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This week Dr. Susan Nance is interviewed in a piece on VICE, "Ringling Bros. Elephant Sanctuary is Hardly a Paradise." The story explains the nature of and controversy over the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circuses' decision to retire the company elephants and keep them at a facility in Florida in which the animals will be bred with artificial insemination and employed in cancer research. 

In an interview with Peter Holslin, Nance explains why the future of these particular elephants is so hotly contested, and the history of public interest in the lives of the elephant population in North America. 

Read the story at VICE.

There is a new publication in the book series edited by Daniel Fischlin from Duke University Press and associated with ICASP: https://www.dukeupress.edu/negotiated-moments

HIST*1050 Invitation to History is a new, mandatory course for all first year History majors and minors. 

Invitation to History introduces students to the basics of the historian’s craft including interpreting primary sources, locating and critically analyzing secondary sources and writing for History. It will provide you with the tools you need for success in your History major, minor or area of concentration. Choose any one of the following four classes. 

Fall 2016 - Hist*1050*01  Licit and Illicit Drugs   (instructor: Dr. Catherine Carstairs)
This course will examine the history of the use of licit and illicit drugs across the world, and examine why some have been forbidden and others permitted. 

Fall 2016 - Hist*1050*02  Polar Encounters   (instructor: Dr. Alan Gordon)
This course will trace the history of northern American exploration, including the mysteries of the disappearance of the Franklin and Hudson expeditions, as well as encounters among various peoples in the North and between people and the environment.

Winter 2017 - Hist*1050*03  Crime and Culture   (instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Ewan)
This course will study criminal acts such as homicide, witchcraft, theft and slander and how they were defined and prosecuted in past centuries, and the class will employ historical court records to recover the experiences of people in the past.

For more, visit our First Year Courses page

HIST*1050 Invitation to History is a new, mandatory course for all first year History majors and minors. 

Invitation to History introduces students to the basics of the historian’s craft including interpreting primary sources, locating and critically analyzing secondary sources and writing for History. It will provide you with the tools you need for success in your History major, minor or area of concentration. Choose any one of the following four classes. 

Fall 2016 - Hist*1050*01  Licit and Illicit Drugs   (instructor: Dr. Catherine Carstairs)
This course will examine the history of the use of licit and illicit drugs across the world, and examine why some have been forbidden and others permitted. 

Fall 2016 - Hist*1050*02  Polar Encounters   (instructor: Dr. Alan Gordon)
This course will trace the history of northern American exploration, including the mysteries of the disappearance of the Franklin and Hudson expeditions, as well as encounters among various peoples in the North and between people and the environment.

Winter 2017 - Hist*1050*03  Crime and Culture   (instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Ewan)
This course will study criminal acts such as homicide, witchcraft, theft and slander and how they were defined and prosecuted in past centuries, and the class will employ historical court records to recover the experiences of people in the past.

For more, visit our First Year Courses page

The Council of Ontario Universities has named the research on the Sanders portrait of Shakespeare headed by SETS professor Daniel Fischlin as one of its top 50 game changing research undertakings in Ontario over the last 100 years:

http://yourontarioresearch.ca/game-changer/revealing-identities/

http://www.guelphmercury.com/opinion-story/6251373-shakespeare-yet-lives...

Congratulations to SETS PhD student Gregory Shupak, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on May 22, 2015.

Congratulations to Alexa Gilker, Nicole Chin, Justina Elias, Andrew Kaufman, Jules Lewis, Nikolai Ostonal, Andrea Perry, and Nick Tooke, who all successfully defended their MFA Creative Writing theses this summer!

For those interested in early modern studies and digital humanities, Prof. Mark Kaethler will be leading a course in which students will have the opportunity to partake in the creation of a digital edition of a Lord Mayor’s Show. Students will receive recognition as contributors or creators, will be able to devise their own readings, and will have the opportunity to apply cultural approaches that suit their individual research interests.