News & Events
First-year Masters student Deborah Livingston-Lowe is featured this week in an at Guelph article! Deborah's work on weaver John Campbell, a Scottish immigrant, ties together the Scottish and Rural history programs Guelph is so well known for. Read the article at atguelph.uoguelph.ca/2012/02/loom-weaves-the-past-into-the-present/
On April 5, The Centre for Scottish Studies is holding a John Galt Roundtable to discuss the life and contributions of John Galt, Scottish novelist, founder of Guelph, and from from 1826 to 1829, the first Commissioner of the Canada Company. For details of this event please see the John Galt Roundtable page.
On 7 March, Dr. Martin Greig from Ryerson University will present a talk on Gilbert Burnet in Mackinnon Extension 2020 from 2:30 - 4:00. "With a Little Help from My Friends: the role of friendship in Gilbert Burnet's Scottish career" examines the crucial role friendship played in Burnet's early career in Scotland, how Burnet perceived those friendships, and, where possible, how others perceived their friendships with him.
The Rev. Dr. Stuart Macdonald from Knox College, University of Toronto is giving a talk on March 22 in Mackinnon Extension 2020 from 2:30 - 4:00. "A Critical Year? Scottish witch-craft accusations in 1628" will look specifically at the year 1628 as well as overall patterns of witchcraft accusations, individual cases, and how the study of this year might change our understandings of witchcraft in Scotland.
On 4 April, Dr. Graeme Morton from Guelph will present "'I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like': the morals of the long-distance cyclist" from 2:30 - 4:00 in Mackinnon Extension 2020. The bicycle or velocipedist, sometimes called a cycle, but never a bike, was confined to a few enthusiasts until the 1870s. By the 1880s the middle classes had taken it to their hearts along with competitive and endurance bicyclists, showing off its potential and the extremes the body could endure. By the 1890s bicycling had become a national pastime for all social classes: ‘What the locomotive has done for man travelling in companies the bicycle has accomplished for the individual’ was one reflective summary of its development in 1897. The aim of this roundtable will be to explore the cultural impact of the bicycle's adoption upon moral debates within late Victorian and Edwardian Scotland.
We are very excited to announce that the latest volume in the Guelph Series in Scottish Studies, The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the Worlds Beyond, edited by Jodi A. Campbell, Elizabeth Ewan, and Heather Parker was just released! For more information, please click here.
We are proud to annouce that former Scottish Studies professor, Dr Elizabeth Waterston has been named to the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Ontario for her academic achievements. Dr Waterston is an expert in Scottish literature and was an esteemed member of the Scottish Studies program in addition to teaching in the English department from 1968 to 1987. Read More.
