Trevor Parsons, PhD candidate at Waterloo, and Elizabeth Spence, MA student at Laurier are the 2025 Tri-U essay prize winners. Winners were announced at the conference on March 1.
The Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 was the greatest aerial battle in history. In this talk at Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, Ted Barris uncovers the unknown stories of Canadian airmen, ground crew, as well as engineers, aeronautical designers, medical officers and civilians who answered the call and turned back the very real threat of Nazi invasion. Barris is an award-winning journalist, author, broadcaster and author of 22 best-selling non-fiction books.
Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, together with Guelph Museums, presents a lecture by Lieutenant-Colonel Miguel A. Ortiz-Sosa, CD, the commanding officer of Guelph's 11th Field Regiment.
Donald Trump wants Canada to be his 51st State. He isn’t the first American leader to think that way, and he won’t be the last. At the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (LCSC), Norman Hillmer, a leading historian of the Canadian-American relationship, reflects on how Canada resisted the United States in the past, and he asks whether and how much present challenges are different from yesterday’s.
Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, together with Guelph Museums, presents author Douglas Hunter. Hunter explores the role of the First World War in the life and career of artist A.Y. Jackson, and its impact on the formation of Canada’s most famous art collective, the Group of Seven.
Brianne Skylar Casey, a proud Métis woman, scholar and talented artist, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, at the age of 23 after a hard fought battle with cancer. Brianne had nearly finished her MA in History at Wilfrid Laurier University (Laurier) and was accepted to the PhD program. She was an active part of the Tri-University Graduate Program in History family.
TUGSA Student research panel on Scottish History, February 26, 1:00 pm on Zoom.
Dr. Sam Hossack defended her timely dissertation, “A Broken History: Examining the Events, Experiences, and Narratives of the High Arctic Relocations, 1950-2010,” on January 10, 2025 at the University of Waterloo.
Henry Tsang, visual and media artist from Vancouver, talks about his 360˚ Riot Walk project and book, White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver.
Wilfrid Laurier University professor, Leonard Friesen presents a special lecture series celebrating the publication of his book, Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation (University of Toronto Press, 2022). Sponsored by the Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies. This is the second in the series. Consider attending the first lecture.