College News

Wednesday November 21 at 1:30 in Alexander 100

Nathalie Solomon is a professor of French Literature at the Univ ersité de Perpignan – Via Domitia, France and is currently a visiting schol ar in the School of Language and Literatures at the University of Guelph. L ecture in English. Open to the Public.

A Vancouver artist, Tiziana graduated from the School of Fine Art and Music Master of Fine Art program in 2013.  Her winning piece was an oil on board entitled Hanging on to the Part.  Four other U of G SOFAM alumni were also finalists in this competition, Ashleigh Bartlett, Jennifer Carvalho, Wallis Cheung and James Gardner.  

Read more about Tiziana's win at http://canadianart.ca/news/2014/10/01/rbc-winner-announcement/

Kyle Bromhall, now in our PhD program, has won the 2014 College of Arts Sessional and CLA [Contractually Limited Appointment] Teaching Award, for his performance as Instructor in PHIL 2100, Critical Thinking (Winter 2012 and Winter 2014).  Congratulations Kyle, on your excellent teaching!

Rural History Roundtable Speaker Series - Fall 2014

We have another great lineup this season! Mark your calendars and please join us for talks by
Elizabeth Jewett: “Cultivating the Course: Golf Course Knowledge and Technology in Canada, 1873-1945”
Ken Sylvester: “Making Green Revolutions: Kansas Farms, Recovery and the New Agriculture, 1918-1981”
Ben Bradley: "Food, Gas, Lodging, and More: The Roadside Economy in Rural British Columbia, 1920-1960"
Jon Weier: “The Soldiers of the Soil and YMCA War Work in Rural Canada during the First World War”

get the poster .pdf or see our events feed

The 2014 Scottish Studies Fall Colloquium will be held at the University of Guelph, UC 103 on October 4 from 9.30am to 4.30pm. This year, the Jill McKenzie Lecture will be given by Professor Michael Lynch, Emeritus Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh and we will also feature a lecture by Ken McGoogan, author of "How Scots Invented Canada," among other lectures.

Registration for the Colloquium can be done online through https://www.uoguelph.ca/scottish/events/fall or in person on the day of the Colloquium (from 9am to 9.30am). Do contact us for more information at scottish@uoguelph.ca

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The 2015 Tri-University History Conference takes place March 7 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario. Our theme this year: War, Memory, and Commemoration.

The conference features a keynote address by Sir Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College, Oxford, UK.

Paper proposals from graduate students, emerging and established scholars welcome. Please send inquiries or proposals (200 - 300 words) to Darren Mulloy at dmulloy@wlu.ca by Nov. 7, 2014. All proposals should be accompanied by a brief (50 words) biographical note.

Some suggested topics, although papers will not be limited to these: the centenary of World War I; the politics of remembrance; technology and commemoration; the culture of warfare; education and nationalism; home fronts; transnational perspectives 

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Karen Houle is the inaugural Eastern Comma Writer-in-Residence Fall 2014.  From the announcement by the Musagetes Foundation: