Archives: Public Lectures

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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