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SETS professor Judith Thompson has created and directed the theatre production Wildfire In Toronto. Here is a review: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2017/05/05/wildfires-cast-wi...

Canada made marijuana illegal 94 years ago and no one's sure why

Ninety-four years ago Canada became one of the first countries to ban a substance virtually no one was using. A University of Guelph professor who penned a book on the history of illegal drugs in Canada says after nearly a century of marijuana prohibition, no one is really sure why it was made illegal in the first place.

"We don't actually know," Dr. Catherine Carstairs told The Morning Edition host Craig Norris Tuesday.

On March 30th, the Rural History Round Table wrapped up another successful season with Dr. Sasha Mullally, associate professor of history at the University of New Brunswick. Dr. Mullally's talk: "The Heroics and Poetics of Interwar Medicine" deconstructed the "country doctor" icon by examining stories about rural doctors which have been published overtime. Focusing on doctors practicing in Maine and Nova Scotia, Mullally separated the myth from the reality.

The Rural History Roundtable returns in September. See you then!

Our Professor John Russon has been awarded a Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (SICRG) for the project “The Ethics of Teaching in Pluralistic and Unequal Societies” in collaboration with Professor Siby K. George from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. This two year grant is supported by funds from Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), government of India. Congratulations, John!

The Canadian Culinary History Exhibit opens April 7 in McLaughlin Library on the University of Guelph main campus. All are welcome to attend the opening!

From Guelph Today:

Cooks are an essential bridge between farmers and consumers, and always have been.

Today, our former Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dr. Ian Mosby, is featured in the Globe and Mail: "We Are What We Ate: Canada’s History in Cuisines"

SETS PhD student Stephanie Settle has won the 2016 Doris Lessing Graduate Student Essay Prize for her essay “Power to Disturb: Exploring Selected Works of Doris Lessing Through the Critical Lens of Queer Theory.”

Our Fall 2017 topics for Invitation to History First Year Seminars have been announced!

Dr. Alan Gordon: "Polar Encounters"
Dr. James Fraser: "The Celts"

For more information visit our First Year Courses page (scroll down to HIST*1050, Invitation to History)

Our Sessional Instructor Natalie Evans discusses her recently published book Animal Ethics and the Autonomous Animal Self (Palgrave Macmillan) in a recent article in U of G news. Congratulations Natalie!