Lecture

The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada invites you to a hybrid lecture with Tim Cook. In this presentation Cook will discuss his new book, The Good Allies, a masterful account of how Canadians and Americans made the transition from wary rivals to steadfast allies, and how Canada thrived in the shadow of the military and global superpower. 

The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada invites you to a hybrid lecture by Dr. Matthew Wiseman. In this talk, Dr. Wiseman will discuss his recent book, Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945-1970, that investigates the most challenging issue of Canadian defence in the postwar Arctic: the human body.

Join Dr. Stephen Sherlock in an exploration of archeological sites in Northeast Yorkshire from the Neolithic period to the Roman arrival. Dr. Sherlock partners with DRAGEN Lab, a research project partner in the Tri-U.

Rural History Speaker Series for Fall 2024

• Thursday, 26 September, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Rebecca Beausaert, University of Guelph. Book Launch. 'Tea Meetings, Concerts, and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention': Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914. 
• Thursday, 17 October, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Edward Dunsworth, McGill University. "Beyond the Labour Shortage Narrative: A New History of Canadian Farm Labour."
• Tuesday, 12 November, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Ross Fair, Toronto Metropolitan University. "A Measure of Improvement in Upper Canada: The 1852 Agricultural Exhibition."

Dr. Neil McGuigan will give a virtual lecture that provides an overview of the book, its origins and aims, along with a summary of some of the main problems tackled and some of the solutions and conclusions offered. The talk will also try to provide a broader picture of Malcolm III's importance to Scottish history.

LCSC works in partnership with Guelph Museums to offer the Guelph Museums Lecture series.

Hazel Scott Pankratz, PhD candidate at Western University and a recent Tri-University History MA graduate from Wilfrid Laurier University "explores the lives of Canadian gunners and demonstrates the ongoing need to look beyond the trenches in order to better understand the diverse experiences of Canadians fighting the First World War." Held in-person and on the Guelph Museum's Facebook livestream.

The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada presents a lecture by Dr. Graham Broad, King's University College entitled, "The War Diary of Leslie Miller, CEF."

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.

LCSC partners with Guelph Museums to sponsor this Military Lecture by Dr. Tarah Brookfield, Wilfrid Laurier University.

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.