News

Our own Dr. Alan McDougall recently contributed to the article, “More Than a Game: Football and Politics Collide as Israel-Hamas War Grips the Sport” featured on Alarabiya News.

The Champlain Society has awarded our own Dr. Catharine Anne Wilson this year’s Floyd S. Chalmers Award for Ontario HIstory for her book Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830-1960, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The book "immerses the reader in Ontario’s farm neighbourhoods from the pioneer era into the 1950s.

This issue, entitled "Perspectives sociolinguistiques variationnistes du français en situation de contact des langues", brings together ten articles written to honour the memory of our former COA colleague, Alain Thomas,

The Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History 2023

The Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book or monograph published on Scottish History in 2021 and 2022 has been awarded to:

Neil McGuigan, Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore': An Eleventh-Century Scottish King. Edinburgh: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., 2021. ISBN: 9781910900192.

For more, visit the Centre for Scottish Studies

You are invited to attend the South Western Feminism and Philosophy Workshop and dinner happening at the University of Guelph on November 16th at 4 pm (McKinnon Rm. 132).

This event will welcome two philosophers to present their work in progress. Our speakers are Dr. Sujaya Dhanvantari, Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph (presenting "The Colonial Duration of Gender Violence"), and Hale Doguoglu, Ph.D. student at Western University (presenting “Distrust, Power, and (In)vulnerability”).

Susan Nance is part of a team that has founded a new scholarly journal, Animal History, published by University of California Press.

Animal History is a first of its kind. It publishes cutting-edge historical research on the histories of animals and human-animal relationships, documenting the impacts animals have had on global histories, cultures, languages, technologies, and environments as well as the impacts that humans have had on animals and their pasts, cultures, and lives.

Sophie Brown (PhD, Critical Studies in Improvisation and International Development) has published a co-authored chapter with community partner Lindsay Bobyak in book, Impactful Classroom Experiences in Elementary Schools.