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On Wednesday, February 4, four Philosophy alumni with careers in different areas of law come to campus to talk with Philosophy students.  Please join us!  5:30 pm in MacKinnon 114.  (more information)

Wednesday February 11, 2015
12:35pm, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
358 Gordon St, Guelph, ON
Join us for a public talk:

Beastification and the Human

Our Winter 2015 Newsletter is now out! Thanks again to our Newsletter editor, Dr. Femi Kolapo, and all our contributors who keep us in the loop with their accomplishments and events. If you have news for future issues - let us know!

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Our Winter 2015 Newsletter is now out! Thanks again to our Newsletter editor, Dr. Femi Kolapo, and all our contributors who keep us in the loop with their accomplishments and events. If you have news for future issues - let us know!

Get the Newsletter .pdf.

from @Guelph

Hatching the Cowbird’s Egg: The Creation of the University of Guelph, a book commemorating the University’s 25th anniversary in 1989, is now available as an e-book through the Internet Archive.

Written by David Murray, a retired U of G history professor and former dean of the College of Arts, and published by the University of Guelph, the book chronicles the formal creation of the university in 1964 and the contributions and obstacles faced by those involved in the transformation of three colleges into a university. Visit the digitized version of the Hatching the Cowbird’s Egg at the Internet Archive.

from @Guelph

Hatching the Cowbird’s Egg: The Creation of the University of Guelph, a book commemorating the University’s 25th anniversary in 1989, is now available as an e-book through the Internet Archive.

Written by David Murray, a retired U of G history professor and former dean of the College of Arts, and published by the University of Guelph, the book chronicles the formal creation of the university in 1964 and the contributions and obstacles faced by those involved in the transformation of three colleges into a university. Visit the digitized version of the Hatching the Cowbird’s Egg at the Internet Archive.

Next time you ride a Toronto Subway,
keep an eye out for Theo Bakker's 60 second film,JUMP.

This summer the Department offers the following Research Assistantships:

Dear Diary Archive: Discover and Transcribe Rural Ontario’s Past, Research Assistant and Social Media Coordinator, Supervisor Dr. Catharine Wilson

Childhood Origins of Adult Health, Supervisor Dr. Kris Inwood

Gender, Sexuality and Propaganda in Late Medieval Europe, Supervisor Dr. Christine Ekholst

Morality and Health: The Health League of Canada, Supervisor Dr. Catherine Carstairs

For more information on these projects and how to apply by February 2, 2015, visit our job postings page

This summer the Department offers the following Research Assistantships:

Dear Diary Archive: Discover and Transcribe Rural Ontario’s Past, Research Assistant and Social Media Coordinator, Supervisor Dr. Catharine Wilson

Childhood Origins of Adult Health, Supervisor Dr. Kris Inwood

Gender, Sexuality and Propaganda in Late Medieval Europe, Supervisor Dr. Christine Ekholst

Morality and Health: The Health League of Canada, Supervisor Dr. Catherine Carstairs

For more information on these projects and how to apply by February 2, 2015, visit our job postings page

Call For Papers: Artifacts in Agraria Symposium
University of Guelph, 17-18 October 2015

A pottery jug, rag rug, handmade nightdress, coal-oil lamp, plow, buggy, barn…. Some experiences of the agrarian past have escaped being put into language but survive long after the period under study as artifacts.

We invite proposals that begin with a material artifact of everyday life, either made or used, and explore it as a valid historical source that gathers meaning when understood in the context of surviving written records, family history, fashion trends and international commerce. How is the artifact conceived and used by particular groups? How does it connect aesthetic and cultural beliefs, symbolize self-identity, affirm values, tell stories, purvey heritage and have meaning ascribed to it through display? We encourage papers that provide a better understanding of rural life in and beyond Canada, and that explore new methods or ways of viewing and contextualizing artifacts. Though organized by historians, we welcome ethnologists, archaeologists, art historians, cultural geographers, museum professionals and connoisseurs.

Please submit a 400 word proposal and 1 page CV to C. Wilson, cawilson@uoguelph.ca
For more information visit: www.uoguelph.ca/ruralhistory/
Deadline for proposals is 26 January 2015.

Sponsored by the Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History