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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

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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

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Lecture: Immigration Ethics – The Moral Case for Open Borders

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Friday, November 30, 2018

Studying in Italy 2018

By B.Hum student Linda Steele. October 10, 2018 Our first week in Venice Friday November 3rd, 2018 There is More to Italy than Venice Friday November 30th, 2018 The Real Venice Friday January 25th Home at Last from Venice: Ruminations of a Weary... More

Friday, October 5, 2018

Critical, Creative, and Engaged

These three qualities, when put together, make for a tremendous force for social progress. This mobilizing spirit is evident in the personal and research aspirations of Barâa Arar, a fourth-year student in The College of Humanities. Her compassion—expressed through creative storytelling—inspires others to be more critical and compassionate.... More

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

2019 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

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Carleton’s First Bachelor of Journalism and Humanities Graduate

By Matt Gergyek If you asked your average working journalist how their profession connects to the field of humanities or vice versa, you’d probably leave them stumped. The ancient worlds of Plato and Aristotle and the study of history, philosophy and art – the foundations of the humanities discipline – aren’t usually seen as... More

Monday, June 4, 2018

Maurice Price Summer Internship

Congratulations to Beverly Osazuwa for receiving the first Maurice Price Summer Internship for the College of the Humanities. Beverly explains: "My research project explores the ways in which African women, during the Era of Independence, constructed their identities in a space between the political and literary standards set by African men and... More

Friday, May 11, 2018

High School Essay Contest Winners

We are pleased to be able to announce the winners of this year’s Bachelor of Humanities Essay Contest. The author of the winning entry is William Dunstan of St-Matthew’s High School in Ottawa. Our runner-up is Sena Cleave of Nanaimo District Secondary School. Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to everyone who participated!... More

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