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This talk explores the many interconnections between public and private spheres in late-Victorian Canadian culture. Although the political domain is often considered separate from the domestic, sites like Lougheed House show how spatial arrangements, furnishings, and embellishments, as well as domestic rituals and functions have political significance. As the residence of a prominent politician in early Calgary, this house had both private and public functions. Nielson’s session will reflect on the multiple political meanings attached to the domestic sphere when Lougheed House was first designed and built.
Carmen Nielson is a Professor of History in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta. She is the author of Private Women and the Public Good: Charity and State Formation in Hamilton, Ontario, 1846-93 (UBC Press, 2014) and recipient of the 2015 Hilda Neatby Prize for the best English-language article published in Canada on women’s and gender history. Her work has been published in Gender & History, Women’s History Review, and Canadian Historical Review. She is currently writing a book about gender and politics in Grip magazine, which was an illustrated humour periodical published in Toronto in the 1870s and 1880s.
Thursday, November 6
Doors at 6:45 pm
Talk at 7:00 pm
FREE, Registration Required
Light refreshments will be provided.
This talk explores the many interconnections between public and private spheres in late-Victorian Canadian culture. Although the political domain is often considered separate from the domestic, sites like Lougheed House show how spatial arrangements, furnishings, and embellishments, as well as domestic rituals and functions have political significance. As the residence of a prominent politician in early Calgary, this house had both private and public functions. Nielson’s session will reflect on the multiple political meanings attached to the domestic sphere when Lougheed House was first designed and built.
Carmen Nielson is a Professor of History in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta. She is the author of Private Women and the Public Good: Charity and State Formation in Hamilton, Ontario, 1846-93 (UBC Press, 2014) and recipient of the 2015 Hilda Neatby Prize for the best English-language article published in Canada on women’s and gender history. Her work has been published in Gender & History, Women’s History Review, and Canadian Historical Review. She is currently writing a book about gender and politics in Grip magazine, which was an illustrated humour periodical published in Toronto in the 1870s and 1880s.
Thursday, November 6
Doors at 6:45 pm
Talk at 7:00 pm
FREE, Registration Required
Light refreshments will be provided.