Tri-University Graduate Program in History

05/13/2026

is looking for proposals for presentations, poster presentations, and vendors for their CAMELOT conference on Saturday, 26 September 2026. Please see on Instagram for more information.

Proposals due: Wednesday, July 1.

For proposal submission links see: https://buff.ly/PiLKYWu

05/08/2026

Join Dr. P. Whitney Lackenbauer of Trent University St. Jerome's University Notre Dame Chapel, Tuesday, May 12 for his lecture: "Canada's Arctic is Under Threat"
Clarifying Security Threats Through, To, and In the Arctic.

Canada's Arctic is Under Threat: Clarifying Security Threats Through, To, and In the Arctic with Dr. P. Whitney Lackenbauer

04/28/2026

hosts the 36th annual Canadian Military History Colloquium on May 8-9 at the Paul Martin Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University. Register by May 3! https://buff.ly/zf4QaNy

04/21/2026

invites you to join them online for The Frank Watson Book Prize Lecture presented by Dr. Catriona Macdonald from the .

Patrons and Politics in the Making of Scottish History: Past, Present and Future

🗓 Thursday 23 April, 2026

🕰 1pm (EDT) / 6pm (UK)

💻 Zoom

In this lecture Catriona Macdonald will consider the historic role of elite clubs and colourful patrons in the history of Scottish historical scholarship, then sketch the role of the state and of politicians in the writing of Scottish history in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. She will conclude by offering a conjectural history of trends in more recent times which suggest that the future of the Scottish past is not as secure as we may think.

In 2025, Catriona Macdonald was awarded The Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History for her publication, The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History. Edinburgh: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., 2024.

All are welcome to attend! See https://buff.ly/9lhI7Bg to sign up for the link.

04/14/2026

& presents Tri-U PhD candidate from Laurier, Kelly Morrison with the Military Lecture: "Lives of Servitude and Service: British Home Children and the Making of Wartime Canada."

At 102, Sir George Beardshaw is the last surviving veteran of the Second World War-era Queen’s Own Rifles and the only surviving British “Home Child” left in Canada. He is one of approximately 100,000 poor or orphaned child migrants sent to this country as part of British social and philanthropic programs developed across the United Kingdom between 1869 and 1939. Many Home Children, despite enduring hardship and abuse in their placements, chose to stay in Canada and contribute to this country’s efforts in the First and Second World Wars—approximately 10,000 in the Great War and 20,000 in the Second World War. Countless others served in various ways on the Canadian home front. Kelly Morrison’s presentation introduces Beardshaw and a select group of Home Children, revealing how this marginalized group helped to define Canada’s national wartime and postwar identity.

Location: Guelph Civic Museum, 52 Norfolk St, Guelph, ON N1H 2W9.

Doors open at 6:30 and the presentation starts at 7 p.m., followed by a question period.

The lecture premieres in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on the Museum's YouTube channel, and their Museum Everywhere Portal.

https://buff.ly/aMqbhY1

04/08/2026

Grant Schreiber successfully defended his dissertation in January this year at the History Department, University of Guelph.

His dissertation, “‘For ye haue the poore alwaies with you’: Experiments in Charity in post-Reformation Oxford and Aberdeen, 1560-1640,” challenges prevailing national narratives about the development of poor relief schemes in the aftermath of the religious changes of the sixteenth century in England and Scotland. Using civil, religious, and financial records, it compares experimentation with new forms of charity in the cities of Oxford and Aberdeen in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The dissertation analyzes changes in institutional charity, regularized relief, discipline and correction, and times of crisis in the two cities and concludes that the level of success in each runs counter to traditional historiography, underscoring the need to understand early modern poor relief in its local social, political, and economic contexts.

We caught up with him to learn more. https://buff.ly/Ee0wVq0

Congratulations Dr. Schreiber 🎉

04/01/2026

.baer.tsarfati successfully defended her dissertation last December. The Tri-U took some time to learn more about her research. https://buff.ly/6ytbfca

Congratulations Dr. Baer-Tsarfati! 🎉

03/25/2026

03/17/2026

Join the Tri-U's Gillian Wagenaar, PhD candidate, University of Waterloo student, for the and military lecture: "From Sherbrooke with Love: Illicit Correspondence, Civilian Internment, and Canada in the Second World War." Lecture held at Guelph Museum, Thursday, March 19, 7:00 pm. Gillian researches as part of . https://buff.ly/Pl6nQEa

03/13/2026

Local Meets Global graduate history conference is upon us: March 21, 2026. There is still time to register - until Monday, March 16. Conference held facilities.
Dr. Cindy Ewing, University of Toronto, will speak on "Working Within and Without International Order: Asian Solidarities in the Making of the Third World, 1945-1955." Many exciting panels are scheduled. bit.ly/triuconf-2026