News
Library Announces Winners of OpenCon Travel Scholarships
The University Library is pleased to report that Zack Batist (a PhD candidate from Anthroplogy) and Lorraine Chuen (a Masters student in Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour) have been awarded travel scholarships valued at $1,500 USD to attend OpenCon in Washington DC next month.
Events
New Writer-in-Residence launches "Not Your Mother's Book Club"
In the summer of 2009, his book The Peep Diaries was named as one of Oprah’s “25 Books You Can’t Put Down.”
Fast forward to 2014, and writer Hal Niedzviecki finds himself on campus as the Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer-in-Residence, co-sponsored by McMaster and the Hamilton Public Library.
How do you like them apples, McMaster?
The Lyons New Media Centre recently rolled out the red carpet for the third annual McMaster 24 Hour Film Festival gala event.
With popcorn in hand, McMaster students, alumni, staff and faculty gathered at the Art Gallery of Hamilton to screen the top ten festival entries and to announce the winning films, selected by a jury of industry specialists.
Echoes from the past: First World War song revived by McMaster student
To mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, McMaster music student Jason Scozzari revived a moving piece of Canadian wartime music.
The composition, "Days of Peace," was written by Herbert Kohler in 1915.
The original sheet music is housed in McMaster's extensive "War Songs from the First Half of 20th Century" collection, located in the Archives & Research Collection at Mills Memorial Library. Scozzari, who is entering his fourth year at McMaster this fall, performed the piece in Convocation Hall.
Mac's maps help solve Aussie grave mystery
McMaster's collection of First World War maps has helped put an end to the 84-year-old mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Private William Phillips' remains.
That's how long Phillips, an Australian soldier killed in the final months of the Great War, was buried beneath another man's headstone.
Katie Daubs, a reporter for the Toronto Star, is currently walking the Western Front and wrote about the story here.
An excerpt from the story is below:
First World War trench maps go digital through McMaster project
By Mark McNeil
A key strategy of First World War trench warfare involved sending pilots in flimsy planes on dangerous missions over European battlefields to take aerial photographs.
The pictures formed the basis of hand-drawn maps, hustled to officers for use as military intelligence and to front-line soldiers so they would know where to aim their artillery.
The information could mean the difference between winning and losing a battle.
Mac maps guide Toronto Star journalists across Western Front
By Wade Hemsworth
While two journalists from the Toronto Star are walking the Western Front, the man in charge of McMaster’s maps is keeping the team supplied with information that helps them understand exactly what they’re seeing and what it meant 100 years ago, when war gripped the countryside of Belgium and France in a grim and costly stalemate.
Author, activist Farley Mowat's legacy lives on at McMaster
Canadian literary icon and environmentalist Farley Mowat has died at the age of 92. A look through the writer’s vast archives show’s the broad scope of his celebrated career.
Musician and songwriter Ian Thomas donates his archives to McMaster
Ian Thomas has been making hits for more than 40 years, and now he is sharing the personal archives that document the many stages of his continuing career as an iconic Canadian musician and songwriter.
Second World War maps provide digital treasure for researchers around the world
A McMaster collection of 2,650 maps from the Second World War, once confined to paper, are now available to the world online.
Events
Lessons from the past: what ancient Jewish manuscripts teach us about inter-faith relations
Dr. Stefan Reif, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Hebrew Studies and Fellow of St. John’s College in the University of Cambridge will deliver the 2nd Meyer-Schreiber Lecture on Monday, November 11 at 7:30 PM in CIBC Hall (MUSC, 3rd floor). The lecture is free and open to the public.
McMaster archives home to detailed Alice Munro correspondence
Some of the Nobel Prize winner's correspondence with longtime publisher Douglas Gibson is housed in the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections.
