The Department of History invites you to an information session/ workshop on SSHRC and Other Graduate Funding Opportunities on October 28, 2015 from 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm in Ryan Building 3024.

This session will give you the opportunity to find out about Federal and Provincial funding for Graduate Studies. Trish Sokoloski and Maegen Lavallee from the Faculty of Graduate Studies will lead the workshop and answer questions about the funding process.

If you have any questions, contact Dr. Pallavi Das at pvdas@lakeheadu.ca

The Department of History is pleased to present Dr. Matthew Farish (Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto) who will be speaking on “Boards and Bodies: Militarizing the Human Sciences in the Cold War North.”

This presentations is part of a new joint initiative between the Departments of History at Lakehead University and Nipissing University to live beam speakers between the two universities. The event is also co-hosted with the MES/MESc Seminar Series at Nipissing.

Guardians of Eternity is a film produced as part of the Toxic Legacies Project and deals with the issue of how we communicate to future generations the danger of the 237,000 tomes of arsenic trioxide that is buried in the Giant Mine in Yellow Knife where it has to be frozen in perpetuity. It will be toxic forever, it is water soluble (the mine is on Great Slave Lake) and there is enough there to kill everyone on the planet. The film has been made in partnership with the Yellowknife Dene First Nation (YKDFN) and they are the focus of the film.

Members of the Department of History played key roles in its production. Ronald Harpelle is the film's Executive Producer and Kelly Saxberg is the Director of Photography and a Producer. Alumnus Gabriel Harpelle is the Editor. The film's production was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Guardians of Eternity's award-winning trailer can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/35522130

The screening will be at the Finnish Labour Temple on Bay Street on 10 December at 7 pm.

It is an event brought to you through a partnership between the Department of History, RESRG, and the Bay Street Film Festival’s Docs on Bay.

Cost is $8 or pay what you can.

The Department is pleased to present Dr. Róbert Győri, Chair of the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and a Lakehead Visiting Scholar. He will be speaking on "Geography and Politics in Twentieth Century Hungary."

Dr. Győri is associate professor and Chair of the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and head of the Tibor Mendöl Geography and Earth Sciences Workshop at the Eötvös József Collegium of ELTE. His research fields include historical geography, urban geography, and the history of geographical knowledge. His current research focuses on how science was controlled and managed by a totalitarian regime, and how Hungarian geography in particular was crushed as a result of Soviet- era transformations. He is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Lakehead University.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Lakehead Social History Institute will be hosting a free public workshop exploring "Photographs as Historical Evidence." Come out to the Mary J.L. Black Library to explore how photographs can be used in researching history.

More information to be posted closer to the event.
 
For more information contact shi@lakeheadu.ca
 
This event is co-sponosred by the Thunder Bay Public Library, Thunder Bay Museum, and the Lakehead University Department of History.

The Lakehead University History Society will be holding a social in The Outpost (or Study if closed) from 4 to 6 pm. All students, alumni, staff, and faculty are invited to come by!

The Lakehead University History Society will be holding a social in The Outpost (or Study if closed) from 4 to 6 pm. All students, alumni, staff, and faculty are invited to come by!

The Lakehead University History Society will be holding a social in The Outpost (or Study if closed) from 4 to 6 pm. All students, alumni, staff, and faculty are invited to come by!

You are invited to attend the Department of History's first Graduate Program Information Session for 2015 on 21 October, 10.00am – 11.30 am, RB3026

The Graduate Program Information Session allows you to get more information about the Department of History’s graduate program including the areas of expertise and the application process at Lakehead University. You will also have an opportunity to speak and meet with faculty members from our graduate program. Charisse Clark from the Faculty of Graduate Studies will also be there to answer any questions you may have about the application process.

If you have any questions about the information session you can contact the Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Pallavi Das, at pvdas@lakeheadu.ca