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Thursday, May 18, 2017

May 18: Final Lyell Lecture “Urbs et orbis. Popes and printers” with Paul Nelles

An eternal archive - Lyell Lectures 2017 18 May 2017, 5:00pm - 6:00pm Venue: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford University Speaker(s): Professor Paul Nelles, Carleton University Description Successive sixteenth-century popes aspired to supply purified and corrected ecclesiastical texts to the far-flung corners of Christendom. This lecture... More

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

May 16 Roundup: History Events and Announcements

Lyell Lectures; Book Launch: Running on Empty; Digital Humanities Summer Institute; African Women Innovation and the Future; Marx's Capital after 150 Years; Historical Thinking Summer Institute; … Below are events taking place soon as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will now be sent out each Wednesday with upcoming... More

Monday, May 15, 2017

May 16: 4th Lyell Lecture “Scribes in the city” with Paul Nelles

An eternal archive - Lyell Lectures 2017 16 May 2017, 5:00pm - 6:00pm Venue: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford University Speaker(s): Professor Paul Nelles, Carleton University Description Sixteenth-century Rome was a hub of scribal activity: work-a-day copyists, notaries, and highly skilled scribes (such as those employed in the Vatican... More

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

May 10 Roundup: History Events and Announcements

Lyell Lectures; Book Launch: Running on Empty; Digital Humanities Summer Institute; African Women Innovation and the Future; Marx's Capital after 150 Years; Historical Thinking Summer Institute; … Below are events taking place soon as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will now be sent out each Wednesday with upcoming... More

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

May 11: 3rd Lyell Lecture “An eternal archive” with Paul Nelles

An eternal archive - Lyell Lectures 2017 11 May 2017, 5:00pm - 6:00pm Venue: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford University Speaker(s): Professor Paul Nelles, Carleton University Description Since its inception in the fifteenth century, the Vatican Library served as an important repository of papal records. This lecture explores the fortune of... More

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

May 9: 2nd Lyell Lecture “Cardinals and councils” with Paul Nelles

Cardinals and councils - Lyell Lectures 2017 9 May 2017 5:00pm - 6:00pm Venue: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford University (Map) Speaker(s): Professor Paul Nelles, Carleton University Description The Vatican Library was one of the first research institutions in early modern Europe. This lecture examines the library as a locus of historical... More

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Professor Norman Hillmer wins Stacey Prize 2015 for “magisterial biography” of O.D. Skelton

The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Norman Hillmer has won the 2015 Stacey Prize for the best book written in that year in the broad area of conflict and society in Canada with O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition. In awarding the prize the judges commended the book for... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

May 4: 1st Lyell Lecture “Libraries, Space, and Power” with Paul Nelles

The following excerpt is from Nick Ward's article "Paul Nelles Delivers the 2017 Lyell Lectures at Oxford University". In the 2017 Lyell Lectures, Paul Nelles enters the social and material world of the Vatican Library in the late sixteenth century. At the vanguard of the Counter-Reformation, the library gradually adapted to its new role... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

May 3 Roundup: History Events and Announcements

Lycell Lectures; Life Sciences Day; Canadian Military History Colloquium; Book Launch: Science of the Seance; Under the Influence; Book Launch: Running on Empty; Digital Humanities Summer Institute; … Below are events taking place soon as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will now be sent out each Wednesday with upcoming... More

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

April 26 Roundup: History Events and Announcements

Public Archaeology Twitter Conference; Ottawa International Writers Festival; Book Launch on the History of the Red Cross; The Middle East Un-Rebound; Migration/Representation/Stereotypes; Under the Influence; … Below are events taking place soon as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will now be sent out each Wednesday... More

Monday, April 24, 2017

Public Archaeology Twitter Conference: April 27-28

The 2017 Public Archaeology Twitter Conference is running this Thursday and Friday, the 27th and 28th of April. A Twitter conference is a social media event that occurs from the comfort of your desk/sofa/bed/bus/whatever. This event is meant to bring together public archaeologists from around the world in an online setting to encourage... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

April 28: Book Launch on the History of the Red Cross with Sarah Glassford

Please join us on Friday, April 28th from 5:30-7:30pm in the History Lounge (433 Paterson Hall) for the book launch of “Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross” by Dr. Sarah Glassford. Dr. Glassford is a social historian of Canada who earned her PhD at York University and has taught at Carleton... More

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