Winter 2019 Rural History Round table line up
We are proud to present our Rural History Round table series for the winter semester; sponsored by the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History.
History Features
Professor Norman Smith's co-edited compilation (5 vols.) of Manchukuo literature
with Liu Xiaoli, Okada Hideki, Zhang Quan, Ōkubo Akio, Kim Jaeyong, Ronald Suleski, Li Haiying, Chen Yan, and Chen Shi. Wei Man wenxue ciliao zhengli yu yanjiu congshu (Manchukuo Literary Materials Compilation and Research Collection). Harbin: Beifang wenyi chubanshe, 2017 (34 volumes) & his edited Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017 are out in the bookstores.
Outstanding research of Department of History faculty gains support from SSHRC
Four of these research projects, including by Professors Tara Abraham (R), Catherine Carstairs (T), Alan Gordon(B), and Sofie Lachapelle (L), have been awarded SSHRC IG and Connection grants
Scottish Studies 2018 Spring Colloquium at Knox College, University of Toronto.
Featuring The Jill Mackenzie Lecture by Dr Catriona M.M. Macdonald, Reader in Late Modern Scottish history at the University of Glasgow
The History Department’s Rural History Roundtable Speakers Series, Winter 2018
The History Department’s Rural History Roundtable Speakers Series, Winter 2018, has an illustrious lineup of speakers that includes Professor, Fabio Faria Mendes, Professor Kris Inwood, Dr. David Klassen, Professor Jan Hadlaw, Author Ben Bradley, and Emeritus Professor Doug McCalla, formerly Canada Research Chair in Rural History, University of Guelph.
Take a History Course & Have a Work Experience
HIST*3480 WORKPLACE LEARNING is an independent study course based on either History related voluntary or paid workplace experience. Students combine scholarly research and reflection with applied on-the-job experience.
History Department United Way Trivia Night
The History Department Trivia Night is always a fun event. It is happening on November 14th, 7:30 pm at the Brass Taps. The questions will be devised by our own grad students! All proceeds will go to the United Way.
Odd Jobs: The Outliers of Where Historians Work - AHA
"… sports coaches, movie producers, farmworkers, mechanical engineers, software developers, and many others working in fields where a history PhD is definitely not the prerequisite. . . . [H]ow [does] their training as historians shape their careers[?]"
Fall 2017 Rural History Round table Speakers Series
Fall 2017 Rural History Round table Speakers Series
Location: MacKinnon Building, Room 132, University of Guelph
