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SETS professor Jade Ferguson presented “Seeking Sanctuary: Mob Violence, Black Citizenship, and Anti-Lynching Activism in Canada,” the inaugural lecture in the Bremen-Guelph Lecture Series.

Congratulations to SETS Professor Lawrence Hill who won the 2017 Canada Council’s Molson Prize for his distinguished career in the arts.

Congratulations to Danila Botha, a student in the MFA in Creative Writing, who is a finalist for the Trillium Award for her collection of eighteen short stories For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known.

Improvisation and Social Aesthetic is a recently published title in the series Improvisation, Community and Social Practice, which is edited by SETS professor Daniel Fischlin and published by Duke University Press.

Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism and Community-Based Education, a collection of essays edited by SETS Professor Ajay Heble, has been released by University of Toronto Press

SETS Professor Emeritus Ric Knowles has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Part of the presentation speech reads as follows: 

Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Conference
 

The University of Guelph is home to Canada´s only Latin American and Caribbean Master´s (LACS) Program that incorporates the social sciences and the arts. On June 3-4, 2017, the LACS program and the University of Guelph will host the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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!