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Tuesday, September 19, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Enchantment at the Edge: Phantom islands and mythical lands at the Atlantic periphery

St. Andrew's Society of Toronto Virtual Lecture Series, Voyages to Scotland and Scots Voyaging Abroad: Histories of Travel. Enchantment at the Edge: Phantom islands and mythical lands at the Atlantic periphery.

Emily Kaliel, PhD candidate at the University of Guelph, was awarded the Segall Prize by the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) at their annual conference held on 27-29 May, 2023. Emily’s paper was entitled: “’Rather Isolated Communities Remote from Medical Aid’:  Changing Public Health Landscapes in Alberta at Mid-century.”

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Asian heritage month graduate student research panel

Image by Ktrinko on Wikimedia Commons

The Tri-University Graduate Student Association (TUGSA) together with the History Anti-Racism Taskforce (HART) at the University of Waterloo will host a graduate student panel in honour of Asian Heritage Month.

Thanks to Tri-University History Graduate program's partner, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (LCSC), Dr. Barrington Walker's lecture delivered on Wednesday, March 22 is now available. Barrington is a professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University as well as Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion there.

Photo credit: Woodland Cultural Centre

In March 2023, the Tri-University Graduate Program in History (Tri-U) was excited to learn that the Woodland Cultural Centre (WCC) announced Heather George’s appointment as their new executive director. Heather is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Waterloo supervised by Dr. Susan Roy. Heather is Kanien’kehá:ka and Euro-Canadian, her father’s family are from Akwesasne, along the St. Lawrence River.