Events

This community event will feature presentations by faculty, graduate students and Archival and Special Collections staff, and is part of a wider partnership between the University of Guelph and Simon Fraser University.

Special guest speaker Professor Viccy Coltman will present an exploratory and informal talk titled, 'Wartime: Scottish officers in military service, 1793-1815'.

Join the DRAGEN lab online for a conversation about climate. Experts from the fields of history, environment, and public policy will share their unique perspectives and knowledge on our climate – past, present, and future. Dr. Sam White (Ohio State University), Dr. Maria Strack (University of Waterloo), and Mike Morrice, MP (Green Party, Canada).

Presenter: Dr. Andrew Watson, Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan.

Photo by ecologist Dylan White

Presenters: S. Mehltretter, B. Luby, A. Bradford, and L. Legzdins with Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation

The @manominproject is a multicultural, multidisciplinary research team committed to crop restoration and cultural revitalization in Anishinaabe-AKI (the land of Anishinabeg). Manomin, the crop for which @manominproject cares, is commonly known in English as "wild rice."

The University of Waterloo's History Department is excited to celebrate the launch of Dr. Katherine Bruce-Lockhart's book, Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Dentention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda in partnership with the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Presenter: Dr. Mary Murphy, Distinguished Professor of History, Montana State University.

Lecturer: Paul Esau, PhD candidate, Wilfrid Laurier University,

For more than three decades, successive Canadian governments have tied themselves in knots to justify the sale of Canadian-produced weapons to Saudi Arabia. Yet the Saudi sales are only the latest chapter in a history of arms sales to conflict regions which extends back to the Second World War, and includes customers from all over the world.

Lecturer: Tim Cook, Author

In this talk, Canada’s top war historian, Tim Cook, will discuss his latest book Lifesavers and Body Snatchers, on how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations.

Laurier Center for the Study of Canada Speaker Series

If the twentieth century marked the age of human rights, the twenty-first century is shaping up to be the age of truth and reconciliation. From South Africa to Canada, Chile to South Korea, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have become popular justice mechanisms for societies seeking to address grave human rights violations.