Past Events

University of Guelph's Rural History Roundtable Speakers' Series is proud to present another semester of original and engaging talks. All welcome! Tuesday, Jan 21, 7:00- 9:00 pm: Matt Elder, “‘Every Man his Own Doctor’: Illness, Suffering, and Disease Management in Rural Ontario, 1858-1870." Matt is a graduate of the M.A. History program at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on agricultural commodities in rural Ontario and the history of disability.

"'Every Man his Own Doctor': Illness, Suffering, and Disease M anagement in Rural Ontario, 1858-1870"

~~ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES ~~ HISPANIC STUDIES PRESENTS       Starring Brian Gordon Sinclair as Ernest Hemingway CREATED AND PERFORMED BY BRIAN GORDON SINCLAIR MacKinnon Building, George Luscombe Theatre

Fundraiser for students in Latin America and Caribbean Studies M aster's program to attend WEFLA conference in Holguin, Cuba in April 2014. nSuggested donation $10 students; $20 general admission. For more informa tion please contact Rosario Gomez rogomeza@uoguelph.ca

On January 17 at 12:30pm in 2020 MacKinnon Extension Matthew Piper will defend his Master's Degree Major Research Paper: "'Working Towards the Fur': The Allure of the Nazi Animal and Nature Protection Laws in Nazi Germany and War-Torn Europe." All Welcome! Get the abstract.

"Rights and Worlds: On the Political Significance of Belonging" Everyone Welcome! Refreshments will follow at University Club. For more information contact Dr. Karen Houle - khoule@uoguelph.ca

On January 15, 2014 in MacKinnon room 132, beginning at 11a.m., the Scottish Studies program presents the Third Annual St. Andrew's Society of Toronto Lecture entitled: "Scots in the Sub-Arctic: Musical Exchanges with the James Bay Cree." Fiddle music and dancing form a major component of the social lives of the Cree population living in the James Bay region of sub-Arctic Canada.