Past Events

Hello everyone! Happy October!  A friendly reminder that one of the History Society’s biggest events is coming up on October 16th. Meet the Profs!  There will be free food, chances to win prizes, a Prof Scavenger Hunt, and lots of opportunities to talk to professors and fellow students. This is a great event to connect with faculty and students with a love of history, just like yourself! This event is for anyone who has an interest in history and wants to further their education by making meaningful connections. 

HISTORY GRAD SCHOOL INFORMATION NIGHT When: Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 5:30-7 p.m. Where: MacKinnon Room 132

Please join us on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 3:30pm EST for the book launch by Rebecca Beausaert, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Guelph:  "'Tea Meetings, Concerts, and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention': Women's Leisure in Small Town Ontario, 1874-1914." This hybrid talk will take place at in the Whitelaw Room - 246B in the main Library at University of Guelph. Eventbrite link for virtual access to the talk: 

The Scottish Research Circle is a graduate-student led organization whose goal is to highlight a blend of senior and emerging scholars in a variety of topics related to the history of Scotland. The SRC invites you to their Grad Student Roundtable: Scottish Research Showcase with Brenna Clark, Roslyn Potter and Grant Schreiber, on Wednesday 18 September 2:30-4:00pm in MacKinnon 111. Coffee and cookies will be provided.   Please see the attached poster for further details. Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph

Thesis Title: "What Freedom Needs: Democracy and Philosophy in Plato's Republic"

Join the Scottish Government Office in Canada and the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, to launch the Scottish-Canadian Academic Partnership —a catalyst for cooperation between scholars in the two countries.

We invite you to join the Centre for Scottish Studies online on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at noon (Eastern Daylight Time) for the Frank Watson Book Prize Virtual Lecture, Máel Coluim III, “Canmore”: An Eleventh-Century Scottish King, with Dr. Neil McGuigan, winner of the 2023 award.

MA thesis title Forgotten Paradise: Damascus Water Engineering and Management from Antiquity to the End of the Umayyad Period.

Thesis Title: From Dialectic to Regress: F.H Bradley's Reformation of the Hegelian System ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

PhD thesis title Public Commemoration and Personal Memories: Canadian Commemorations of the Second World War