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Last updated: Friday, December 06, 2024

Study Abroad Course, South Africa June 15-30^th 2025

(Application deadline extended until December 23, 2024)

The study abroad course (AFRI 3100 or AFRI 5100) allows students to study a selected topic in African Studies with a Carleton professor in an African country (or countries) in which the professor carries out research. The students also learn from experts on the topic in the African country.
The course is open to African Studies majors, minors, graduate students, and other interested students, provided they have an African studies background.
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God’s Waiting Room: Images of Care in Poetic Form

We are delighted to invite you to the seventh webinar of the series “Images, Ageing and Care”: God’s Waiting Room: Images of Care in Poetic Form – webinar with Casey Golomski

Date and time:Monday, 9th December 18:00-19:30 CET, 17:00-18: 30 GMT, 12:00-13:30 Eastern,
Venue:Zoom: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/93360548693
Meeting ID: 933 6054 8693

Moderator: Cati Coe, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Migration and Care (Tier 1), Carleton University

ABOUT THE TALK: A new work of creative nonfiction, God’s Waiting Room (Rutgers University Press and Wits University Press) flips the script on racial discrimination in US long term care, showing how older ‘racist’ whites and their black nurses find grace together among their ghosts and despite the odds.

Set thirty years after apartheid in South Africa, it features the untold story of Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island Prison nurse as well as stories of queer older adults and healthcare providers, teaching us how racism, ageism, and sexism impact where we end up, who cares, and what matters in the end.

While grounded in seven years of ethnographic research, the book is narrated as taking place in a single day and employs color photos and visually striking elements of poetic form, translation, and prose. This seminar offers a window into the author’s creative process, situating these narrative elements within histories of imagistic and ethnographic poetry and relating the book to recent imagistic approaches in the anthropology of aging, care, and the Otherwise.

BIO: A creative writer and cultural and medical anthropologist, Casey Golomski is a Department Chair and Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire, with visiting appointments at the universities of Pretoria and the Witwatersrand. He is the author of the book Funeral Culture (Indiana University Press) and many articles, special issues, and poems in anthropology, African and Black studies, and literary journals. ABOUT THE WEBINAR SERIES ON IMAGES, AGEING AND CARE

This webinar series – free and open to all- gathers anthropologists and image-makers interested in exploring the ontological and epistemological connections between images, aging and care, treating the relationship and these phenomena as requiring and inviting interrogation. It is sponsored by the Images of Care Collective, the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course (AAGE), EASA’s Age and Generations Network (AgeNet) and the Network for Visual Anthropology of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (VANEASA). You can see our past webinars here.

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Shannon Lectures: Black Histories and Futures of Science and Technology

Lecture #3: Em(Body)ing Paradoxes: The Enduring Power of Pseudo-Science and the Myth of the “Natural” Black Athlete

With Dr. Ornella Nzindukiyimana, Associate Professor in Human Kinetics St. Francis Xavier University

Date: December 9, 2024, at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Venue: Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre at 355 Cooper St.

Description: The study of sporting bodies—like sport itself—are products of Western modernity. The larger-than-life figure of the Black athlete emerged at the turn of the 20th century alongside White European ‘sciences’ of human performance. Ensuing racist tales and fables of Black ‘natural’ physicality still permeate popular consciousness. In this talk, I map how such fantastical readings, legitimized by science and the White gaze, entrench a denial of Black self-determination, while inspiring a counternarrative Black imagination and mythologies.

Biography: Born in Kigali, Rwanda, Dr. Ornella Nzindukiyimana (pronounced nzee-ndoo-key-yee-mah-nah) arrived in Ottawa, Canada at twelve years old. An avid soccer fan, she went on to pursue a Human Kinetics degree at the University of Ottawa (2011). In the last senior BSc year, she developed an interest in research after completing an honours project on Ottawa’s public baths in theearly 20th century. The rest was history—sport history. She went on to complete an MA at Ottawa in 2013 (on Black Canadian history of swimming) and then a PhD at Western University in London, ON in 2018 (on Black women’s sport history in Ontario). Read more and RSVP.

The Great Rescue: Indigenous Knowledge and Restorative Development in Africa

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | 1:00-2:30 PM EST | Zoom

The Institute of African Studies invites you to join our upcoming Brownbag Seminar Series for a thought-provoking discussion on “The Great Rescue: Indigenous Knowledge and Restorative Development in Africa.“

Speakers:

Dr. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Assistant Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University
Dr. Evelyn N. Mayanja, Assistant Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University.

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Sciences Graduate Studies Fair

Saturday, November 2, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm

Join us on Saturday, November 2 at Carleton University for our Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Studies Fair! We’ve invited current graduate students and faculty members from our diverse graduate programs to celebrate the research and scholarship happening at Carleton through informative panel sessions and casual Q&As. This event is meant for those who are curious about continuing onto graduate studies. You will have the chance to chat with representatives from our programs who will be on hand to address any questions you may have. Registered guests will also be offered a complimentary lunch. Read more