COLLEGE OF
ARTS
Department of History
RURAL ROUNDTABLE SERIES – 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Guest Speaker: Dr Douglas McCalla
Canada Research Chair in Rural History, University of Guelph. Author of Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784-1870, The Upper Canada Trade, 1834-1872, and numerous articles on consumption at the general store
Title of Presentation: "Why Buy a Local Product from an Importer? Local Goods and Local Exchange in Rural Upper Canadian Charge Accounts “
Room: OAC Boardroom, 104 Johnston Hall, Time: 2:30-4:30
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Guest Speaker: Sharon Weaver
Doctoral Candidate, University of Guelph. Author of “Rural Encounters: 1970s Back to the Land” in Oral History Forum.
Title of Presentation: “Environment and Local Power in the Gulf Islands: The Islands Trust and Debates on Denman, 1974-9”
Room: OAC Boardroom, 104 Johnston Hall, Time: 2:30-4:30
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Guest Speaker: Dr Margaret Derry
Purebred breeder, artist, and historian of genetics and its relationship to culture.
Author of Horses in Society, Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies and Arabian Horses since 1800, Ontario’s Cattle Kingdom and forthcoming, Practice and Science in Livestock Breeding: Creating Better Chickens
Title of Presentation: “Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Livestock”
Special Guests of the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame in attendance and Archival Exhibit
Room: Florence Partridge Room, McLaughlin Library, Room 384, Time: 1:30-3:00 with reception to follow
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Guest Speaker: Dr Rob Kristofferson
Associate Professor of History and Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Author of Craft Capitalism: Craftsworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840-1872 and of recently completed manuscript, co-authored with Andrew C. Holman, “More of a Man: The Diaries of Andrew McIlwraith, Canada West and New York City, 1857-1862”.
Title of Presentation: “Narrating the Known Story: Mid-Victorian Craftsworker Diaries as Tools of Masculine Self-actualization”
Room: MacKinnon Bldg. 133, HIST*4620 classroom, Time: 10:00 am – 12:00am
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Guest Speaker: Dr Stuart McCook
Associate Dean of the College of Arts, University of Guelph. Historian of environmental history, tropical crops and commodities.
Author of States of Nature: Science, Agriculture and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
Title of Presentation: “Death and Resurrection of an Agricultural Landscape: Coffee in Indonesia, 1870-1930”
Room: OAC Boardroom, 104 Johnston Hall, Time: 2:30-4:30
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Guest Speaker: Jacqui Cannata
Doctoral Candidate, University of Guelph.
Title of Presentation: “Contrasting Lenses: The Different Subjects and Styles of Local Amateur and Outside Professional Photographers in Rural Ontario, 1870-1920"
Room: OAC Boardroom, 104 Johnston Hall, Time: 2:30-4:30
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Guest Speaker: Mark Sholdice
Doctoral Candidate, University of Guelph
Title of Presentation: “Hegel in the Heartland?: Political Patronage and Ontario Farmers’ Struggle for Recognition, 1919-1923”
Room 132, MacKinnon Bldg., Time: 2:30 – 4:30