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History: Prof. Emeritus Terry Crowley Awarded Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
The Department's own Dr. Terry Crowley has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his services to the community. The medal will be given at a Guelph Arts Council ceremony in the Fall of 2012. Congratulations from all of us!
Prof. Emeritus Terry Crowley Awarded Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
The Department's own Dr. Terry Crowley has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his services to the community. The medal will be given at a Guelph Arts Council ceremony in the Fall of 2012. Congratulations from all of us!
Eden Mills Writers' Festival 2012
In Conversation with
JIAN GHOMESHI
Saturday September 15, 2012 at 4pm
Rozanski Hall room 104, University of Guelph
General Admission: $10/ticket; Students $5/ticketTickets
available at the door or in advance at www.ticketpro.ca or
The Bookshelf, 41 Quebec Street, Guelph
History: Matthew Hayday featured in National Post on Congress of Humanities and Social Science
Oh, The Humanities!: Canada’s Language Czars Losing their Voice
By Kathryn Blaze Carlson for the National Post, May 30, 2012
Matthew Hayday remembers singing along to Angele Arsenault’s Bonjour, My Friend as it spun on his Fisher Price record player as a child. His parents had brought the album home for him, along with a bilingual boardgame he used to play with his sisters.
The record and the boardgame were both part of an educational kit called Oh! Canada, produced by the country’s first Commissioner of Official Languages and doled out for free somewhere in the order of two million copies. It was 1974 — five years after prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s government passed the Official Languages Act and enshrined Canadians’ rights to access government services in the language of their choice. The act tasked the commissioner with protecting the status of both English and French and, most explicitly, with conducting investigations into language-related complaints. (Read the story)
Matthew Hayday featured in National Post on Congress of Humanities and Social Science
Oh, The Humanities!: Canada’s Language Czars Losing their Voice
By Kathryn Blaze Carlson for the National Post, May 30, 2012
Matthew Hayday remembers singing along to Angele Arsenault’s Bonjour, My Friend as it spun on his Fisher Price record player as a child. His parents had brought the album home for him, along with a bilingual boardgame he used to play with his sisters.
The record and the boardgame were both part of an educational kit called Oh! Canada, produced by the country’s first Commissioner of Official Languages and doled out for free somewhere in the order of two million copies. It was 1974 — five years after prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s government passed the Official Languages Act and enshrined Canadians’ rights to access government services in the language of their choice. The act tasked the commissioner with protecting the status of both English and French and, most explicitly, with conducting investigations into language-related complaints. (Read the story)
MFA Graduate Candidate Receives First Commission for St. George's Square Bus Shelters
When the City of Guelph opened the new inter-modal transportation terminal on Carden Street on May 13, 2012, the bus shelters within St. George's Square received a new look. MFA graduate candidate Ella McGeough received the first commission to transform the look of these shelters from advertising boards to showcasing art work. Her series is called "Bon Voyage" and will remain in place until the end of August.
Watch the video - kitchener.ctv.ca/
History: History Post-Doc hosts: "Bees to Beef: Animals in Environmental History" - CHESS 2012
History Post-Doc hosts: "Bees to Beef: Animals in Environmental History" - CHESS 2012