Seminar

The Indigenous Speakers Series at the University of Waterloo presents Mary Spencer, member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation and former WBA super welterweight world champion.

Mary held the WBA super welterweight world championship professional boxing title for the past year. She boxes out of Montreal, Quebec. Spencer grew up in Windsor, Ontario, and started boxing at the age of 17. She spent 10 years on the Canadian Boxing Team where she won three world titles as well as the PanAm Games, and in 2012 she became the first woman to represent Canada in Olympic boxing.

Spencer's talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dale Bellaire, a PhD student in the Faculty of Health.

The event is offered in person and online. Registration is appreciated but not required.

On March 26 at 7PM, Laurier Brantford's History program presents its biannual People Make History event, featuring a panel discussion on historical Canadian-American relations and contemporary links with Dr. Lara Campbell, Dr. Tim Cook, and Dr. Asa McKercher.

Register on Zoom.

Three graduate history students present their research on Pride themes. Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 1:00 pm. Register to be sent the Zoom link.

TUGSA Student research panel on Scottish History, February 26, 1:00 pm on Zoom.

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

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.

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.

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

TUGSA sponsored virtual research panel centres the research of Tri-University graduate students who examine public history from political, environmental, and cultural perspectives.