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Attached you will find the brand new poster for the Winter 2020 Rural History Roundtable Speakers Series. We have some v...
02/24/2020

Attached you will find the brand new poster for the Winter 2020 Rural History Roundtable Speakers Series. We have some very exciting upcoming talks, including this Thursday, February 27! Dr. Cynthia Prescott will be delivering a talk titled, "Pioneer Mother Monuments and U.S. Cultural Memory," at the Robert Whitelaw Room 246A (McLaughlin library), from 2:30-4:00pm. We hope you will be able to join us!

11/28/2019

A friendly reminder that tomorrow, November 29, the Rural History Roundtable welcomes our final speaker of the 2019 fall series, Taylor Graham. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. She is also a writer, director, producer, and an artistic associate at Pat the Dog Theatre Creation. Taylor's talk, "Theatre From the Fields: An Investigation into The Farm Show," will be held in the MacKinnon Building, room 132, from 2:30-4:00p.m. We hope you will be able to join us!

11/13/2019

Hello all,

A friendly reminder that tomorrow, November 14, the Rural History Roundtable welcomes our second speaker of the 2019 fall series, Dr. Peter Stevens. Dr. Stevens is a professor of Liberal Studies at Humber College and has completed major research projects on the history of family cottaging in Ontario. His talk, "Is Cottage Country A Rural Place?" will be held in the MacKinnon Building, room 132, from 4:00-5:30p.m. We hope you will be able to join us!

We are pleased to share our line-up of speakers for the Fall 2019 semester. We have some great talks scheduled, includin...
10/21/2019

We are pleased to share our line-up of speakers for the Fall 2019 semester. We have some great talks scheduled, including this Wednesday, October 23. Dr. Catharine Wilson, the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professor in Rural History at the University of Guelph and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, will be presenting a talk titled, "Airing out the Quilt and the Quilting Bee," in the Mackinnon Building, room 132. We hope you will be able to join us!

03/27/2019

A quick reminder that Jodey Nurse-Gupta, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, will be our speaker at tomorrow's Rural History Roundtable. Her talk, "A History of Canadian Poultry Women," will be held in the MacKinnon building, room 132 from 2:30-3:50 p.m. We hope to see you there!

03/21/2019

Next week marks the final roundtable of the Winter 2019 series! We are pleased to welcome Jodey Nurse-Gupta, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo. Her talk, "A History of Canadian Poultry Women," will be held in the MacKinnon building, room 132 from 2:30-3:50 p.m. on Thursday, March, 28th.

03/06/2019

Mark your calendars! The next roundtable will take place next Thursday, March 14th, with Royden Loewen, Chair of Mennonite Studies and Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg. His talk, "Seven Points on Earth: Mennonite Farmers, Land, and a Global Perspective," will take place from 2:30-3:50 p.m. in MacKinnon Rm. 132.

A quick reminder that tomorrow, Feb. 27th, we welcome Dan Needles to the Rural History Roundtable! His talk, "A Stroll T...
02/26/2019

A quick reminder that tomorrow, Feb. 27th, we welcome Dan Needles to the Rural History Roundtable! His talk, "A Stroll Through Persephone Township," will be held in the Robert Whitelaw Room (second floor of UG's library) from 4-5:30 p.m.

A reminder that next week, Feb. 27th, Dan Needles will be giving his Roundtable talk, "A Stroll Through Persephone Towns...
02/22/2019

A reminder that next week, Feb. 27th, Dan Needles will be giving his Roundtable talk, "A Stroll Through Persephone Township." Dan's talk will be held in the Robert Whitelaw Room (on the second floor of UG's library) from 4-5:30 p.m.

A big thank-you to Erin Schuurs for her talk, "'Fiddle-Ins' and Protest Placards: Audience Response to the Controversial...
02/22/2019

A big thank-you to Erin Schuurs for her talk, "'Fiddle-Ins' and Protest Placards: Audience Response to the Controversial Cancellation of Don Messer's Jubilee." On Feb. 7th, Erin discussed the popular CBC television show and the backlash which occurred following its cancelation in 1969 with an audience of Guelph faculty and students.

Dan Needles, playwright of the popular "Wingfield Farms" series, will be joining us later this month. We are excited to ...
02/11/2019

Dan Needles, playwright of the popular "Wingfield Farms" series, will be joining us later this month. We are excited to welcome him to UG!

02/01/2019

Hello everyone,

A friendly reminder that next week, February 7th, the Rural Roundtable welcomes our first speaker of the 2019 Winter series, Erin Schuurs. Her talk, "Fiddle-ins and Protest Placards: Audience Response to the Controversial Cancellation of Don Messer's Jubilee," will be held in the MacKinnon Building, Room 132, from 2:30-3:50 p.m. We hope you will be able to join us!

We are pleased to share our line-up of speakers for the Winter 2019 semester. We have some great talks scheduled and hop...
01/16/2019

We are pleased to share our line-up of speakers for the Winter 2019 semester. We have some great talks scheduled and hope you will be able to join us! Please feel free to spread the news.

11/28/2018

Hi everyone,

A friendly reminder that tomorrow, November 29th, the Rural Roundtable welcomes Dr. Elizabeth Jewett. Her talk, "The Making of Maple Syrup: Exploring the Settler History of a Canadian Commodity," will be held in the J.D. MacLachlan Building, Room 107, from 4-5:30 p.m. We hope you will be able to join us!

11/23/2018

A friendly reminder that next Thursday, November 29th, the Rural Roundtable welcomes Dr. Elizabeth Jewett. Her talk, "The Making of Maple Syrup: Exploring the Settler History of a Canadian Commodity," will be held in the J.D. MacLachlan Building, Room 107, from 4-5:30 p.m. We hope you will be able to join us!

11/21/2018

Doug McCalla will be speaking at the Guelph Historical Society's "Evenings with History" on December 4th at 7:30 p.m at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Guelph. The church is located at 161 Norfolk Street.

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