Past Events

What Strange Paradise Omar El Akkad U of G’s annual common reading project – Gryphons Read – celebrates its seventh iteration. This year’s novel is What Strange Paradise, by Egyptian-Canadian author and journalist, Omar El Akkad. It is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair – and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.

The History Department presents RURAL HISTORY ROUNDTABLE: SPEAKER SERIES FALL 2023 SPONSORED BY The Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History Events are in a hybrid format this fall, unless noted otherwise. To register to attend online, visit: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/roundtable or contact: bmendonc@uoguelph.ca

Join the Centre for Scottish Studies online this fall for a series of fascinating lectures focused on Historical Travels in Scotland & Scottish Travellers Abroad, featuring international experts sharing their insights. Registration is free! Voyages to Scotland and Scots Voyaging Abroad: Histories of Travel Featured Speakers:

MA Thesis Title: "Doing Development Justice:                             Corruption, Non-ideal Theory, and Global Justice"   ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND (in person)

MA thesis title "Reimagining the Lord Mayor's Shows: Constructing a 3-D Model of Bower's Tomb from Anthony Munday's Chrysanaleia (1616)"

Thesis Title: "Strangers in NeoAristotelian Ethics,                         Metaethics and Politics" ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

MA thesis title "Nationalist and Feminist Propaganda in Manchukuo’s Early Period and the Response: Focus on the Educational System, Mass Media, and Literary Works"

Please join us for the exhibit launch of Truth or Treason? Sources for the Study of the Jacobites featuring special guest speaker, Dr. Leith Davis. The University of Guelph’s renowned Scottish Studies Collection boasts an outstanding array of Jacobite-related materials that speak to the complexity of the Jacobite movement, the deep divisions it generated, and broad alliances in which it was implicated. Details and registration are available on Eventbrite:

The History Society will be hosting its last event of the semester, a book auction from 5:30 to 8 pm on Thursday, March 30th at the Bullring! The event will be MC’d by Megan Gamble, as well as Professors Kevin James and Linda Mahood! The History Society will also give away prizes and food throughout the evening. Please keep in mind that accepted payment methods will only be etransfer, small bills ($5 & $10), loonies and toonies.