Past Events

Our next Middle East Scholars Society event will be on Thursday, October 31st: Haley Wilson, MA, Wilfred Laurier University: “The Impossibility of the Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman Empire in Official British First World War Propaganda” The talk takes place at 5:00pm in MacKinnon Building, Room: 237. Everyone is welcome to attend and NO RSVPS are needed! Get the flyer: .pdf

4 rectangular tables reserved from 4pm Oct 31 until noon on Nov 1st.

On Thursday, October 31st Alice J. Hovorka appears at the Rural History Roundtable: “The Lives of Women and Chickens in Botswana: Intersections, Hierarchies, and Everyday Lives." The talk takes place at 2:30 -4:30 pm in 308 MacKinnon Building at the University of Guelph main campus. Dr. Alice J. Hovorka is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on contemporary human-environment relations in Southern Africa and features animals as central actors in human affairs. All welcome!

Everyone is welcome!

7 rectangular tables reserved from 1pm to 4pm.

Free Concert, Everyone welcome. For more information, visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/events

Presented by the History Department. Everyone Welcome!

Free Concert, Everyone welcome. For more information, visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/events

Berlin artist Sonya Schönberger works in video, photography andinstallation to explore questions of memory, identity and trauma especiall y in relation to the impact of WWII on several generations of Germans. In a recent work, she met eyewitnesses from the time of World War II and conduct ed personal interviews with them, exploring the cultural memory of the Germ an society. She followed these witnesses and memory-keepers into the everyda y life of the Third Reich: onto the battlefields, in prison camps, into de vastated cities, on their escapes and into their after-lives.