Current students

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Fear and Fatigue Fort Churchill and Canada's Arctic Soldiers in the Early Cold War

The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada invites you to a hybrid lecture by Dr. Matthew Wiseman. In this talk, Dr. Wiseman will discuss his recent book, Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945-1970, that investigates the most challenging issue of Canadian defence in the postwar Arctic: the human body.

Join Dr. Stephen Sherlock in an exploration of archeological sites in Northeast Yorkshire from the Neolithic period to the Roman arrival. Dr. Sherlock partners with DRAGEN Lab, a research project partner in the Tri-U.

Thursday, October 17, 2024 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, November 12, 2024 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Rural History Roundtable Speaker Series Fall 2024

Rural History Speaker Series for Fall 2024

  • Thursday, 26 September, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Rebecca Beausaert, University of Guelph. Book Launch. 'Tea Meetings, Concerts, and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention': Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914. 
  • Thursday, 17 October, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Edward Dunsworth, McGill University. "Beyond the Labour Shortage Narrative: A New History of Canadian Farm Labour."
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Ross Fair, Toronto Metropolitan University. "A Measure of Improvement in Upper Canada: The 1852 Agricultural Exhibition."
Thursday, September 12, 2024 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Scottish-Canadian Academic Partnership Reception

John Devine, LVO, OBE, Head of the Scottish Government Office in Canada and Professor Kevin James, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair at the University of Guelph, invite you to attend a reception to launch the Scottish-Canadian Academic Partnership—a catalyst for cooperation between scholars in the two countries.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore': An Eleventh-Century Scottish King

Dr. Neil McGuigan will give a virtual lecture that provides an overview of the book, its origins and aims, along with a summary of some of the main problems tackled and some of the solutions and conclusions offered. The talk will also try to provide a broader picture of Malcolm III's importance to Scottish history.

Dr. Kristina Llewellyn, adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo will see an interdisciplinary collaborative project with Waterloo's Games Institute launched as an exhibit later this year with the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia in Cherry Brook. The project entitled, "Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation: The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children History Education," uses virtual reality to tell the stories of harm experienced by children in the school.

In late June, Dr. Terry Copp, C. M., professor emeritus in history from Wilfrid Laurier University was appointed Member of the Order of Canada by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General. He co-founded and is director emeritus of the Laurier Centre for Military and Strategic Disarmament Studies, (now Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada) where he fostered a rich community of scholarship and cemented Canada’s role in the Second World War. His ongoing work is a legacy to future generations and their knowledge of our past. An investiture ceremony will take place at a later date.