Dr. Nick Richbell successfully defended his dissertation, "'Mr. Spiritualism' Maurice Barbanell and his Life as a Twentieth-Century Spiritualist Propagandist," on February 14, 2024.
Brittany Dunn successfully defended her dissertation, "Grief Amidst the Guns: Death in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the Western Front," at Wilfrid Laurier University, Monday, February 5, 2024.
Join MA student Nicole Vankooten of DRAGEN Lab for an historic forest walk. No registration, just meet at St. Jerome's DRAGEN Lab (#2 on map link), University of Waterloo campus at 12:45 pm.
The Tri-University History program congratulates two professors, Dr. Talena Atfield and Dr. Lianne C. Leddy on their Canada Research Chair awards.
Dr. Leddy holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Histories and Historical Practice in Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Dr. Atfield holds the Canada Research Chair in Tentewatenikonhra'khánion (We Will Put Our Minds Together) at the University of Waterloo.
Dorota Kupis, PhD student at Wilfrid Laurier University was awarded the Tri-U History essay prize at the Tri-U History conference on March 9 at the University of Guelph. Her winning article, “The Political Struggle Behind the Delgamuukw Case: The 1994-1996 Trilateral Treaty Negotiations with the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en,” was published in BC Studies.
May 27, 2024: The article was also announced as runner-up in the BC Studies best paper competition the journal holds each year. The prize is "intended to encourage and celebrate high-quality work on British Columbia, regardless of topic or discipline."
Reflections on the 30th annual Tri-University History Conference, "Conflict, Cooperation and Commemoration: Examining Interactions in the Past."
Conference held at University of Guelph on March 9, 2024.
Join the University of Waterloo community for a hoop dance performance and workshop with Feryn King, an Indigenous (Mohawk) artist, professional international hoop dancer, and member of the Wolf Clan in Akwesasne, Quebec.
The performance is in the Arts Quad (in front of Dana Porter Library) at the University of Waterloo and starts at 2:30
The workshop will be held in Alumni Hall at United College and runs from 4:00 - 6:00 pm. Email Lily MacKenzie by Friday, March 15th to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited.
Sponsored by the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre, the Office of Indigenous Relations, and the Department of History.
Eric Story successfully defended his dissertation, "Scarred by the White Plague: A Health History of Tuberculosis and the Great War," on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. He studied under Dr. Mark Humphries at Wilfrid Laurier University.
LCSC works in partnership with Guelph Museums to offer the Guelph Museums Lecture series.
Hazel Scott Pankratz, PhD candidate at Western University and a recent Tri-University History MA graduate from Wilfrid Laurier University "explores the lives of Canadian gunners and demonstrates the ongoing need to look beyond the trenches in order to better understand the diverse experiences of Canadians fighting the First World War." Held in-person and on the Guelph Museum's Facebook livestream.
The University of Waterloo Library acquires Black News and the digitized Amiri Baraka papers with help from the Tri-U's Vera Zoricic, PhD student.