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Exhibition of works from Jerrard Smith (SETS) and Diana Smith

Jerrard Smith (of the School of English and Theatre Studies) and his wife, Diana, are internationally renowned theatre designers.  The Design Gallery of Waterloo’s School of Architecture  (in Cambridge) will host an exhibition of the Smiths’ sets, costumes, masks and puppets from their thirty-year collaboration with R.

Congratulations to University of Guelph Chamber Singers

The group has accepted an invitation from the Mosbach International Competition for Chamber Choirs to perform on April 27th in Mosbach, Germany. Only six choirs are invited; our University choir is the only North American choir participating. Twenty-six singers, and their conductor, Dr.

History: Farm Life Not Always So Idyllic: Dr. Wilson on Ontario Rural History

Quilting bees. Threshing bees. Barn-raisings. Friendly, hard-working neighbours gathering together to get things done. It’s one of those rural traditions that we tend to look back on nostalgically. But there’s another side to these “bees,” says history professor Catharine Wilson. Sometimes, everything went wrong. “There were serious, sometimes fatal, accidents and fights frequently broke out. Some turned into major brawls. I even found information about 16 cases of murder at the bees or right afterwards. She calls them “bees-gone-wrong.”

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Philosophy: Guelph Lecture in Philosophy - Tim Scanlon

Professor T. M. Scanlon will present the 2012 Guelph Lecture in Philosophy: "What is Morality?" on Thursday, March 8,  5:30- 7:00 p.m. in the Academic Public Square, McLaughlin Library.

Philosophy: Philopolis 2012

The 2012 Guelph Philopolis was a festival that manifested how Philosophy engages with every facet of life.  It achieved this through panel discussions, workshops and activities of many kinds. Find out more at the festival website.

Philosophy: Philopolis - A feast of philosophy (March 2-4, 2012)

Philosophy is a field that engages with every facet of life. However, academic philosophy these days could be doing a better job of engaging in dialogue with the public: this requires finding a common language, as well as being explicit about the relevance of the ideas at issue. \

Philopolis is a two-day festival that aims to facilitate just such an exchange through panel discussions, workshops and activities of many kinds. Find out more at the festival website