The group has accepted an invitation from the Mosbach International Competition for Chamber Choirs to perform on April 27th in Mosbach, Germany. Only six choirs are invited; our University choir is the only North American choir participating. Twenty-six singers, and their conductor, Dr.
Quilting bees. Threshing bees. Barn-raisings. Friendly, hard-working neighbours gathering together to get things done. It’s one of those rural traditions that we tend to look back on nostalgically. But there’s another side to these “bees,” says history professor Catharine Wilson. Sometimes, everything went wrong. “There were serious, sometimes fatal, accidents and fights frequently broke out. Some turned into major brawls. I even found information about 16 cases of murder at the bees or right afterwards. She calls them “bees-gone-wrong.”
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Unfortunately Dr Scanlon's lecture has been cancelled due to illness.
Professor T. M. Scanlon will present the 2012 Guelph Lecture in Philosophy: "What is Morality?" on Thursday, March 8, 5:30- 7:00 p.m. in the Academic Public Square, McLaughlin Library. Find out more about the talk and Dr Scanlon's work.
Professor T. M. Scanlon will present the 2012 Guelph Lecture in Philosophy: "What is Morality?" on Thursday, March 8, 5:30- 7:00 p.m. in the Academic Public Square, McLaughlin Library.
New PhD students in social and political philosophy whose dissertations touch on ethical issues related to globalization are eligible to receive additional funding ($1,000 - $3,000) from the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change. For additional information please contact Monique Deveaux.
The 2012 Guelph Philopolis was a festival that manifested how Philosophy engages with every facet of life. It achieved this through panel discussions, workshops and activities of many kinds. Find out more at the festival website.
Philosophy is a field that engages with every facet of life. However, academic philosophy these days could be doing a better job of engaging in dialogue with the public: this requires finding a common language, as well as being explicit about the relevance of the ideas at issue. \
Philopolis is a two-day festival that aims to facilitate just such an exchange through panel discussions, workshops and activities of many kinds. Find out more at the festival website.
The Department's famous Rural History Roundtable is ten years old! Congratulations to Dr. Catharine Wilson, Dr. Douglas McCalla and all the speakers and coordinators who have made the Roundtable a College of Arts institution over the years. The Winter 2012 Roundtable schedule will carry on this great tradition with speakers addressing tourism, consumer culture, rural amusements and more. Get the schedule (.pdf)