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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."

Thursday, February 8, 2024 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Indigenous Speakers Series (Waterloo) presents Chelsea Vowel

Chelsea Vowel's engaging presentation "âniskôhôcikan, Like a String of Beads: Indigenous Futurisms," will be presented on February 8 in person or through MS Teams. Indigenous futurisms, a term coined by Grace Dillon and indebted to Afrofuturism, seeks to describe a movement of art, literature, games, and other forms of media that express Indigenous perspectives on the future, present, and past.

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, February 14, 2024 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, March 20, 2024 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Rural History Roundtable Speaker Series, University of Guelph

Rural History Roundtable Speaker Series for Winter 2024 from the University of Guelph History Department, includes four afternoon lectures through the semester. They will be held in-person or hybrid. Events are sponsored by the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History.