Past Events

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Rozanski Hall, Room 101

Come join our German movie night, featuring Young Goethe in Love. Refreshments will be served! 

As a part of Arts Week here on campus, the Guelph Classics Society is running their "Guelphmopylae" event for a second year in a row. Last year, Professor John Walsh wanted to get 300 students together for an epic photograph in the pass between Johnston Hall and MacKinnon to emulate the famed Battle of Thermopylae (as represented in the movie 300) and had a decent turnout but not quite at the magic number. This year they hope to make it all the way and get 300 people in that pass. So, please show up on October 24 at 4:30p.m.

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