Events

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.

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.

John Devine, LVO, OBE, Head of the Scottish Government Office in Canada and Professor Kevin James, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair at the University of Guelph, invite you to attend a reception to launch the Scottish-Canadian Academic Partnership—a catalyst for cooperation between scholars in the two countries.

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."

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."

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."

Aly Firth, MA student at Wilfrid Laurier University, offers an assessment of transgender roles and crossdressing in performances for the troops during the First World War. This Military Lecture is sponsored by Tri-U partner Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada and Guelph Museums.