Past Events

To celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial and Guelph’s 190th anniversary, Guelph Museums launches a unique lecture series to reflect on our collective history and the theme of nation building. Building Canada Lectures, presented in partnership with the University of Guelph, is set for the second Wednesday of each month at 7 PM at Guelph Civic Museum. March 8, Matthew Hayday presents, Celebrating Canada: How commemorations and national days have shaped our country Doors open at 6:30 PM with lecture beginning at 7 PM. Admission by donation.

Artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat illustrates the development of her work from still photography to video installations, to cinema and most recently to opera.  For more information visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/shenkman

The Master of Fine Art candidates open their working studios to the public.  For more information visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/shenkman

Rural History Roundtable presents: Allyson Stevenson, Aboriginal Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Guelph: “On-Reserve Indigenous Women Organizing for Change: The Saskatchewan Indian Women’s Association, 1971-1980”  Friday 3 March 2017, 4:00-6:00 PM in MacKinnon 132 All welcome!

Please join us for a talk by Jeremy Glick, Associate Professor of African Diaspora literature, CUNY (New York, US). His work spans the disciplines of literature, philosophy, and political thought. His recent book The Black Radical Tragic "explores work from Lorraine Hansberry, Sergei Eisenstein, Edouard Glissant, Malcolm X, and others, ultimately enacting a speculative encounter between Bertolt Brecht and C.L.R.

Duo Percussion: More Than Drums!  For more information visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/events

Thesis Title: Art and Social Change: History, Power and Resistance                                   in Foucault's Philosophy of Art ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND    

Bud Roach is a tenor and baroque guitarist.  For more information visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/events

On Monday, February 13 at 1pm, Cameron Winter will defend his MA Thesis: Colonial Ideas, Modern Warfare; How British Perceptions Affected Their Campaign Against the Ottomans, 1914-1915 The defence takes place in 132 MacKinnon. All Welcome!!