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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Registration is now open for the 16th Annual Carleton University Heritage Conservation Symposium. This year’s event, guided by the aim of working “Towards Reparative Futures”, will share original research, case studies, design projects, and other forms of creative production that examine the intersections of social justice and heritage... More
Monday, March 18, 2024
UPDATED Apr 12.2024: Thank you to everyone who joined us for the PHPN Reception on April 3, 2024. We were honoured to have you with us. For more information on our event including our spotlighted authors, Carleton Department of History announcements, recent works in Public History, and partner highlights, please check out our digital... More
Thursday, February 29, 2024
After a 5 year hiatus, we are pleased to announce the return of the Public History Partnership Network (PHPN) Annual Reception! Please Save the Date for Wed April 3, 2024 from 7-9pm (doors at 6:30pm). The Public History Partnership Network (PHPN) connects Ottawa-area professionals, graduate students, and university faculty with an interest in... More
Thursday, January 12, 2023
UPDATED Feb 3.2023: Thank you for all who attended the launch of the oral history archive, Enghelab Shod: Remembering the 1979 Revolution, on February 2, 2023. We were honoured to have you with us. We invite you to further explore the collected memories at www.enghelabshod.ca... More
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Shannon Lectures, Winter 2023 Convenor: Professor Joanna Dean, Department of History, Carleton University. Climate Histories A series of Monday night lectures on the history of weather and climate, held at 7 PM Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa, or online. Sponsored by the Shannon Endowment through the Department of... More
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Book your calendars - the International Federation of Public History (IFPH) has announced that the 2024 World Conference of Public History will take place in September 2024 at the University of Luxembourg with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). The conference will be fully hybrid for to allow for global... More
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Cultural Memory Workshops (CMW) was created to explore questions of cultural memory and exchange ideas around the subject. Cultural memory engages with the presence of the past in contemporary culture, and all of the sessions have been open to the public. These events have been held locally in Ottawa from 2017-2018. Workshops were... More
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada In 2008, the Centre’s James Opp and John C. Walsh held a SSHRC–funded, interdisciplinary workshop on the interconnected themes of place and memory in Canada. The event brought together scholars from across Canada to discuss topics including British Columbia’s Japanese Canadian National Archive... More
Photographing Industrial History In July 2014 a group of volunteer photographers from the Workers’ History Museum (WHM) began creating a stunning visual archive to capture and preserve the histories and memories of spaces where thousands once worked at the E.B. Eddy pulp and paper plant. When the project came to an end they had... More
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