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Why We Worry About What We Eat

Catherine Carstairs says that questioning the health aspects of our diet has been increasingly common since the 1970s, but the roots of these concerns go back at least a few more decades. She’s recently been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to travel to the University of California’s (UC) Davis campus, where she’ll explore the lives of two American writers who made the idea of “health food” popular in the mid-1900s... 
          See the rest of this feature article in At Guelph Magazine
 

History: Tri-University History Conference, Oct. 16

This year's Tri-U History Conference takes place in the Arts Lecture Building at the University of Waterloo. Our focus this year, "Cold War Encounters," coincides with the recent creation of the Cold War History Field at the Ph.D. level and spotlights an exciting diversity of a global scholarship.

Tri-University History Conference, Oct. 16

This year's Tri-U History Conference takes place in the Arts Lecture Building at the University of Waterloo. Our focus this year, "Cold War Encounters," coincides with the recent creation of the Cold War History Field at the Ph.D. level and spotlights an exciting diversity of a global scholarship.

History: Jodey Nurse MA Thesis Defence Sept. 30

Jodey Nurse's M.A. thesis defence, "Reaching Rural Ontario: The County of Peel Agriculture Society and teh Peel County Fall Fair, 1853-1883," will take place on September 30 in MacKinnon Extension room 132 from 10:00am-12:00pm. All welcome! Get the abstract: (.pdf)

Jodey Nurse MA Thesis Defence Sept. 30

Jodey Nurse's M.A. thesis defence, "Reaching Rural Ontario: The County of Peel Agriculture Society and teh Peel County Fall Fair, 1853-1883," will take place on September 30 in MacKinnon Extension room 132 from 10:00am-12:00pm. All welcome! Get the abstract: (.pdf)

History: David Bussell MA Thesis Defence Sept. 21

David Bussell's M.A. thesis defence, "Policy, Advocacy and the Press: Economic Nationalism in Southern Ontario 1968-1974," will take place on September 21 in MacKinnon Extension room 2020 from 1:30 - 3:00pm @ the University of Guelph campus. All welcome! Get the abstract: (.pdf)

David Bussell MA Thesis Defence Sept. 21

David Bussell's M.A. thesis defence, "Policy, Advocacy and the Press: Economic Nationalism in Southern Ontario 1968-1974," will take place on September 21 in MacKinnon Extension room 2020 from 1:30 - 3:00pm @ the University of Guelph campus. All welcome! Get the abstract: (.pdf)