Thursday, January 23, 2025 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, March 12, 2025 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)
Local Need, Lasting Legacies: Japanese Canadian Internment & Rural Medicine
Dr. Letitia Johnson
Thursday, January 23, 3:30 - 5:00 pm online.
Register through Eventbrite. Link provided on the Rural History Roundtable page.
Contact: Dr. Ben Bradley, University of Guelph History.
Dr. Letitia Johnson completed her PhD research entitled, "A History of Resistance and Compliance: Japanese-Canadian Health, Healthcare, and Healthcare Providers During Internment (1942-1949)," in 2023 at the University of Saskatchewan under Dr. Erika Dyck. She is currently a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Victoria. Her current research seeks to situate the history of internment in the broader history of rural and remote healthcare in British Columbia, with attention to the important role racialized healthcare providers played in sustaining healthcare in Canada.
The Medieval Pig
Dr. Dolly Jørgensen
Wednesday, February 12, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Register through Eventbrite. Link provided on the Rural History Roundtable page.
Contact: Dr. Ben Bradley, University of Guelph History.
Dr. Jørgensen is a Professor of History at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is an historian of the environment and technology and an environmental humanities scholar. Her research spans from medieval to contemporary environmental issues. Currently the focus is on animal histories. Her monograph Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging was published with MIT Press in 2029. Recently, The Medieval Pig was published with Boydell Press in 2024. Check out her website for more information including her current research agenda.
mmm...Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat
Kimberley Moore and Dr. Janis Thiessen
Wednesday, March 12, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Register through Eventbrite. Link provided on the Rural History Roundtable page.
Contact: Dr. Ben Bradley, University of Guelph History.
Janis Thiessen and Kimberley Moore and their new book, “mmm…Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat,” launched at the Manitoba Museum, April 17, 2024.
Kimberley Moore is an Adjunct Professor, and the Programming and Collections Specialist at the University of Winnipeg Oral History Centre. She has a B. A. (Hons) in History from the University of Winnipeg, and an M. A. in History from Concordia University. Kim teaches workshops in oral history and related technologies. More details are available on the Oral History Centre Staff webpage.
Dr. Janis Thiessen is Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg. She received a BSc and BEd from the University of Manitoba and then began a 15-year high school teaching career while completing an MA in History at UManitoba. She later went on to complete her PhD in History at the University of New Bruinswick. Thiessen's areas of research interest include 20th century history of labour and business, food history, and oral history. More details are available on her profile page.