Past Events

Jessie Thomson is the Senior Director of Program Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at CARE Canada. Jessie holds an Honours BA degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science degree in International Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

This lecture series will be taking place in conjunction with FREN*3160. Guest lecturer Professor Alain Thomas will be speaking at this event.

Struggle with bibliographies? Always looking for that resource that you read last week but didn't download? Join Kim Martin for an introduction to Citation Management tools.  This workshop will take place in THINC Lab, 2nd floor, library.  

Bring your lunch to THINC Lab, Library Room 280, and join us for a fun and friendly discussion, lead by Julie Cairnie of SETS. All are welcome!

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’?