Archives: Public Lectures

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

“Eat, Drink and Be Merry!” A Meaningless Hour with King Solomon & the Book of Ecclesiastes

Eat, Drink and Be Merry! A Meaningless Hour with King Solomon & the Book of Ecclesiastes Wednesday April 3rd – 7 pm Room 303 Paterson Hall in the College of the Humanities, Carleton University Performance and Audience Talkback FREE... More

Monday, March 4, 2024

Deirdre McCloskey Lecture March 6th 2024

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Monday, September 25, 2023

M.K. Gandhi Lecture Oct 1st 2023

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Monday, September 11, 2023

Rose Maguire Lecture 2023 Tomson Highway September 26

Rose Maguire Lecture 2023 Tomson Highway Sept... More

Friday, March 24, 2023

Public Talk “David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought”

Public Talk “David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought” The Public Talk with Dennis C. Rasmussen, Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University, is taking place March 30 from 4 to 6 p.m. in 303 Paterson Hall.  All are welcome and registration is not required. Prof. Rasmussen is the author of... More

Monday, February 13, 2023

Rose Maguire Lecture in the Humanities

March 2, 2023  7pm, 303 Paterson Hall Irene (Irena) R. Makaryk, Distinguished University Professor, Department of English, University of Ottawa ‘Wild and Whirling': Shakespeare, War, and Cabaret.  How can theatre effectively encompass the complexity of war, its irrationality, barbarism, as well as its moments of great humanity? Using... More

Monday, March 14, 2022

BHUM Career Night March 24th 2022

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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

2022 Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Lecture: Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

20th Anniversary ‘TED’-Style Talks

"On Friday the 30th of September, 2016, the Bachelor of the Humanities program welcomed alumni and their families back to Carleton to celebrate the program’s 20th anniversary. Faculty and former students caught up with each other at an informal pub-night and a gala dinner, and seven alumni turned the tables on their former professors... More

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Public Lecture — Being Modern: What the Enlightenment Can Still Teach Us — Wed. 27 May

Speaker: Professor Douglas Moggach The 18th century Enlightenment changed everything. “All that is solid melts into air,” as Karl Marx famously describes the modern world the Enlightenment inaugurates. Institutions, religious beliefs, cultural values, even the sense of ourselves as individuals and our place in nature and society: these are... More

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Glebe Lecture—Travels with my Professor: Libraries and Literatures by Train

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