. The \u2018Main\u2019 was a discursive axis through which ideas about identity and space in the city were repeatedly debated. While it has primarily been interpreted as a multicultural space, the intersections between gender and socio-cultural diversity have been central to its definition as the city\u2019s space of difference.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Podmore is an urban social geographer who researches the history of Montreal&#8217;s gendered and queer spaces. She is the Chair of the Geosciences Department at John Abbott College and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University. She studied these questions in her thesis: <em>St. Lawrence Blvd. a<\/em><em>s Third City: Place, Gender and Difference Along Montr\u00e9al\u2019s &#8216;Main&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her talk, in English, will be followed by a question period in both languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 24 March, 2013<\/strong> at the <strong>Rialto Theatre<\/strong>, 5723 avenue du Parc, at <strong>2 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MME-affiche.130324.JuliePodmore-lowres.pdf\">Poster (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Followed by the <strong>annual general meeting<\/strong> of Mile End Memories, at <strong>3:30<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MME-odj-AGA-130324.pdf\">Proposed agenda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MME_bilan_2012.pdf\">Financial statements 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Upcoming Activities \u2013 Spring 2013<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Saturday 6 April: Wikipedia and Mile End<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is one of the most consulted web sites on the planet. Several existing articles are devoted to its history and its institutions. How can we improve this content? What additions would be most useful? Are there additional sources of \u00a0images that could be put to use?<\/p>\n<p>Members of the (French-language) Wikipedia Qu\u00e9bec committee will be present for this activity which will consist of participatory workshops divided among themes of interest.<\/p>\n<p>At the <strong>Mile End Library<\/strong>, 5434 avenue du Parc, at <strong>1 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sunday 5 May: Jane&#8217;s Walks<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The year 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of <\/em><em>Mile End Memories<\/em>. We are pleased to offer once again one of our original walking tours and one of the most popular, on the religious heritage of the neighbourhood. On this occasion, several founding members of\u00a0<em>MEM <\/em>will be present to lead the tour.<\/p>\n<p>Details to be announced!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Montreal\u2019s \u2018Other\u2019 Women: Saint-Laurent Boulevard as a Gendered Space of Difference Lecture by Julie Podmore presented in collaboration with\u00a0Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard. This presentation examines the role played by gender in construction of Saint- Laurent Boulevard as 20th-century Montreal\u2019s \u2018space of difference\u2019. The \u2018Main\u2019 was a discursive axis through which ideas about identity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}