Upcoming Events/Opportunities
✨ Fall 2025 Student Orientation
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Location: UFV Abbotsford campus
Draft schedule:
- 9:00am - Arts Faculty Welcome Session (South gym)
- 9:45am - Arts Faculty Fair (volleyball court south of building S)
Kick off your university experience at UFV’s Day ONE Orientation! Connect with your faculty, explore the campus, and get ready for an exciting year ahead.
To register and learn more, visit: Tl'etl'axel: student orientation - Day One: Welcome to campus
🎓 Graduate Studies Fair
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Time: 2:00-4:00pm
Location: Abbotsford campus, building K, room K150 (south patio)
Thinking About Grad School?
The Academic Advising Centre is hosting a Graduate Studies Fair to support students exploring options for further education after graduation. The History Department will have a table at the fair—stop by to connect with faculty, learn about graduate programs, and ask your questions!
🏫 UFV Open House
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Time: 10:00am-2:00pm
Location: Abbotsford campus main gym, (building E)
Past Events/Opportunities
Sixth Annual History Honours Student Conference
May 22, 2025, 2:00-4:00pm, Abbotsford campus, building K, room K180. Seats are limited. For more info and to reserve a seat, email historyinfo@ufv.ca.
2025 Student Panelists:
Maggie Meyers - "Where the Dead Must Go: Vampires of the White Death in 18th and 19th Century New England"
Brad Duncan - “Cementing the Divide: How Progressive Housing Reform Entrenched Inequality in Post-
War Chicago” (Working Title)
Grace Pope - "The Divide Between Ideal and Reality: Hegemonic Masculinity Within the Third Reich”
History Dept. Annual Majors, Award Nominees, & Graduates Social (MAGS)
May 22, 2025, 5:30-7:30pm, Abbotsford campus. Email invites will be sent early May.
Visiting Scholar Talk: "Classroom Incivility Going Viral on Social Media: One Professor’s Encounters" presented by Dr. Jon Anuik, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1:00-2:30pm, Abbotsford campus, room K180. Light refreshments provided. Contact historyinfo@ufv.ca.
About the talk: Historians recognize the need to teach about the history and contemporary impacts of residential schools in Canada. Similarly, we know now that the opportunity to learn about the schools exists outside classrooms. In my talk, I draw from a special issue on social media and educational foundations to show how applications such as Instagram and X have an impact on teaching in the standard classroom. The concept of classroom civility, which was originally a pedagogical understanding in the conventional classroom, informs how one can understand how conflicts in class can continue in the digital realm. In this case, the conflict involved an assignment on residential schooling and reaction to it on X and Instagram. I share lessons in learning for how one can address incidents of classroom incivility related to instruction on residential schools that occur on social media.
The talk is based on the special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jcie/index.php/jcie
History Department & AHS Trivia Night
March 19, 2025, 5:00-6:30pm, Abbotsford campus, building K, room K180.
Come and test out your trivia knowledge! Meet some new people, enjoy some fun history trivia and maybe win a prize! Food and drink provided. Registration required, email historyinfo@ufv.ca by March 10to reserve your seat.
History Department Winter 2025 Film Series
Join us on Friday, March 14, 2025, 2:30-5:00pm, Abbotsford campus, building D, room D119 for the second film, A Day in New York 1882. Snacks & beverages provided. For more info email Aleksandar.Jovanovic@ufv.ca or Ian.Rocksborough-Smith@ufv.ca.
Annual History Tea
March 11, 2025, 11:30am-1:30pm. Abbotsford campus. This event is by invite.
History Department Winter 2025 Film Series
Join us on Friday, February 7, 2025, 2:30-5:00pm, Abbotsford campus, building D, room D119 for the first film, Legendary Cities: Bangkok and Athens. Snacks & beverages provided. For more info email Aleksandar.Jovanovic@ufv.ca or Ian.Rocksborough-Smith@ufv.ca.