Past Events

THINC Lab welcomes visiting fellow Tara Bynum of Hampshire College. Dr. Bynum will discuss her new project, a digitization of Cesar Lyndon's account book and will consider what a digital scholarly edition can help us understand about a text and its historical moment.  This event will take place in THINC Lab, room 280, McLaughlin Library.  

Teasing the upcoming “Philosophy of Horror” group for Winter 2019, we will gather to view and discuss the film “It Comes at Night” – a post-apocalyptic tale of fear, uncertainty and trust. Drawing from the political writings of Thomas Hobbes, the artwork of Hieronymus Bosch (“The Garden of Earthly    Delights”)and Eugene Thacker’s exploration of Dante’s Inferno in his book Tentacles Longer Than Night, we might consider several questions. What is the obsession of our culture with films depicting the ‘end of the world’?

Please see our resources page for agenda and any relevant materials for the meeting: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/department-meeting-schedule-and-agendas

Rozanski Hall, Room 101

Come join our German movie night, featuring Young Goethe in Love. Refreshments will be served! 

As a part of Arts Week here on campus, the Guelph Classics Society is running their "Guelphmopylae" event for a second year in a row. Last year, Professor John Walsh wanted to get 300 students together for an epic photograph in the pass between Johnston Hall and MacKinnon to emulate the famed Battle of Thermopylae (as represented in the movie 300) and had a decent turnout but not quite at the magic number. This year they hope to make it all the way and get 300 people in that pass. So, please show up on October 24 at 4:30p.m.

Dr. Froehlich will illustrate how the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary can be used as a resource for harvesting literary-historical vocabulary surrounding specific semantic categories using data from the Oxford English Dictionary. She will apply this vocabulary towards a corpus of 101 plays, covering Shakespeare and a handful of his contemporaries (Dekker, Ford, Jonson, Middleton, and Webster), to observe for early 17th century dramatic writing discusses the language of madness and mental health.