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Thursday, August 8, 2024

Rod Phillips heads to San Diego to talk about wine and art

Professor Rod Phillips will give his annual public lecture on wine and art at the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, California, on 18 August. He’s been giving a lecture there in August since 2019, with time off for covid. The Timken is a private, free-admission gallery in Balboa Park that houses an... More

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer’s Book Reviewed in Hyperallergic

History Professor Shawn Graham and Adjunct Research Professor Damien Huffer have co-authored a new book, These Were People Once: The Online Trade in Human Remains, and Why It Matters (Berghahn Books, 2023), which was just reviewed by Erin L. Thompson for Hyperallergic. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "Why Is... More

Friday, July 5, 2024

Rod Phillips talks about the LCBO strike

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed by several media outlets on the eve and on the first day of the LCBO strike. He is a historian of alcohol and also a wine writer and commentator on alcohol policy. He discussed the background to the strike and pointed out that a key issue for the union... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Rod Phillips’s new book is on wine in eighteenth-century Burgundy

Professor Rod Phillips’s latest book, Un curé dans les vignes (A Priest among the Vines), has just been published in France by Éditions Universitaires de Dijon. It is co-authored by Jean Bart, an old friend of Rod – they met in Paris in 1989, at a conference for the bicentennial of the French Revolution... More

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Two Generations of Graduates Celebrating Together

On Friday, members of the History Department came out to proudly watch our undergraduate and graduate students cross the stage for convocation. It was an especially exciting time for one of our graduates, Mary Gunn! Not only did she win the University Medal, but she also crossed the stage that morning with her youngest... More

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