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Dorota Kupis
Monday, May 27, 2024

Update: 2024 Tri-U essay prize winner is also runner-up in BC Studies annual award for best published paper

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."

Feryn Karahkwiiohhstha King Hoop Dance
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Feryn Karahkwiiohhstha King: Hoop Dance Performance and Workshop

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.

WW1 Soldier on top of artillery writing notes
Thursday, March 21, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

“It was hell, that’s all.” Artillery and the Senses in the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918

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.

Text: Tri-University Conference. Conflict, Cooperation, and Commemoration: Examining Interactions in the Past. March 9 2024.
Saturday, March 9, 2024 9:30 am - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Conflict, Cooperation, and Commemoration: Examining Interactions in the Past: Tri-U History Conference 2024

Conflict, Cooperation, and Commemoration: Examining Interactions in the Past foregrounds the interactions between historical figures and events and the memorialization of those actions and reactions. As historians, engaging in conflict and cooperation is a pillar of historical research and the processes that create the subject matter for our research.

Keynote speaker is Dr. Mikki Brock of Washington and Lee University who specializes in demonology, witchcraft, and religious beliefs and identities in Early Modern Scotland. The title of her talk is, “‘That horrid and devilish sin’: Witchcraft and memory in Covenanted Scotland."