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Thursday, March 20, 2025 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Living on Borrowed Time? The Settlement of Mennonites in Imperial Russia after 1789

Wilfrid Laurier University professor, Leonard Friesen presents the first lecture in a series celebrating the publication of his book, Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation (University of Toronto Press, 2022). Sponsored by the Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies. Consider attending the second lecture.

Friday, March 21, 2025 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

More than Victims: Soviet Mennonites from Stalin to Gorbachev

Wilfrid Laurier University professor, Leonard Friesen presents a special lecture series celebrating the publication of his book, Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation (University of Toronto Press, 2022). Sponsored by the Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies. This is the second in the series. Consider attending the first lecture.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

"Like sleeping next to an elephant."

On March 26 at 7PM, Laurier Brantford's History program presents its biannual People Make History event, featuring a panel discussion on historical Canadian-American relations and contemporary links with Dr. Lara Campbell, Dr. Tim Cook, and Dr. Asa McKercher.

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Thursday, April 10, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Canadian Airmen in their finest hour, with Ted Barris

The Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 was the greatest aerial battle in history. In this talk at Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada,  uncovers the unknown stories of Canadian airmen, ground crew, as well as engineers, aeronautical designers, medical officers and civilians who answered the call and turned back the very real threat of Nazi invasion. Barris is an award-winning journalist, author, broadcaster and author of 22 best-selling non-fiction books.

Thursday, April 24, 2025 6:30 am - 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Ways We Remember War: The Second Battle of Ypres and Canada's Memory

Dr. Geoff Bird presents his new film, Ways We Remember War: The Battle of Second Ypres and Canada’s Memory, exploring how art, memorials and pilgrimage shape our understanding of Canada’s first battle of the First World War.  Lt. Col. John McCrae is represented in the film, along with artwork from the Canada War Museum, the Brooding Soldier in Belgium, and the landscape of war in Flanders.

Thursday, May 1, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The making of British Queer History: George Ives and his diary, 1886-1949

Join for an in-person lecture by from McGill University. George Cecil Ives (1867-1950) was a scion of the English gentry, a sexologist and a criminologist who founded a clandestine “gay rights” organization, the Order of Chaeronea, in the 1890s. More significantly for the historian, he wrote a massive diary, observing and chronicling a sexual revolution: the period when new categories of sexual and gendered identity crystallized in a complex interplay between emerging sexological science and queer subjects. This paper aims to capture the Ivesian bricolage, in context, during this time of momentous change.