Past Events

Dr. Froehlich will illustrate how the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary can be used as a resource for harvesting literary-historical vocabulary surrounding specific semantic categories using data from the Oxford English Dictionary. She will apply this vocabulary towards a corpus of 101 plays, covering Shakespeare and a handful of his contemporaries (Dekker, Ford, Jonson, Middleton, and Webster), to observe for early 17th century dramatic writing discusses the language of madness and mental health.

A conversation with Angolan novelist Ondjaki about his multiple-award-winning novel Transparent City. Free and open to the public!

Italian professor Alessia Ursella will be holding a Presentation and Q&A session for the Italy Summer Field School program. Come to this meeting to find out more information on this 5 week program in Sorrento, Italy. 

FALL 2018 RURAL HISTORY ROUNDTABLE.  “AT THE JUNCTION BETWEEN PERSONAL MEMORY AND SOCIAL HISTORY: Using Family Photographs to Create Cultural Memoirs” - Melody Graulich, Visiting Fulbright Specialist on Western North American Cultural Studies, Utah State University. THURSDAY, 18 OCTOBER, 2:30-4:00 PM.  Location: Robert Whitelaw Room, Room 246B, University of Guelph Library  

Warlocks and witches in a dance; Nae cotillion brent-new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge - Robert Burns, Tam o’ Shanter

Please follow this link for more information and full program: GCEP