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Digital Humanities Summer Workshops 2019

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The University of Guelph is again hosting a series of 4-day workshops on topics related to digital humanities research and teaching, welcoming a wonderful, diverse group of instructors from a variety of disciplines and institutions. All are welcome! Please see the menu on the right for details on the workshops, instructors, and visiting Guelph.
European Studies MA Candidate MRP defence

European Studies MA Candidate MRP defence

Title of his paper: Anarchy, Power, and Perception: Thucydides and Political Realism on the Causes of Past and Contemporary Conflict  

Kelly Doig's Major Paper Presentation: "A Right without Access is no Right at All”: The Canadian Abortion Rights Action League, 1974-1988."

In 1969, the Canadian government passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act which decriminalized abortion under specific circumstances. The law allowed legal abortions only if a committee of three doctors found that the mother’s health was at risk and if the doctor performed the abortion in an accredited hospital. However, over the next two decades Canadian women faced many obstacles in obtaining legal abortions until, in 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R v. Morgentaler found the law to be unconstitutional. This major research paper

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