{"id":4244,"date":"2018-05-02T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2018-05-02T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:21:20","slug":"20th-anniversary-ted-style-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/2018\/20th-anniversary-ted-style-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Anniversary &#8216;TED&#8217;-Style Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On Friday the 30<sup>th<\/sup> of September, 2016, the Bachelor of the Humanities program welcomed alumni and their families back to Carleton to <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2016\/reflecting-twenty-years-bachelor-humanities\/\">celebrate the program\u2019s 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary<\/a>. 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 by giving a series of TED-style talks on their current experience and expertise from the front of their old lecture-hall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;TED&#8217;-Style Talks<\/h2>\n<h3>Jen Carswell \u2014\u00a0&#8220;Humanities in 3Ds: Discover, Difficulty, Different&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5EXBf3ydBs4\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Melanie Coughlin \u2014\u00a0&#8220;Studying the Humanities from a Daoist Appreciation of the Usefulness of the Useless&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xmvIujLdXt4\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Jean-No\u00e9 Landry \u2014\u00a0&#8220;Contemplating and acting the Humanities in Kabul, with Russia&#8217;s Political Dissidents, and Jack Layton&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hzpAiKDYtTc\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Graeme O&#8217;Farrell \u2014\u00a0&#8220;Give the Kids Plato, or How Books Saved My Life&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vAQ7vwwC4J0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3>Dan Parker \u2014\u00a0&#8220;A Humanities Education is a Tool for Solidarity and Social Change&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mnfyAlfmBBA\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Faculty Address<\/h2>\n<h3>Waller R. Newell \u2014 &#8220;The Birth of the B.Hum.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Prof. Waller Newell addressed students and alumni, giving his reflections on the founding of the Bachelor of Humanities and its progress over the years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1NOwZAgD8jU\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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\u2019s 20th anniversary. 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