Past Events

On January 17 at 12:30pm in 2020 MacKinnon Extension Matthew Piper will defend his Master's Degree Major Research Paper: "'Working Towards the Fur': The Allure of the Nazi Animal and Nature Protection Laws in Nazi Germany and War-Torn Europe." All Welcome! Get the abstract.

"Rights and Worlds: On the Political Significance of Belonging" Everyone Welcome! Refreshments will follow at University Club. For more information contact Dr. Karen Houle - khoule@uoguelph.ca

On January 15, 2014 in MacKinnon room 132, beginning at 11a.m., the Scottish Studies program presents the Third Annual St. Andrew's Society of Toronto Lecture entitled: "Scots in the Sub-Arctic: Musical Exchanges with the James Bay Cree." Fiddle music and dancing form a major component of the social lives of the Cree population living in the James Bay region of sub-Arctic Canada.

Join us on Wednesday, January 15 for the Third Annual St. Andre w's Society of Toronto Lecture entitled "Scots in the Sub-Arctic: Musical E xchanges with the James Bay Cree." Beginning at 11am in MacKinnon 132, e thnomusicologist Frances Wilkins from the Ephinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, will speak on the subject of Cree fiddlers of James Bay and th eir historical and musical connections to Scotland via connections with the Hudson's Bay Company from the late 1600s.

Free + English subtitles Questions - musicst@uoguelph.ca or fan m@uoguelph.ca

Free + English Subtitles. Questions - musicstu@uoguelph.ca or f anm@uoguelph.ca

On January 9, 2014 in MacKinnon room 132 from 3:00 to 4:00pm, the program in Scottish Studies proudly presents Wade Cormack (University of Highlands and Islands): "The Links and Sports Fields: A Sport and Cultural History of the Moray Firth Region, c.1603 to 1799."