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14Mar2018
Exterior view of the Munk School of Global Affairs

Child Victims and Female Perpetrators: Dealing with the Nazi Murder of Disabled Children in Ukraine after WWII

Speaker: Tanja Penter (University Of Heidelberg)

Location: Room 108N, North House, 1 Devonshire Pl, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7

12Apr2018
Several Pershing II missiles

Going Nuclear: A Symposium on Nuclear Politics

At the heart of American nuclear power lies a paradox: Although the United States participated in and propelled a nuclear arms race, no other country ...

Location: Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Pl, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7

30Apr2018
Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies Building

Symposium on Robert and Thomas Wakefield and the Study of Hebrew in England in the Sixteenth Century

Speaker: Theodor Dunkelgrün, James P. Carley, Joanna Weinberg, Anthony Grafton,Judith Schlanger

The brothers Robert and Thomas Wakefield were perhaps the earliest pioneers in Hebrew studies in sixteenth-century England. Appointed reader in Hebrew...

Location: Laurence K. Shook Common Room, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 59 Queen's Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 2C4

30Apr2018
A one year old boy looks over the infamous border between the United States and Mexico.

The Child at the Social Limit

Speaker: Dr. Rachel Bowlby (UCL), Dr. David L. Eng (UPenn), Dr. Lisa Guenther (QueensU)

How have technological and political transformations in sexual and social reproduction transformed the relationship between children and adults? How h...

Location: Room 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George St, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

13Jun2018
Ulster-American Symposium

22nd Annual Ulster American Heritage Symposium

Speaker: KEYNOTE ADDRESSES: Professor William Jenkins (York University), Professor Christine Kinealy (Quinnipac University), Professor William Smyth (President Emeritus, Maynooth, Ireland)

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The 22nd meeting of the Ulster American Symposium will be held for the first time in Canada, at the University of Toronto, 1...

Location: Carr Hall 405, St. Michael's College, 81 St. Mary Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S1J4

14Jul2018
Victoria College library

Workshop: Research Methods in the History of Sociology

Speaker: Various

  Participants: Program speakers and the audience, including faculty members and graduate students from the sponsoring units (IHPST, Sociology, Histo...

Location: Room 304, Victoria College, 73 Queen Park's Crescent, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7

14Nov2018

Paul Cohen, “Translation on the Seas: Towards a Maritime History of Language in the First Age of Globalization"

Speaker: Prof. Paul Cohen (Department Of History)

Please join us next Wednesday, November 14,  for this year’s second meeting of the Toronto Eighteenth-Century Group. Paul Cohen, Associate Professo...

Location: Jackman Humanities Building 616, 170 St George St Toronto ON M5S 3G3

16Jan2019
Image of Prof. Matt Farish

Making ‘Man in the North’: Academic and Military Entanglements in Arctic Science, 1944-49

Speaker: Prof. Matthew Farish (Geography And Planning - UofT)

In the brief period between the final months of World War II and the acceleration of the Cold War at the end of the 1940s, several new scientifically-...

Location: VC 323, 91 Charles St WToronto, ON M5S 1K5

06Feb2019
Hand drawn reconstruction of a computer proof in geometry, 1967.

Making Up Minds: Computing and Proof in the Postwar United States

Speaker: Prof. Stephanie Dick (University Of Pennsylvania)

Abstract: “Computers ought to produce in the long run some fundamental change in the nature of all mathematical activity.” These words, penned in ...

Location: Victoria College, Room 323, 73 Queen's Park Crescent Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7

01Mar2019
Chinese man selling cigarettes

The Jim Crow Cigarette in China

Speaker: Nan Enstadt (University Of Wisconsin Madison)

The Jim Crow Cigarette in China: An Intimate History of Corporate Capitalism

Location: 2098, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3

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