Past Events

On October 4, 2013, PhD candidate Patricia Bowley will defend her PhD thesis: "A Century of Soybeans: Scientific Research and Mixed Farming in Agricultural Southern Ontario, 1881-1983." The defence takes place at 9:00am in 132 MacKinnon Extension. All welcome! Get the abstract .pdf

Email ckroetsc@uoguelph.ca for a reading list. Free registratio n, email: khanneso@uoguleph.ca http://www.dhsi.org

Philopolis Guelph 2013:  October 4-6 Philopolis is a festival that aims to facilitate philosophical exchange through panel discussions, workshops and activities of many kinds. Multiple concurrent sessions held throughout the two-day festival, totalling about forty activities, release a collective brainstorm of critical mass. Admission is absolutely free, and no registration is required.  www.guelph.philopolis.net

Short Abstract: Let the qualitative agential profile of a thought be the strongest qualitative intrinsic property of the system consisting of the thought and the agent who thinks it. Thus, e.g., the qualitative agential profile of the thought you express by ‘Water is wet’ is the same as that of the corresponding thought your doppelganger on Twin Earth expresses by the same (or sound-alike) words.

COLLOQUIUM PAPER PRESENTATION Jodey Nurse: The Erin Fall Fair “Showed What the Thrifty Wives of Erin Could Do”: Women’s Participation at Agricultural Fairs in Ontario, 1850-1974”. The colloquium takes place Thursday, October 3, 2013 from 1:30 – 3:30 in 132 Mackinnon on the University of Guelph main campus. All welcome!

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

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

PhD candidate: Joe Arel Time: 1:15 - 3:30 p.m. Thesis title: The Intimate Practice of Self-Knowing in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit ALL ARE WELCOME

The Studio Art Visiting Artists & Speakers program is pleased topresent an illustrated talk by Thomas Nozkowski at the University of Guelph . The drawings and paintings of Thomas Nozkowski present a highly imaginati ve and endlessly inventive cast of abstract visual elements that play out inan evocative yet causally suspended pictorial narrative. His work is repre sented in the most distinguished art collections worldwide, from MoMA and t he Metropolitan Museum in New York to the Irish Museum of Modern Art and theNational Gallery of Canada.

The Studio Art Visiting Artists & Speakers program is pleased topresent an illustrated talk by Thomas Nozkowski at the University of Guelph . The drawings and paintings of Thomas Nozkowski present a highly imaginati ve and endlessly inventive cast of abstract visual elements that play out inan evocative yet causally suspended pictorial narrative. His work is repre sented in the most distinguished art collections worldwide, from MoMA and t