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Week of November 9, 2025

Grad School Funding Workshop with Drs. McDougall and Ferreira

The History Department's annual Grad Funding Workshop is on Tuesday Nov. 11 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in MCKN 132.  Please see the attached poster for a bit more information. Present or future MA students planning to apply to SSHRC or OGS (or both) for the 2026/27 academic year -- this is for you!  
Poster for the “Cassidy–Reid Lecture in American History,” on Friday, November 14, 10:30–11:20 a.m., Mackinnon Building Room MCKN–120. Lecture titled “The African World and North America: Sisyphean Struggles and Pyrrhic Pleasures” explores Black struggles in Canada, the U.S., and the Caribbean from the 19th to 20th centuries. Includes a photo of a man in a blazer before bookshelves and the University of Guelph College of Arts logo.

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey at Cassidy-Reid Lecture in American History

The African World and North America: Sisyphean Struggles and Pyrrhic Pleasures. Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey will explore key events from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, scrutinizing the ebb and flow of integrated Black struggle in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. The lecture will challenge historiographical orthodoxy of Black progress, illustrating the ways that triumphalist interpretations of the past undermine Black liberation.