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Monday, October 27, 2014

President Obama and Canada: the final two years

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 River Building, Carleton University 4:45 p.m. – Registration 5:00 p.m. – Panel 6:30 p.m. – Reception The Honourable Jean Charest, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault Scotty Greenwood, Senior Advisor, Canadian American Business Council The Honourable John Manley, President and CEO, Canadian Council of Chief Executives... More

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Borders in Globalization Conference, Sept. 25-26, 2014 at Carleton

The Borders in Globalization (BIG) inaugural conference will be held at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, September 25-26, 2014. This is the first event that will invite all the partners of the project. The purpose is to launch research activities for the next six years, and to showcase and evaluate the initial research efforts... More

Monday, September 30, 2013

Release party October 4th: “Earth Observing Media” issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication

The special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication,
guest-edited by our colleague Chris Russill, has just been published.
 Entitled "Earth-Observing Media," it brings together eight articles by
leading scholars Canadian and American in a major contribution by
Communication researchers addressing a serious blind-spot in... More

Friday, September 20, 2013

The RCAS welcomes its two new Associate Directors

The Research Centre in American Studies is pleased to announce that Professors Michel Hogue (History) and Chris Russill (Communications) have become our new Associate Directors. After four years of service, Melissa Haussman and Andrew Johnston decided to take a break for a while from administration. Chris is an Associate Professor in the... More

Monday, September 16, 2013

Melissa Haussman will talk about her book: Reproductive Rights and the State

  AUTHOR MEETS READERS   Featuring Melissa Haussman who will talk about her book: Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, and Morning-After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the U.S. Market. Thursday, September 26, 2013 5:30-7:00 p.m. Irene's Pub 885 Bank St. Ottawa Author Melissa Haussman will be in... More

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Historian Edmund S. Morgan dies at age 97

Professor Emeritus at Yale University, Edmund Morgan was one of the leading American historians of his generation, specializing in colonial America. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1942 under the direction of Perry Miller, and went on to teach at Chicago, and Brown before settling at Yale in 1955 until his retirement there... More

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Latest issue of NeoAmericanist is out!

Together with the Centre for American Studies at the University of Western Ontario, the RCAS publishes the online journal NeoAmericanist. And volume 6, number 2 is not available at: http://www.neoamericanist.org. This edition includes Jacqueline M. Allain's "The demolition of public housing in American cities," Laurel Rogers on "Martrydom used... More

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Reading Group in American Studies

Beginning September 2012, English department graduate students and faculty have been holding a reading group focusing on new readings in American cultural studies. Meeting roughly once a month, the group reads book length studies on post '45 American culture and history as well as a small selection of fiction. The fall reading list included:... More

Thursday, January 17, 2013

New graduate seminar in American Studies, winter term 2013

Professor Franny Nudelman is offering a new graduate course in U.S. cultural studies this term. If you wish to contact her about it, write to: franny_nudelman@carleton.ca ENGL 5609/CLMD 6904 INTRODUCTION TO U.S. CULTURAL STUDIES Monday 2:30-5:30/201D St. Patrick's Building In this course, we will explore some of the issues and approaches that... More

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The War of 1812 in pictures: winning and losing in visual imagery

Jim Burant, the former Manager of the Art and Photography Archives at Library and Archives Canada, and currently an adjunct professor in Carleton’s School for Studies in Art and Culture, will be giving a FASS special guest lecture entitled “The War of 1812 in pictures: winning and losing in visual imagery.”  The talk will... More

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Panel discussion: the American elections of November 6, 2012

Continuities and Surprises: the American Elections of November 6, 2012 November 14, 2012, 2017 Dunton Tower 5 - 7 p.m. Panel participants: Professor Richard Fox (Loyola Marymount University Department of Political Science) Professor Michael Genovese (Loyola Marymount University Department of Political Science) Professor Jennifer Lawless (American... More

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Kanta Marwah profiled as National Arts Centre donor

The Centre's own Kanta Marwah (Economics) is profiled on the National Arts Centre's web page in gratitude for her long-time support for the creative arts in Ottawa. Check out the... More

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