Hanna & Me:  Passing on the flame

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 7–10 pm

Segal Graduate School of Business, SFU
Room 1200, 500 Granville Street Vancouver

The lecture is free and open to the public. As seating is limited, please reserve your seat here: REGISTER

Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington’s lecture will trace the lives of her grandparents Hanna and Francis Sheehy Skeffington, who were feminists, nationalists, pacifists, socialists in early 20^th century Ireland.  Hanna was jailed several times for suffrage activities, Francis for his pacifist speeches against recruitment during WWI.  Francis was murdered by a British firing-squad during the Easter Rising in 1916, and Hanna embarked on a journey round the USA with their 7-year-old son, Owen to tell the truth about what happened to her husband and about British militarism in Ireland. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington’s public lecture in Vancouver will describe her grandparents' lives and their role in Irish political life, leading up to and including Hanna's epic US tour in 1917/18.

Gender Equity? In Irish Universities?

Thursday, November 9, 2017,
2–5 pm

AQ 5067, Ellen Gee Room,
SFU Burnaby

No registration required for seminar.

Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, is a plant ecologist recently retired from the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). She took a gender discrimination case against NUI Galway to the national Equality Tribunal. Making headlines in a landmark decision, the Tribunal ruled in her favour in November 2014, pointing to multiple failures in the promotion procedure that echo barriers faced by female academics elsewhere. Micheline donated her compensation money to help five other female lecturers in challenging their promotion decisions, and to support broader national and international movements for social justice. Please join us for this unique opportunity to share talk and strategy about gender equity in Irish and Canadian universities.