Past Events

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!

On Saturday, Nov. 15, at 3pm Dr. Alex Souchen will speak at the Liberation and Remembrance Symposium at the Guelph Museum “Underwater Munitions and the Environmental Legacies of the Second World War”

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 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 College of Arts, in partnership with the International Institute for Critical Studies and Improvisation (IICSI), are excited to announce our 4th panel in the Why Arts Matter research speaker series, an exploration of the intersections between disciplines, expertise, and themes that impact individual experiences, social life, and culture.

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