Past Events

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)

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

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.

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. 

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!

Dr. Alan MacEachern, History, Western University will speak on: "Becoming Green Gables: The Making of a Famous Farmhouse" Hosted by Archival and Special Collections of University of Guelph Libraries 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

We invite you to join us for From "Snaky Swamp" to Chesapeake Bay and Beyond: Liquid Escapes and Maritime Marronage in Harriet Jacobs’s Narrative (1861), a talk by Dr. Paula von Gleich​ from the University of Bremen in Germany.

Don't miss Gender and the Medical Humanities: Conversion Practices in Contemporary British Film, an upcoming talk by Dr. Jennifer Henke​ from the University of Lüneburg in Germany! 

Thesis Title: "The Ethics and Cognitive Science of the Attention Economy'' ALL ARE WELCOME

Dr. Alan McDougall's new book, Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People’s History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp, is coming out with Cambridge University Press in August (7 August in the UK, 28 August on this side of the pond). The North American book launch event is Wednesday 10 September 2025, Ben McNally Books, 108 Queen Street East, Toronto, from 5-7 p.m.