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Sunday, August 27, 2017

The ‘Other’ Border: Canada and the United States fellowships

IFUSS: The International Forum for U.S. Studies: A Center for the Transnational Study of the United States, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL/USA http://www.ifuss.illinois.edu/ President Trump's election has drawn increased attention to the U.S.-Mexico border, but it has also resulted in changes on the northern U.S. border. In response... More

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Brexit, Trumpism and the Rise of Populism: Economic Disadvantage or Cultural Backlash?

Political Science Public Talk Brexit, Trumpism and the Rise of Populism: Economic Disadvantage or Cultural Backlash? Pippa Norris, Paul. F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, John. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Pippa Norris, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, and she has taught at Harvard for two... More

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

TRUMP NATION: Reflections on the 2016 American Election Panel Discussion

TRUMP NATION Reflections on the 2016 American Election Panel discussion with: - Melissa Haussman, Political Science - Daniel McNeil, History - Lindsay Rodman, Former Director, U.S. National Security Council - Steve Saideman, NPSIA - Rebecca Schein, Human Rights   Wednesday 16 November 5:30-7pm Bell Theatre Minto Building... More

Friday, October 14, 2016

Ginsberg’s Snapshots: Beats, Bohemians and Social Magic

Carleton University Art Gallery will be hosting a talk by Robert Holton, as part of our exhibition “We are continually exposed to the flashbulb of death”: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg (1953 – 1996). If you can, please join us for his talk: Ginsberg’s Snapshots: Beats, Bohemians and Social Magic. And please spread the word to anyone... More

Friday, October 7, 2016

The Whole World is Watching: Foreign Policy and the U.S. Presidential Election

Ambassador Derek Shearer, Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College, and former Canadian Ambassador to Finland will be speaking about foreign policy and the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The event is sponsored by the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5.00 - 7.00 p.m.... More

Friday, September 9, 2016

Anne Sisson Runyan: Disposable Waste, Lands,and Bodies, Monday September 12, 2016

Anne Sisson Runyan is Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in North American Integration at York University for Fall 2016. Her books include Global Gender Issues, Gender and Global Restructuring, and Feminist (Im)Mobilities in... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Melissa Haussman talks to CBC’s Adrian Harewood about Super Tuesday

RCAS political scientist Melissa Haussman was interviewed on CBC Ottawa on Tuesday March 1 to give her thoughts—as an American citizen and a former campaigner for Hillary Clinton—on Super Tuesday. The entire show can be found at: http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2684724897 Melissa's interview starts at the 30 minute... More

Friday, February 5, 2016

The Florida Highwaymen exhibition

In celebration of Black History Month, Saw Gallery (67 Nicholas St.) is hosting the Canadian premier of an exhibition of art by the Florida Highwaymen. These were a group of African American artists, mostly self-taught, mostly from Fort Pierce, Florida, who traveled throughout the state painting and selling their works door to door. Starting... More

Friday, July 10, 2015

Dr. Wilfried Mausbach, Exec. Dir. of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies to be a visiting scholar this summer

Dr. Mausbach, the executive director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at Heidelberg University, comes to Carleton this July and August as a participant in the Ontario Baden-Württemberg exchange program. He is working on a larger research project called "Visions of Community: America and Europe in a Cold War World, 1948-1963",... More

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Michel Hogue publishes Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (2015)

Congratulations to Michel Hogue (History) for the launching of his acclaimed book Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (University of North Carolina Press/ University of Regina Press, 2015). These words, including the stellar reviews, are from the jacket: Born of encounters between Indigenous women and... More

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Tribute to Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)

Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman died June 11, 2015. Read a small tribute to him on our blog... More

Monday, November 10, 2014

“Projecting the Archive”: Kent Mackenzie’s “The Exiles”

Thursday, 13 November 2014, 6:00 p.m. In a screening series organized by Carleton’s Film Studies program and Carleton University Art Gallery, join us for a presentation of Kent Mackenzie’s rare film, “The Exiles.” Released in 1961, the film chronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the... More

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