Events

Laurier’s Provost Office has organized this free, online history symposium on January 15, 2024 entitled, “Institutional Histories: Reckoning with the Past – Reimagining the Future” which draws together 12 historians and interdisciplinary scholars engaged in research about the legacies of university namesakes, land acquisitions, and histories of exclusion and inclusion at Canadian post-secondary institutions.  Registration link below.

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 Speaker Series with Dr. Geoffrey Hayes, Professor of History at University of Waterloo. Hybrid event.

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

TUGSA sponsored virtual research panel on Medical Histories. January 25, 2024.

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.

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.

TUGSA Student research panel for Black History Month. Thursday, February 8, 2024 on Zoom

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.

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."