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Karen Houle is the inaugural Eastern Comma Writer-in-Residence Fall 2014.  From the announcement by the Musagetes Foundation:

Karen Houle is the inaugural Eastern Comma Writer-in-Residence Fall 2014.  From the announcement by the Musagetes Foundation:

The School of Languages and Literatures (formerly the Department of Languages and Literatures and Département d’études françaises) invites you to the annual 'homecoming.' Let's celebrate 50 years of languages and literatures at the University of Guelph!

Date: Saturday, September 20, 2014
Time: 5 pm - 7 pm
Location: Faculty Club, 5th Floor, University Centre, North Elevator

Toronto’s reggae roots are explored this weekend with Harbourfront’s Island Soul festivities and the Irie Music Festival (with a ceremonial opening at Nathan Phillips Square on Friday with appearances by acts from the Queen Street West reggae scene in the 1970s and ’80s). We spoke with Juno-nominated reggae-jazz keyboardist and historian Jason Wilson about the city’s Jamaican dance music past.

Read the interview at the Globe and Mail

Toronto’s reggae roots are explored this weekend with Harbourfront’s Island Soul festivities and the Irie Music Festival (with a ceremonial opening at Nathan Phillips Square on Friday with appearances by acts from the Queen Street West reggae scene in the 1970s and ’80s). We spoke with Juno-nominated reggae-jazz keyboardist and historian Jason Wilson about the city’s Jamaican dance music past.

Read the interview at the Globe and Mail

Professor Kris Inwood's new edited collection has just been published and features insights from Kris' work with the Historical Data Research Unit in the Department. Congratulations from all of us!
   from the jacket: Collective histories and broad social change are informed by the ways in which personal lives unfold. Lives in Transition examines individual experiences within such collective histories during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection brings together sources from Europe, North America, and Australia in order to advance the field of quantitative longitudinal historical research.

Read more at McGill Queen's University Press