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 This year the Department is pleased to offer four undergraduate research assistant positions to qualified candidates:

Revisiting the Historiography of Nigeria-Biafra War 44 Years After
- Supervisor Dr. Femi Kolapo

Hitchhiking: Canadian Youth and Travel
- Supervisor Dr. Linda Mahood

The Crown, the Court and the Casa da India: Political Centralization in Portugal 1480-1520
- Supervisor Dr. Susanna Ferreira

Transatlantic Dimension of the Revolutionary Republic of East Florida, 1817-1818
- Supervisor Dr. Karen Racine

Applications due February 4. For more information on these projects and how to apply, visit our Job Postings.

As part of the History and Sociology/Anthropology Food Series, on Thursday January 24th, Dr. Catherine Carstairs, the Department of History and the College of Arts are proud to present a talk by Dr.Wendy Mitchenson, Canada Research Chair in Gender and Medical History at the University of Waterloo:

"Fighting Fat: Canadian Obesity History"

The talk takes place in MacKInnon 132 from 12:00 to 1:30pm.
All welcome!
For more information contact Dr. Carstairs: ccarstai@uoguelph.ca
Get the flyer: .pdf
 

 

As part of the History and Sociology/Anthropology Food Series, on Thursday January 24th, Dr. Catherine Carstairs, the Department of History and the College of Arts are proud to present a talk by Dr.Wendy Mitchenson, Canada Research Chair in Gender and Medical History at the University of Waterloo:

"Fighting Fat: Canadian Obesity History"

The talk takes place in MacKInnon 132 from 12:00 to 1:30pm.
All welcome!
For more information contact Dr. Carstairs: ccarstai@uoguelph.ca
Get the flyer: .pdf
 

 

A Nabob's Progress: Graphic Satire and British Imperial Excess

Tuesday January 29 ^th

5:00 pm

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

Lecture room

Reception to follow

   

6pm Alexander Hall Rm.100 (NEW LOCATION!)

ALL WELCOME - FREE ADMISSION

Working as artist, curator, and writer, Luis Jacob's diverse practice addresses issues of social interaction and the subjectivity of aesthetic experience.

Dr. Susan Nance has just published her latest book documenting the history of animal management in the American circus, Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).

from the jacket: Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior—drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications—to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of animal behavior, Nance asserts, we can more fully explain the common history of all species.

Dr. Susan Nance has just published her latest book documenting the history of animal management in the American circus, Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).

from the jacket: Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior—drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications—to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of animal behavior, Nance asserts, we can more fully explain the common history of all species.

 WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY 23, 2013 - 12:00PM reading

 A world-renown author, Kim Echlin lives in Toronto where she teaches at the University of Toronto and works as a freelance writer of film/television documentary. Her novel, The Disappeared (2009, was the winner of the 2011 Barnes and Noble Discovery award, long listed for the Dublin IMPAC award, and 2009 nominee for The Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was translated and released in 16 foreign territories. 

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CALL FOR PAPERS  Tri-University Conference:

New Approaches to History

March 23, 2013

Deadline: January 18, 2013

The Tri-University conference is a wonderful opportunity for students and faculty to get to know each other, to share ideas, and debate the latest developments in our field. This year, the Tri-University conference will take place at the University of Guelph. The theme is “New Approaches to History” and to this end, we are featuring a keynote panel with three fantastic historians from the Tri-University.

CALL FOR PAPERS  Tri-University Conference:

New Approaches to History

March 23, 2013

Deadline: January 18, 2013

The Tri-University conference is a wonderful opportunity for students and faculty to get to know each other, to share ideas, and debate the latest developments in our field. This year, the Tri-University conference will take place at the University of Guelph. The theme is “New Approaches to History” and to this end, we are featuring a keynote panel with three fantastic historians from the Tri-University.