Recently, Tri-U students held their annual election. Aidan Hughes, PhD candidate at Guelph, Brian Gibbs, PhD student at Laurier, and Vera Zoricic, PhD candidate at Waterloo became the 2025-26 co-presidents. They organize events and encourage community-building among Tri-U students. Check out their bios.
The DRAGEN Lab is proud to announce that the C.A.M.E.L.O.T. (Conference on Archaeology, The Medieval, and Experiential Learning of Tomorrow) Conference has returned, and will be held at St. Jeromes University in Waterloo, Ontario! Join them on 21st September, 2025 as C.A.M.E.L.O.T. is re-awakened!
Megan Blair, successfully defended her thesis entitled, "Teenage Feminists: High School Students and the Women's Movement in Ontario, 1968-1980," on Wednesday, May 28 at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation was accepted "as is and without any revisions."
Congratulations, Dr Blair!
Join the inaugural Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership Lecture delivered by Professor Robert Dunbar, University of Edinburgh on Zoom.
Gaelic has been spoken for perhaps 1,500 years or more in Scotland, and for over 250 years in what is now Canada. Many Scots are not aware of how widely spoken Gaelic once was in Scotland, and most Canadians are unaware of the fact that at the time of Confederation, Gaelic was likely the third most widely-spoken language in Canada.
Dr. Jamie Zettle successfully defended his dissertation on April 30, 2025, at Waterloo. Entitled "Evidence of an Emerging Homosexual Subculture during World War II in Case Studies of Queer Clandestine Agents," Zettle's work traces the uneven emergence of a distinct homosexual subculture during World War II through case studies of two queer clandestine agents operating in France from the Special Operations Executive and the United States Army Military Intelligence organization.
Sara Wilmshurst, first-year PhD student at the University of Guelph, discusses the value of her volunteer experience with the online journal, Active History.
Dr. Geoff Bird presents his new film, Ways We Remember War: The Battle of Second Ypres and Canada’s Memory, exploring how art, memorials and pilgrimage shape our understanding of Canada’s first battle of the First World War. Lt. Col. John McCrae is represented in the film, along with artwork from the Canada War Museum, the Brooding Soldier in Belgium, and the landscape of war in Flanders.
Join DRAGEN Lab for an in-person lecture by Dr. Brian D. Lewis from McGill University. George Cecil Ives (1867-1950) was a scion of the English gentry, a sexologist and a criminologist who founded a clandestine “gay rights” organization, the Order of Chaeronea, in the 1890s. More significantly for the historian, he wrote a massive diary, observing and chronicling a sexual revolution: the period when new categories of sexual and gendered identity crystallized in a complex interplay between emerging sexological science and queer subjects. This paper aims to capture the Ivesian bricolage, in context, during this time of momentous change.
The Canadian Military History Colloquium is the largest gathering of military historians in Canada, bringing together academics, students, independent scholars and members of the public to share the latest work in Canadian military history and war and society.
Dr. Eric Vero successfully defended his dissertation on February 11 at Waterloo. It was entitled "Freaking Fans: An Oral History of Disability in Fan Spaces."