Welcome!

Wednesday, October 10, 2018
10am-2pm

Thank you for your interest in History at Western. We are excited for the chance to meet you and to give you a glimpse into what studying History at university is like!

Please contact history-inquiries@uwo.ca to register.

Sessions

We have a variety of sessions scheduled throughout the day including lectures, mini-tutorials and, hands-on interactive sessions.

Lectures

Canadian Gladiators: Sports Spectacles in Modernizing Canada
Close Reading: The Historian as Detective
Cutting & Bleeding: A History of Medicine with Objects
Hard Road to Freedom: African American Protest from 1620 to 2018
A History of Alien Invasions of Earth
"If the Kids are United": Punk Rock and Why You Should Care
Killing Fields: Genocide in Modern History
Nazi Paparazzi: Is a Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words?
"Shiver Me Timbers!" Pirates & Piracy in the Public Imagination

Mini-Tutorials

Build Your Own Memorial
Concentration Camps
Egypt and the West
Famous American Murder Trials
Gossip Girl and New York City
Shark Attacks
Shell Shock to PTSD
Understanding Chinese Culture
War Veterans and Mental Health

Students will attend 3 sessions throughout the day. When registration opens you will be able to select the sessions you want to participate in.

The final session of the day will be a Multimedia Interactive Historical Extravaganza!

Registration closes September 28th, 2018.

Schedule

The day will begin at 10am with a general introduction. After that, students and teachers will break into their sessions. A free lunch will be provided, as well as drinks and snacks throughout the day. Sessions will end at 1:45 to allow teachers and students to regroup and board busses between 1:45-2pm.

Introduction: 10:00am-10:30am

Session A: 10:40am-11:20am

Session B/Lunch group 1: 11:30am-12:10pm

Session C/Lunch group 2: 12:20pm-1:00pm

Session D: 1:10pm-1:40pm

Transfer to busses: 1:45-2pm

If you have any questions, please email history-inquiries@uwo.ca.

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