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.
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.
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.”
Read the whole story by Teresa Pitman @Guelph
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.”
Read the whole story by Teresa Pitman @Guelph
Visit our job postings page to see the available positions and applications procedures:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/job-postings
Applications due by February 4, 2012.
Visit our job postings page to see the available positions and applications procedures:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/job-postings
Applications due by February 4, 2012.
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. Find out more about the talk and Dr Scanlon's work.
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.
Unfortunately Dr Scanlon's lecture has been cancelled due to illness.
New PhD students in social and political philosophy whose dissertations touch on ethical issues related to globalization are eligible to receive additional funding ($1,000 - $3,000) from the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change. For additional information please contact Monique Deveaux.