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History: Shauna Devine is 2015 Cassidy-Reid Lectureship Speaker
"Making Medicine Scientific: The Civil War and American Medicine"
Please join us for the first Cassidy-Reid Lecture in American History. It will take place Tuesday October 6th, 7pm Whitelaw Room B, McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph. The speaker is the award-winning historian of medicine and the American Civil War, Dr. Shauna Devine of the Western University.
Reception to follow.
Get the poster .pdf
Shauna Devine is 2015 Cassidy-Reid Lectureship Speaker
"Making Medicine Scientific: The Civil War and American Medicine"
Please join us for the first Cassidy-Reid Lecture in American History. It will take place Tuesday October 6th, 7pm Whitelaw Room B, McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph. The speaker is the award-winning historian of medicine and the American Civil War, Dr. Shauna Devine of the Western University.
Reception to follow.
Get the poster .pdf
History: Alumni Speak about their Careers with a History Degree
The History Department is happy to announce the Fall 2015 Gateway Seminar. History Alumni, Stephanie Hodge (law) and Jessica Murphy (IT industry) will talk about their career paths and the value of their history degrees.
Date: Thursday 5 November 2015
Time: 6:00- 7:30
Location: Mackinnon Rm 231
All History students welcome!
Pizza & Pop will be provided!
Get the flyer .pdf
Alumni Speak about their Careers with a History Degree
The History Department is happy to announce the Fall 2015 Gateway Seminar. History Alumni, Stephanie Hodge (law) and Jessica Murphy (IT industry) will talk about their career paths and the value of their history degrees.
Date: Thursday 5 November 2015
Time: 6:00- 7:30
Location: Mackinnon Rm 231
All History students welcome!
Pizza & Pop will be provided!
Get the flyer .pdf
History: Centre for Scottish Studies Fall Colloquium
Mark your calendars! The Centre for Scottish Studies Fall Colloquium will take place on Saturday, September 26!
This year's colloquium will feature presentations from:
Ewen Cameron (University of Edinburgh), presenting the Jill McKenzie Memorial Lecture;
Allan Kennedy (University of Manchester), winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize, 2015;
Michael Newton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), launching his new book Seanchaidh na Coille / The Memory-Keeper of the Forest
Debra Nash-Chambers (Wilfrid Laurier University).
Location: The Robert Whitelaw Room (room 246) of the University of Guelph Library
Time: The Colloquium will run from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; on-site registration will be available from 9:30 a.m. in the Library lobby.
Parking: Nearby visitor parking lots on campus are P44 (access from College Ave East) and P31 (access from South Ring Road). Detailed directions to these and other campus parking lots can be found here: www.parking.uoguelph.ca/find-parking
Online registration is now available! Registration is $30 for Scottish Studies Foundation members and for early-bird registrants on or before September 18; the price increases to $35 for non-SSF registrants after that date. A student rate of $10 is available. As always, lunch and coffee break refreshments are included in the registration price. For more information, or to register online, visit www.uoguelph.ca/scottish/events/fall. If you have any questions, please contact us at scottish@uoguelph.ca. Get the poster .pdf
We look forward to seeing you at the Colloquium on September 26!
Centre for Scottish Studies Fall Colloquium
Mark your calendars! The Centre for Scottish Studies Fall Colloquium will take place on Saturday, September 26!
This year's colloquium will feature presentations from:
Ewen Cameron (University of Edinburgh), presenting the Jill McKenzie Memorial Lecture;
Allan Kennedy (University of Manchester), winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize, 2015;
Michael Newton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), launching his new book Seanchaidh na Coille / The Memory-Keeper of the Forest
Debra Nash-Chambers (Wilfrid Laurier University).
Location: The Robert Whitelaw Room (room 246) of the University of Guelph Library
Time: The Colloquium will run from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; on-site registration will be available from 9:30 a.m. in the Library lobby.
Parking: Nearby visitor parking lots on campus are P44 (access from College Ave East) and P31 (access from South Ring Road). Detailed directions to these and other campus parking lots can be found here: www.parking.uoguelph.ca/find-parking
Online registration is now available! Registration is $30 for Scottish Studies Foundation members and for early-bird registrants on or before September 18; the price increases to $35 for non-SSF registrants after that date. A student rate of $10 is available. As always, lunch and coffee break refreshments are included in the registration price. For more information, or to register online, visit www.uoguelph.ca/scottish/events/fall. If you have any questions, please contact us at scottish@uoguelph.ca. Get the poster .pdf
We look forward to seeing you at the Colloquium on September 26!
NEW BOOK
SETS professor Jennifer Schacker has just published a co-edited collection with Wayne State University Press: Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws: Fairy-Tale Beasts. For more information go to http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/feathers-paws-fins-and-claws
ACCOLADES FOR GILBERT PLAY
In August Sky Gilbert's play Naked Hamilton was a hit at the FringeNYC -- TimeOut calling it a "charming 60 minute gem." Naked Hamilton will go on to be performed at Fringe Encore (the best of the New York City and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals) in October.