Events

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.

The 34th Canadian Military History Colloquium by Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada will be held in-person at Wilfrid Laurier University on 3-4 May 2024

Submissions on all periods and aspects of Canadian military history and war and society, but especially on the history and centenary of the RCAF are invited. Proposals are welcome from all scholars including students, faculty and independent researchers.

Register by March 6.

Conflict, Cooperation, and Commemoration: Examining Interactions in the Past foregrounds the interactions between historical figures and events and the memorialization of those actions and reactions. As historians, engaging in conflict and cooperation is a pillar of historical research and the processes that create the subject matter for our research.

Keynote speaker is Dr. Mikki Brock of Washington and Lee University who specializes in demonology, witchcraft, and religious beliefs and identities in Early Modern Scotland. The title of her talk is, “‘That horrid and devilish sin’: Witchcraft and memory in Covenanted Scotland."

Conflict, Cooperation, and Commemoration: Examining Interactions in the Past foregrounds the interactions between historical figures and events and the memorialization of those actions and reactions. As historians, engaging in conflict and cooperation is a pillar of historical research and the processes that create the subject matter for our research.

Keynote speaker is Dr. Mikki Brock of Washington and Lee University who specializes in demonology, witchcraft, and religious beliefs and identities in Early Modern Scotland. The title of her talk is, “‘That horrid and devilish sin’: Witchcraft and memory in Covenanted Scotland."

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."

Join the University of Waterloo community for a hoop dance performance and workshop with Feryn King, an Indigenous (Mohawk) artist, professional international hoop dancer, and member of the Wolf Clan in Akwesasne, Quebec. 

The performance is in the Arts Quad (in front of Dana Porter Library) at the University of Waterloo and starts at 2:30

The workshop will be held in Alumni Hall at United College and runs from 4:00 - 6:00 pm. Email Lily MacKenzie by Friday, March 15th to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited.

Sponsored by the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre, the Office of Indigenous Relations, and the Department of History.

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.

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.

TUGSA Student research panel on Travel and Tourism, March 26, 10:00 am - 11:30 am on Zoom

Join MA student Nicole Vankooten of DRAGEN Lab for an historic forest walk. No registration, just meet at St. Jerome's DRAGEN Lab (#2 on map link), University of Waterloo campus at 12:45 pm.