News

Our own Dr. Alan McDougall is interviewed this week at the New Books Network. In The People’s Game: Football, State and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Alan McDougall looks at football from the top-down and bottom-up: as a tool of the state, as forming regional identities in East Germany and in a reunified Germany, and as a popular pastime. Although characterized by mediocrity compared to other sports in East Germany, McDougall demonstrates the ways in which football gave people a means of expressing identities that were separated from and even opposed to that endorsed by the state.

read the rest of the story at the New Books Network.

Our own Dr. Alan McDougall is interviewed this week at the New Books Network. In The People’s Game: Football, State and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Alan McDougall looks at football from the top-down and bottom-up: as a tool of the state, as forming regional identities in East Germany and in a reunified Germany, and as a popular pastime. Although characterized by mediocrity compared to other sports in East Germany, McDougall demonstrates the ways in which football gave people a means of expressing identities that were separated from and even opposed to that endorsed by the state.

read the rest of the story at the New Books Network.

History Society 

Final meeting of the semester - March 22nd

The History Society is having it's final meeting of the year on March 22nd at 5:30pm in Mackinnon 307. If you're interested in being involved in the History Society for 2016-17, please come out! There will be opportunities to plan for next year's events, and if you're interested, to serve on the executive.

The History Students Society has also organized an Archives Tour as part of Arts Week on Monday, March 21st.  Get the poster .pdf

History Society 

Final meeting of the semester - March 22nd

The History Society is having it's final meeting of the year on March 22nd at 5:30pm in Mackinnon 307. If you're interested in being involved in the History Society for 2016-17, please come out! There will be opportunities to plan for next year's events, and if you're interested, to serve on the executive.

The History Students Society has also organized an Archives Tour as part of Arts Week on Monday, March 21st.  Get the poster .pdf

The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts were created in 1999 by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada. Over the past 16 years, the awards have celebrated Canada’s vibrant arts community and recognized remarkable careers in the visual and media arts.

SOFAM and the MA.AHVC program congratulate Paul Langis and Kimberly McDiarmid for placing 1^st and 3^rd in the College of Arts 3 Minute Thesis Competition 3MT®.  Paul will now go on to compete in the University of Guelph finals on March 23, 2016