Upcoming Events

The History Department's annual Grad Funding Workshop is on Tuesday Nov. 11 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in MCKN 132.  Please see the attached poster for a bit more information. Present or future MA students planning to apply to SSHRC or OGS (or both) for the 2026/27 academic year -- this is for you!  

The African World and North America: Sisyphean Struggles and Pyrrhic Pleasures. Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey will explore key events from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, scrutinizing the ebb and flow of integrated Black struggle in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. The lecture will challenge historiographical orthodoxy of Black progress, illustrating the ways that triumphalist interpretations of the past undermine Black liberation. ...

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...