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This year's Tri-University History Conference is on Saturday March 22 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. The conference provides an opportunity for students and faculty at the University of Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier and University of Waterloo. This year's theme is Histories and Communities in celebration of the conference's 20th anniversary.

Call for Papers: the online submission form due February 7, 2014 - we invite individual submissions or panels - or you may indicate your availability to participate as Chair. Please apply and register at: www.triuhistory.ca/conference/

We look forward to your submission and registration and to seeing you in March! Please direct questions to susan.roy@uwaterloo.ca

This year's Tri-University History Conference is on Saturday March 22 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. The conference provides an opportunity for students and faculty at the University of Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier and University of Waterloo. This year's theme is Histories and Communities in celebration of the conference's 20th anniversary.

Call for Papers: the online submission form due February 7, 2014 - we invite individual submissions or panels - or you may indicate your availability to participate as Chair. Please apply and register at: www.triuhistory.ca/conference/

We look forward to your submission and registration and to seeing you in March! Please direct questions to susan.roy@uwaterloo.ca

Our Associate Professor Karen Houle has published (December 2013) Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought (Lexington Books, publisher).

Blurb:  "…draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy. "

Our Associate Professor Karen Houle has published (December 2013) Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought (Lexington Books, publisher).

Blurb:  "…draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy. "

"Bosch & Co? New insights from technical studies of paintings attributed to Hieronymus Bosch"

"Tattooing as Artistic Practice: Histories, Theories and Methods"

Professor Emerita Dr. Donna Andrew has just published a new book: Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England. The book is published by Yale University Press. Congratulations from all of us!

Professor Emerita Dr. Donna Andrew has just published a new book: Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England. The book is published by Yale University Press. Congratulations from all of us!

This week, History and Economics Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dr. J. Andrew Ross is featured on a New York Times panel investigating "Should Democracies Have Monarchs?" Dr. Ross weighs the pros and cons to explain how the monarchy works in Canada. Read the rest of the story at the New York Times.