History Seminar Series explores gender and superstition

Join us this Friday March 7 at 2:30 p.m. in Room A252 as the History Seminar Series welcomes Mr. Ian Laplante and his presentation "'Fire Walk with Me': Gender, Superstition and the Tragedy of Bridget Cleary."The paper explores the meaning of the 1895 murder of an Irish woman, Bridget Cleary, by her husband, who claimed she was a changeling. Mr. Laplante, a graduate of Nipissing's BA and MA programs, is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on the Cleary case in the Department of History at York University in Toronto.
?The talk is free of charge, and coffee and tea will be provided.