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Description

During the world wars, cartooning offered soldiers opportunities to express dissent and criticism that both bolstered morale and avoided overt censorship. As primary sources, these sketches, drawings and comics allow historians to see how soldiers created unique subcultures based on shared stresses, grievances and inside jokes. In this presentation, Matthew Barrett features wartime cartoons and comics to show how they could poke fun at what was the most serious business of life and death consequences.

Details

Date: Wednesday, November 11

Time: 7:00 pm EDT.

Two ways to attend:

• In person, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, 232 King St. N., Waterloo, ON, or
• Register for the Zoom livestream.

Join Dr. Jennifer Jordan for her presentation, "Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them." Dr. Jordan is a professor of sociology and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Online: Register for the Zoom link.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Rebecca Beausaert or Ben Bradley.

More than a century after the Armistice, the missing of the Great War have reappeared in modern memory. Glenn Kerr, Chair of the Central Ontario Branch of the Western Front Association, seeks to shine a light on a chapter of Canadian and Commonwealth history where the soldiers and closest loved ones can no longer speak for themselves. 

The lecture premieres in-person at Guelph Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube, and their Museum Everywhere Portal.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7 p.m., followed by a question period.

The Military Lecture series is a partnership between Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada and Guelph Civic Museum.

David Neufeld, historian of religion, culture, and everyday life in early modern Europe, explores how mutual dependency between the early Anabaptists and the surrounding community was based not on creed but on credit, and the ongoing evaluation of reputation, construction of moral knowledge, and building of trust across religious difference that it entailed.

Sponsored by the Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies, the lecture is part of Conrad Grebel University College's Benjamin Eby lecture series.

A public and free event with the request to register in advance for planning purposes.

Save the date for the 2027 Tri-U Graduate Conference in History: March 13, 2027.

The conference will be held at the University of Guelph and organized by Guelph faculty and students.