Creative Writing core faculty member Dionne Brand is short-listed for the prestigious Griffin Award for Poetry for her newest collection, Ossuaries (M&S). Brand is nominated in the Canadian category. There is also a prize for an international poetry collection. The shortlists were announced today.
Ossuaries has also been shortlisted for the 2011 Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian.
"French on a box of Corn Flakes! Quelle horreur!"
The Centre for Scottish Studies invites you to visit our brand new photographic exhibition produced to mark Canada's Tartan Day and Scotland Week for 2011.
"This Is Who We Are, Part 2. The Diaspora Lines" - created by Graeme Murdoch of Cultural Connect Scotland
The Centre for Scottish Studies invites you to visit our brand new photographic exhibition produced to mark Canada's Tartan Day and Scotland Week for 2011.
"This Is Who We Are, Part 2. The Diaspora Lines" - created by Graeme Murdoch of Cultural Connect Scotland
For four years, History Department docrtoral candidate Sharon Weaver and her husband lived in an old carriage shed on their 400-acre farm in Cape Breton. “You could see the stars through the walls,” she recalls. “In the winter, we’d be sleeping in the warmest down sleeping bags we could get, but in the morning our boots would be frozen to the floor and my husband’s moustache would be white with frost.” (Read more...)
For four years, History Department docrtoral candidate Sharon Weaver and her husband lived in an old carriage shed on their 400-acre farm in Cape Breton. “You could see the stars through the walls,” she recalls. “In the winter, we’d be sleeping in the warmest down sleeping bags we could get, but in the morning our boots would be frozen to the floor and my husband’s moustache would be white with frost.” (Read more...)
The School of Fine Art and Music proudly presents
University of Guelph Concert Winds Ensemble
Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Ave., Guelph
Conductor John Goddard
General Admission $10; Students/Seniors $5
Tickets available at the door
For more info email visotamm@uoguelph.ca or call 519-824-4120 x52991
Wednesday, March 23, the next Rural History Roundtable features Dr Rob Kristofferson, who will present a paper based on his co-authored, and soon-to-be published, book: More of a Man: The Diaries of Andrew McIlwraith, Canada West and New York City, 1857-1862. The title of his presentation: “Narrating the Known Story: Mid-Victorian Craftsworker Diaries as Tools of Masculine Self-actualization." The talk takes place in MacKinnon Room 311, 10:00am to 12:00noon in conjunction with Hist4620. There will also be a poster display of the farm diary work being done by the class.
Wednesday, March 23, the next Rural History Roundtable features Dr Rob Kristofferson, who will present a paper based on his co-authored, and soon-to-be published, book: More of a Man: The Diaries of Andrew McIlwraith, Canada West and New York City, 1857-1862. The title of his presentation: “Narrating the Known Story: Mid-Victorian Craftsworker Diaries as Tools of Masculine Self-actualization." The talk takes place in MacKinnon Room 311, 10:00am to 12:00noon in conjunction with Hist4620. There will also be a poster display of the farm diary work being done by the class.
