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September 2025
Please, mark your calendars and save the following dates for the 2025 Joanne Goodman Lectures!
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Thursday, September 25, 2025
All sessions will take place from 2:30 to 4:30 pm ET at Great Hall, Sommerville House, Rm 3326.
PLEASE RSVP here.
This fall the Department of History will celebrate the semi-centennial of the Goodman Lecture Series. Endowed by the Goodman family in 1975 in memory of their daughter Joanne, these lectures have brought outstanding historians of the United States, Canada, and Britain/British Empire to Western to present their research. The lecturers also engage with our undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and community members. For half a century, the Goodman lectures have delivered research excellence and engaged and enriched the university and our community. The annual talks are widely considered Canada’s most prestigious history lecture series.
The 2025 Symposium will host three speakers: Professor Martha S. Jones from Johns Hopkins University, Professor Dennis M. Pilon from York University, and Professor Jan-Werner Müller from Princeton University to discuss this year's topic "The State of Democracy". Please see the poster attached.
