Upcoming Events

The School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing is hosting a public talk with Dr. Sarah Dowling (Toronto). Dowling will discuss their new book, Here is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form (Northwestern) and contemporary poetics. Everyone is welcome!

The Scottish Research Circle (SRC) invites you to their October Research Talk, on Friday 3 October, 4:00-6:00pm in the Keg Lounge, Brass Taps (University Centre). Refreshments will be provided.   Dr Chris Nighman (Wilfrid Laurier University), will present “Inchcolm Abbey’s so-called ‘warming room’: the case for its identity as the library and scriptorium where Walter Bower wrote Scotichronicon (1440-47)”. The talk will be followed by a Q&A/discussion about the paper.  Please see the attached poster below on...

The History Department Fall 2025 Grad School Information Night takes place on Tuesday, 7 October from 5:30-7 p.m. in MCKN 103. As always, we'll have Pizza and Pop for everyone at the meeting! Please see the poster (attached below) for details.

Thesis Title: “Jeremy Bentham and the Development of Modern Policing” All ARE...

WHAT: Meet the Professors Event WHEN: Thursday, October 16th from 3:00pm-5:00pm WHO: Undergraduate History Students + History Professors WHERE: Lookout Lounge (University Centre [UC], Level 5) RSVP: Please RSVP to Eden Ridpath (eridpath@uoguelph.ca) Meet the Professors is an event put on by the History Society at the start of each school year, where...

Thesis Title: "Facing the Good: Attention, Contemplation, and the Conversion of Vision in Plotinus". ALL ARE WELCOME    

The Rural History Roundtable presents: Dr. Marcel Martel, History, York University and Dr. Alex Gagné, History, Wilfrid Laurier University will speak on: "Drinking Ontario Wine: A Dream?" All welcome! Events are both in-person and online this Fall. To register to attend online, visit: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/roundtable or contact Dr. Rebecca Beauseart: rbeausae@uoguelph.ca For more,...

The Rural History Roundtable presents two speakers in this event: Bram Fookes, Billy Bishop Museum: "Ordnance in the Orchard: WW2 and the Militarization of Rural Ontario"  and Lydia Kinasewich, History, University of Guelph: "Raw Milk Debates: Rural Producers and Consumer Health Concerns, 1956-91" All welcome! Events are both in-person and online this Fall. To register to attend online, visit: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/roundtable or contact Dr...