Past Events

The second Rural History Roundtable presentation of Winter 2026 is Thursday, Feb. 12 from 3:30-5:00pm EST. It will be a virtual event. Presenter: Emily Kaliel (Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Guelph)  Title: "Public Health in Rural Alberta and Settler Colonialism as a Structure, 1919-71" All Welcome! For more on the Rural History Roundtable visit: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/roundtable

2026 marks 100 years of celebrating Black History in February. Commemoration in February is meant to be a demonstration of what has been done in the study of Black history during the year and a demonstration of greater things to be accomplished.

The Centre for Scottish Studies is pleased to share the annual Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership (S-CAP) Lecture! Join us virtually on Tuesday, February 10 at 1 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)/6 p.m. (United Kingdom time) on Zoom for Nova Scotia and the Imperial Strategies of Highland Scots, delivered by Professor Karly Kehoe, Saint Mary's University. About the Talk…

Thesis Title: “Writing of a Transexual Body: Auto-Theory in Lacanian Orientation” ALL ARE WELCOME

The first presentation of Winter 2026 will take place Thursday, January 22 from 3:30-5:00pm EST in the MacKinnon Building Room 132 at the University of Guelph (weather permitting).

The organizing committee for the 2026 Tri-University History conference invites your submissions to present at this year's conference, Saturday, March 21, 2026, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Subm

Faculty and students are invited to attend the hybrid MA thesis defence of student Megan Gamble (“‘Let us be not only hearers but doers of the Word’: Affective Plasticity, Emotionology, and Embodied Responses of Scottish Covenanting Women*, 1638–1688”) on Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 from 10:00am - 12:00pm.

Faculty and students are invited to attend the hybrid PhD dissertation defence of student Grant Schreiber (“‘For ye haue the poore alwaies with you’: Experiments in Charity in post-Reformation Oxford and Aberdeen, 1560-1640”) on Monday, January 5th, 2026 from 2:30pm - 5:30pm.

You're invited to join Kimberley Martin, associate professor, Department of History, and Susan Brown, professor, School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, for the annual Make Merry event in The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration (THINC) Lab, on Wednesday, December 17, at 1 p.m.! What is Make Merry, you ask?

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!