Past Events

8:30-9:00     Registration, Coffee, and Icebreaker 9:00-9:15     Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:15-10:35   Panel One: Postcolonial Panel A (Moderated by Alessia Ursella) Marisa Benjamin     Decolonising Reconciliation: Indigenous Resistance Agains The Weaponization of Hope Larura Van De Walle     A Journey of Understanding: Alternative Narratives Written by Female Indigenous Authors Madison Chan     Reclaiming the Black Female Body: Undressing White Supremecy withing the Medical Journals of the 19th Century

Thesis Title: Resolving a Kantian Problem:                      Beyond Reconciliation to Formal Unity ALL ARE WELCOME

History Students Making Radio Waves This Summer Tune in to Radio 93.3 FM for Professor Wilson’s MA History students on CFRU this July and August.  Students of “Rural History HIST6550” have created half-hour shows in collaboration with Chris Currie from CFRU, the University of Guelph’s radio station.  Each show features a nineteenth-century diarist from the Rural Diary Archive website. 

Thesis proposal title: The Ethics of Water: From Commodification                                               to Common Ownership ALL ARE WELCOME  

Thesis Title: Norval Morrisseau's Legacy or The Sini                     Who Dreamt About Amik and Maanameg   ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND  

This thesis will argue that the lived religion of young Methodist men in rural Ontario from 1866 to 1874 contributed to the creation of a particular ideal of rural masculinity known as the “Christian Gentleman.” The existing historical literature on this topic has focused on the urban-centred middle-class Christianity of the 1880s and 1890s and has tended to ignore alternative visions of Christian manliness that arose in rural communities much earlier. This thesis will make use of the farm diaries of three young Methodist men in mid-Victorian Ontario: Samuel Johnson (b.