Ajay Heble SETS: at a recent awards ceremony, the Student Senate Caucus awarded Professor Ajay Heble its award for Contributions to Teaching. His nominator states: "He has experimented with many really cool ways of engaging students actively in the learning process and is a testament to what a prof can do when [he is] passionate about teaching."
The 2011 Scottish Studies Spring Colloquium will be held 9 April 2011, 9:30am to 3:30pm, at Knox College, University of Toronto. The program will centre on Scots in the Atlantic World and more...
The 2011 Scottish Studies Spring Colloquium will be held 9 April 2011, 9:30am to 3:30pm, at Knox College, University of Toronto. The program will centre on Scots in the Atlantic World and more...
The Department's 1891 Database is in the news for their work on the early history of Vancouver. (read the story...)
For more information on the Historical Data Research Unit visit http://www.hdru.ca/
The Department's 1891 Database is in the news for their work on the early history of Vancouver. (read the story...)
For more information on the Historical Data Research Unit visit http://www.hdru.ca/
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...)