Past Events

MA student: Christian Stevens Time: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Thesis Title: Physicalism and Its Prospects ALL ARE WELCOME

Wade Cormack will defend his M.A. Thesis, "Little Red and Black Books: Black's and Murray's Guidebooks to Scotland, 1850 to 1914," at 10a.m. on January 7, 2013 in 2020 MacKinnon Extension. All welcome! Get the abstract: .pdf

The History Dept. of the College of Arts presents: Dr. Gabriel Piterberg, from UCLA , speaking on: "Comparative settler colonialism and comparative literature in conversation" This talk is a close, yet contextual, reading of two pairs of literary texts: autobiographical novels by Albert Camus and S. Yizhar; and short stories by Camus and Amos Oz. On this basis a conversation is created between the field of comparative settler colonialism on the one hand, and comparative literature on the other. Reciprocal insight is gained: the

Tri-University Graduate Program in History student Amir Locker-Biletzki will defend his PhD dissertation on December 18th: "The Holidays of the Revolution in Israel." Get the abstract: .pdf The defence takes place in 132 MacKinnon on the main Guelph campus. All welcome!  

Private Event. Second Cup closes at 10:30am.

 Elizabeth Gagnon will defend her Masters Degree Major Research Paper on December 17th: "'Looking Good, Looking Canadian': Nature, Region and Sport in Miss Chatelaine in the 1970s" Get the abstract: .pdf  2020 MacKinnon Extension at 2pm. All welcome!