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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Education Without Liberal Arts is a Threat to Humanity

Education without liberal arts is a threat to humanity, argues UBC President From engineering to medicine, we have more elaborate and specialized professions than ever. But the academic programs that prepare people for them will have little impact on the health of society unless we develop a sense of the human condition. That's 'job... More

Monday, October 21, 2019

November Glebe Talk: Emma Peacocke “Jane Austen, Dinosaurs, and a Female Fossil Hunter”

November 21 Glebe Talk Emma... More

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

The 2019 Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Lecture

Naamiwan's Drum: Repatriation and the animacy of ceremonial objects Maureen Matthews Thursday, October 3, 2019 7:30pm Paterson Hall, Room 303 All Welcome Reception to Follow Maureen Matthews is the Curator of Cultural Anthropology at the Manitoba Museum where her most recent exhibit "We Are All Treaty People", developed in collaboration with... More

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Gandhi and Human Rights

MGPC Annual Lecture... More

Friday, September 20, 2019

2020 Bachelor of Humanities High School Essay Contest

The Bachelor of Humanities Carleton University's Bachelor of Humanities is Canada's premier program in the Great Books. Humanities students read the most influential books and study the most exciting ideas in all the traditional arts disciplines—literature, philosophy, history, art, music, political theory, and religion. Students in the... More

Monday, September 16, 2019

BHUM Specialty Tour November 23rd 2019

Specialty Tours Carleton holds regular Specialty Tours for the Bachelor of Humanities, where you can meet faculty and students, and learn more about the program.  The next one will be held on November 23rd 2019.  Other sessions will be held on February 1, 2020 & April 4, 2020.  You can register... More

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

B. HUM Welcome Reception 2019

BHUM Welcome Reception... More

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

College of the Humanities Summer 2019 Internship

Maeve Mcmahon under the supervision of Professor Yukai Li will be investigating the ways in which translation of Homeric epics completed by men and by women differ from one another in their interpretations of Helen of Troy.... More

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Maurice Price Foundation Summer Research Internship Recipient Summer 2019

Congratulations to Linda Steele, the recipient of the 2019 Maurice Price Foundation Summer Research Internship. Under the supervision of Professor Randi Klebanoff, Linda will be studying Renaissance art images of maternal grief and how studying these images could be applied to helping mothers of today work through their perinatal losses.... More

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

High School Essay Contest Winners 2019

The winners of this year’s Bachelor of Humanities High School Essay Contest have been chosen. The top prize has been awarded to Odessa Hewitt-Bernhard for her essay entitled “Uncertainty, Humanity, and the Quest for Understanding”. The recipient of the second prize is Jia Jun Liu for the essay “Does Truth Matter?” Congratulations to our... More

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

A Dramatic Reading of Sophocles’ Antigone

Poster... More

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Humanities Colloquium

Dear College of the Humanities faculty, staff and students: We would like to invite you to attend the Fourth Annual 2019 College of the Humanities Colloquium! The colloquium will take place this Saturday, March 9th 2019. We welcome you to join us for breakfast refreshments (tea, coffee, bagels) at 9:30am. Lunch will also be provided. The... More

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