College News

Our Emeritus Professor John Leslie has published (May 2013) The Mystery of Existence (Wiley-Blackwell, publisher), which he co-edited with Robert Lawrence Kuhn.

Our Professors Jay Lampert and John Russon gave plenary addresses at the recent Congress of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, October 10-12 at the University of Toronto.

The Middle East Scholars Society is excited to announce their new Facebook group! MESS will be using the page to advertise upcoming events, highlight ME faculty and students (both past and current), and keep people up to date on the general happenings in the group.
Please join our Facebook Group by searching: 'Middle East Scholars Society at the University of Guelph' on Facebook or going to: www.facebook.com/groups/169498816576914/ 
To have something posted on our Facebook page, contact Halette Wilson (wils8060@mylaurier.ca)

On Thursday, October 17, PhD candidate Jodey Nurse will speak at the Main branch of the Guelph Public Library from 7pm to 9pm on "Exhibiting Great Taste and Skill: Women's Work at Fall Fa

Happily ever after? Not really, says Adrienne Briggs, a recent Guelph history grad. Fairy tale endings are for Disney. To learn about the original and often graphic stories of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the like, you might look over some of the hundreds of Scottish chapbooks in the U of G library archives.
That’s what Briggs and other students did earlier this year for a pilot project in their U of G history class that will see old-time chapbooks meet modern communications technology.
Chapbooks were popular booklets containing songs, ballads, poems and short stories written for the increasingly literate Scottish masses of the mid-1700s to mid-1800s, says history post-doc Andrew Ross. Between eight and 24 pages in length, they covered such topics as romance, travel, comedy, politics, fairy tales and social customs.
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The School of Languages and Literatures is happy to announce that Professor Margot Irvine has been selected for the COA Teaching Award 2013/2014.

Our own Dr. Norman Smith has won the College of Arts Teaching Excellence Award for Faculty Members, and Jodey Nurse, a PhD Candidate in the Department, has won the same award for Graduate Students. Congratulations to both of them for these well-deserved awards from all of us!

Get ready for another season of the Rural History Roundtable!
The Fall 2013 Series is excited to present:
Jodey Nurse, “‘Exhibiting Great Taste and Skill’: Women’s Work at Fall Fairs in Ontario, 1846-1980.”
Alice J. Hovorka, “The Lives of Women and Chickens in Botswana: Intersections, Hierarchies, and Everyday Lives”
Sean Graham, “A Thousand Miles from the City: Early National Radio and Rural Canada”
Bruce Muirhead, “Dairy Supply Management: History, Challenges and Opportunities for a Resilient and Sustainable System”
Mark down your calendars now, and visit our website for more information about our speakers’ series or ‘like us’ on Facebook. www.uoguelph.ca/ruralhistory/ Get the flyer .pdf

Congratulations to Professor Stephen Henighan, who has just published his new "mini-book" "A Green Reef: The Impact of Climate Change" (Linda Leith Publishing, 2013; 50pp.). It is "a philosophical meditation on the impact of climate change."

Read more about "A Green Reef" here