Past Events

On Wednesday, January 16, PhD candidate Nicholas Van Allen will present his colloquium paper: "On the Farm, in the Town, and in the City: A Farmer’s Life and Community in Middlesex County, 1850s-1908." The presentation is in MacKinnon 132 from 2-4pm on the University of Guelph main campus. All welcome! Get the flyer: .pdf

CBSSC will have exclusive use of the Science Complex Atrium duri ng their event.

Features esteemed Canadian jazz historian and former Globe & Mai l columnist, Mark Miller, speaking about "A digressive review of 35 years of jazz journalism". Free Event, everyone welcome.

MA student: Christian Stevens Time: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Thesis Title: Physicalism and Its Prospects ALL ARE WELCOME

Wade Cormack will defend his M.A. Thesis, "Little Red and Black Books: Black's and Murray's Guidebooks to Scotland, 1850 to 1914," at 10a.m. on January 7, 2013 in 2020 MacKinnon Extension. All welcome! Get the abstract: .pdf

The History Dept. of the College of Arts presents: Dr. Gabriel Piterberg, from UCLA , speaking on: "Comparative settler colonialism and comparative literature in conversation" This talk is a close, yet contextual, reading of two pairs of literary texts: autobiographical novels by Albert Camus and S. Yizhar; and short stories by Camus and Amos Oz. On this basis a conversation is created between the field of comparative settler colonialism on the one hand, and comparative literature on the other. Reciprocal insight is gained: the