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:
The School of Languages and Literatures (formerly the Department of Languages and Literatures and Département d’études françaises) invites you to the annual 'homecoming.' Let's celebrate 50 years of languages and literatures at the University of Guelph!
Date: Saturday, September 20, 2014
Time: 5 pm - 7 pm
Location: Faculty Club, 5th Floor, University Centre, North Elevator
Toronto’s reggae roots are explored this weekend with Harbourfront’s Island Soul festivities and the Irie Music Festival (with a ceremonial opening at Nathan Phillips Square on Friday with appearances by acts from the Queen Street West reggae scene in the 1970s and ’80s). We spoke with Juno-nominated reggae-jazz keyboardist and historian Jason Wilson about the city’s Jamaican dance music past.
Read the interview at the Globe and Mail
Professor Kris Inwood's new edited collection has just been published and features insights from Kris' work with the Historical Data Research Unit in the Department. Congratulations from all of us!
from the jacket: Collective histories and broad social change are informed by the ways in which personal lives unfold. Lives in Transition examines individual experiences within such collective histories during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection brings together sources from Europe, North America, and Australia in order to advance the field of quantitative longitudinal historical research.
Read more at McGill Queen's University Press