History

The History Department presents

RURAL HISTORY ROUNDTABLE: SPEAKER SERIES FALL 2018

ECOCIDE AND EVICTION: 

The Logic of Oil Palm Cultivation in Guatemala

Patrick Chassé  

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Guelph

THURSDAY, 4 OCTOBER, 4:00-5:30 PM. 

Location: TBA

AT THE JUNCTION BETWEEN PERSONAL MEMORY AND SOCIAL HISTORY:

Using Family Photographs to Create Cultural Memoirs

Melody Graulich 

• ed. with Qiu Xiaodan. Zhu Ti, Ke Ju zuopin ji (Collection of Zhu Ti and Ke Ju’s Writings). Harbin: Beifang wenyi chubanshe, 2017.

• ed. with Xu Jianwen, Hu Di, and Li Ran. Yang Xu zuopin ji (Collection of Yang Xu’s Writings). Harbin: Beifang wenyi chubanshe, 2017.

• ed. with Li Ran. Wu Ying zuopin ji (Collection of Wu Ying’s Writings). Harbin:  Beifang wenyi chubanshe, 2017.

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The outstanding quality of research projects that History Department faculty are working on has again been recognized by SSHRC in the latest (2018) round of SSHRC grants competition. Four of these projects, including by Professors Tara Abraham, Catherine Carstairs, Alan Gordon, and Sofie Lachapelle, have been awarded IG and Connection grants. Professor Abraham’s project is titled "The Cinderella of Medicine: American Psychiatry and Medical Education, 1900-1950".

Jacqueline McIsaac, Ph.D. "Writing With Light: Glass Plate Photography and Visions of Rural Land in Ontario, 1851-1920" - Advisor: Dr. Alan Gordon 

URBAN AND RURAL PATTERNS OF MARRIAGE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOUTH AFRICA: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Records

Johan Fourie, Associate Professor of Economics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

WEDNESDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER, 4:00-5:30 PM

Location: MacKinnon Building, Room 132, University of Guelph

BEEF-PRODUCING SPECTACLES, COLOUR-BLIND SAILORS, AND OTHER PROBLEMS: Vision and Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Rural Nova Scotia

Sara Spike, Historian, Eastern Shore Islands Heritage Research Project, Nova Scotia

Principal researchers:  Peter Goddard, History, and Kimberley Martin, Ridley Postdoc in Digital Humanities.

Summer 2017 Research Assistants (UG):  Dylan Armstrong, Nicole Barkwill and Lara Carleton

Research into colonizer/settler attitudes and changing conceptions of poverty and their application in the Atlantic World in the age of European colonial expansion.

The following are posters or lists of past Rural History Roundtables.

Warecki, J. - M.A

Charles Raymond and the Raymond Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company and The Character of Boosterism in 19th Century Guelph - Dr. Gilbert Stelter, advisor

Nash-Chambers, Debra - Ph.D

Two Steps Forward or One Step Back? The Impact of Industrialization on Community and Family in a Small Industrial City: Guelph, Ontario, 1861-1881 - Dr. Gilbert Stelter, advisor