Rural History | University of Guelph

Upcoming Events

27 September 2004
“Migration and Beyond” – A colloquium
OVC Lifetime Learning Centre, room 1713

Eric Richards, Flinders University:
“Hugh Miller, Sismondi and Resistance to the Highland Clearances”

Bruce Elliott, Carleton University:
“Going Back to Sweet, Coleraine: Masculinity, Class, and Irish Return Migration”

Lunch included.

More on Richards and on Elliott

Sponsors: Scottish Studies, Canada Research Chair in Rural History, and
Department of History.

2 November
Gordon Darroch, Sociology, York University

2 December
Royden Loewen, History, University of Winnipeg

Watch this site for further information or contact <dmccalla@uoguelph.ca>
to request details.

Past Conferences

Telling Rural Stories: A Roundtable on Rural History
Ontario Agricultural College Boardroom
17 October 2003, 10 am to 12 noon

The objective of this discussion was to share ideas on powerful stories in rural history, ones that have the capacity to command the attention of non- specialists and to challenge stereotypical perceptions of the rural past that dominate historical understanding. A core theme was how to foster the integration of new work in rural history into larger narratives. A subsidiary aim was to represent the scope of rural history at the University of Guelph as a collective emphasis that stretches across the whole world and extends beyond the department.

Chaired by Terry Crowley, this discussion involved the rural historians at Guelph and four distinguished economic historians whose work focuses on rural economies: Gareth Austin (London School of Economics), E.J.T. Collins (University of Reading), George Grantham (McGill University), and Larry Neal (University of Illinois). Several other members of the History Department participated, along with more than twenty students.

The Future of Economic History Conference
Guelph, 17-19 October 2003

The core of this meeting was a group, now informally constituted as the Canadian Network for Economic History/Réseau canadien d’histoire économique, that has met every 18 months for about 40 years. The conference sought to extend discussion beyond the specific research programmes that regular participants have in process to address the institutional and especially the intellectual issues for economic history in Canada in years ahead.

There were 24 presentations; as most papers were available in advance on the conference website, the focus of the meeting was on discussion. In total, 40 people registered and several others sat in; they came from 15 Canadian, 1 American, 1 Uruguayan, and 2 British universities and from the National Archives of Canada.