Fall 2018 Rural History Round table Speakers' Series | College of Arts

Fall 2018 Rural History Round table Speakers' Series

The History Department presents

RURAL HISTORY ROUNDTABLE: SPEAKER SERIES FALL 2018

ECOCIDE AND EVICTION: 

The Logic of Oil Palm Cultivation in Guatemala

Patrick Chassé  

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Guelph

THURSDAY, 4 OCTOBER, 4:00-5:30 PM. 

Location: TBA

 

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

 

OF PILLOW MOUNDS AND PILLORIES:

Rabbits and Rabbit-Keeping in Later-Medieval England

Jack McCart

Independent scholar, Fourteenth-century England

THURSDAY, 8 November, 4:00-5:30 PM

Location: TBA

 

THE MAKING OF MAPLE SYRUP:

Exploring the Settler History of a Canadian Commodity

Beth Jewett

Environmental Historian, History and Canadian Studies departments, Mount Allison University

THURSDAY, 29 NOVEMBER, 4:00-5:30 PM

Location: TBA

 

 

Sponsored by the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History

 

 

Catharine A. Wilson, PhD, F.R.S.C. / Redelmeier Professor in Rural History / Department of History / College of Arts 

University of Guelph

MacKinnon 2015 / 50 Stone Rd E / Guelph, ON / N1G 2W1

519-824-4120 Ext. 53204 / cawilson@uoguelph.ca

www.uoguelph.ca