Events - 2015

It's the last event of the term! Join the History Society for the annual Profs v. Students Trivia showdown, this year at the Heuther Hotel's Boardroom at 7:00pm.

Wear your ugliest holiday sweater!

Movie Night is this Thursday 19 November at 7pm in the Reading Room. Take a break from Week 10 crunch time with FREE pizza, popcorn, and soft drinks. The movie will be 1990s classic Forrest Gump.

Have you heard about the Arts Majors Reset, coming in Fall 2016? Not sure what it means for you?

Come out to the Reading Room (HH 117) for a drop-in information session about the options you'll have and the potential benefits to you!

Academic Advisor Professor Roberts and administrative coordinator Anne will be on hand to answer your questions about the changes.

Heading out on the research highway? This librarian says: "Head for the ditch!"

Join us for an engaging presentation by acclaimed Cree playwright, author, and musician Tomson Highway. Tomson will draw from his wealth of knowledge of Canadian and Indigenous literature, theatre and music, language and world travel, and much much more!

Tomson Highway enjoys an international career as playwright, novelist, and pianist/songwriter. His best-known plays are The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, and The (Post) Mistress. His best-selling novel is Kiss of the Fur Queen.

Global, Colonial, and Transnational Paths: Thinking through Francophone Spaces in World War II and Beyond

Guest Lecture by Professor Eric Jennings, University of Toronto

"The French colonial edifice, like so many others, was an empire of exceptions, achieved by slow aggregation.  If we take up Frederick Cooper’s invitation, itself inspired by James Scott, to 'think like an Empire,' then we also have to grapple with the differentiation that empires presented, and its legacies."

Can you imagine a game in which the act of doing history – of collecting and interpreting evidence and constructing narratives – is both the goal and the reward? Can there be a game which actually gets students to explore museums, libraries, and heritage sites on their own time? And would students actually want to play it? A few historians at Western University set out to try to make one. Timothy J. Compeau, PhD candidate at Western, discusses his experiences in the last History Speaker Series talk of 2014-15.

Transpacific Currents: Chinese Restaurants and the Movement of Labour and Capital during Chinese Exclusion, 1915-1943

Tickets on sale now!

In honour of Father Hugh MacKinnon, the History Society presents the 31st Annual MacKinnon dinner.

This event takes place on Friday 6 March 2015 at Golf's Steak House in Kitchener. Cocktails start at 6:00pm and dinner served at 7:00pm. Dress is formal!

Come along and enjoy a pizza lunch with us!

Are you interested in majoring in History? Or would you like to find out more about declaring a History minor?

The History Department will be hosting a Declare your History Major Information Session to help you get started!

Join us on 12 February for the first History Speaker Series event of the Winter 2015 term, From Nicholas Nickleby to High School Graduate: Hockey, Education, and Canadian boys, 1945-1967, presented by J. Andrew Ross, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Guelph.