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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/history/events/mackinnon-dinner-2025
LOCATION:STJ - St. Jerome's University 290 Westmount Road North SJ2 Academi
 c Center Atrium Waterloo ON N2L 3G3 Canada
SUMMARY:MacKinnon Dinner 2025
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Named in honour of the late Dr. Hugh MacKinnon (\"Father Hugh\"
 )\, the\nMacKinnon Dinner is an annual event organized by the History Soc
 iety\n[https://uwaterloo.ca/history/node/10]\, and a primary social event 
 for\nall members of the department.\n\nThis year's event will be held on M
 arch 14\, 2025\, in the SJ2 Academic\nCenter Atrium at St Jerome's Univers
 ity - 290 Westmount Rd N\,\nWaterloo\, ON N2L 3G3. Doors open at 5 PM with
  opening remarks starting\nat 5:45 PM. Dr. Rebecca MacAlpine\, a History D
 epartment alumna\, will\nbe this year’s guest speaker. Dr. Rebecca MacAl
 pine's talk is\ntitled: Shaming and Blaming: The Process of Proving Patern
 ity in\nSeventeenth Century Somerset.\n\nOver the course of the seventeent
 h century\, 1298 women came before the\nSomerset Quarter Sessions to secur
 e financial resources for the upkeep\nof their unborn children. In these r
 ecords\, we find marginalized\nvoices of women silenced first by their exp
 eriences with the alleged\nfathers of their children and then by the court
 s whose objective was\nto avoid economic responsibility under the new Poor
  Laws of 1576. As a\nresult\, this process ensured that women’s voices w
 ere present but\nultimately silenced. This talk will explore how we can us
 e Quarter\nSession records to uncover the lived experiences of unwed mothe
 rs in\nearly modern Somerset. It will highlight how the procedural mechani
 sms\nembedded in the Sessions further victimized unwed mothers and\nrepres
 ents a form of institutionalized gender-based violence.\n\nTickets for stu
 dents are priced at $25 and non-student tickets are\n$35.
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