Monday, March 1, 2021

Four DH MA Specialization students nominated for The DH Awards

Something to Celebrate! Let’s celebrate the fact that four of this year’s DH MA cohort have had worked nominated for The DH Awards, under three separate categories – best use of DH for public engagement, best DH data visualization, and best DH Response to COVID-19! These projects emerged from their course work in DIGH5000. The Digital... More

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Religion, Pandemics, and the Body Politic Tuesday, March 4, 7 p.m.

Religion, Pandemics, and the Body Politic with Professor Pamela E. Klassen, University of Toronto Tuesday, March 4, 7 p.m. Online via Zoom Webinar More details and registration here (Please register to receive the event link) In this lecture, I consider how the stories we tell to make sense of pandemics matter enormously for how... More

Friday, February 5, 2021

Thinking about pursuing an MA in Religion and Public Life?

Join us February 11 at 7pm for a panel discussion and Q&A about our unique, student-centered MA program. Hear from faculty, alumni, and current students about their experiences with the program, and the knowledge and skills gained from it. For more information, please contact Shawna.Dolansky@carleton.ca Register for the... More

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Intersections of Identity in Politics with Green Party leader Annamie Paul

Presented by Carleton's MA in Religion and Public Life, please join us online on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. for the first lecture from the 2021 Edgar & Dorothy Davidson Lecture Series with Annamie Paul, the leader of the Green Party of Canada. Paul will discuss her experience as a Black Jewish... More

Friday, December 18, 2020

Holiday Office Closure

The last day the (virtual) Humanities office will be open will be Wednesday December 23rd. It will re-open on Thursday January 7th. Winter term classes begin on Jan 11th. Wishing everyone a restful... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Student Storytellers: Creative Writing and the English Department at Carleton University

Despite the fact that the English Department’s Creative Writing Concentration was only formally established in 2011, the English Department at Carleton has a longstanding tradition of encouraging students in their creative-writing efforts. For many years, Carleton’s English Department has offered creative-writing workshops in fiction,... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Coffee and Philosophy!

Humanities Professor Gregory MacIsaac continued his practice of selling “Coffee and Philosophy” at this year’s Great Glebe Garage sale, on the 28th of May. Sitting on his front porch, he charged passersby $1 for a shot of espresso, and 50¢ for a supplement of Philosophy. Customers could choose from a menu featuring topics... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Accepted to Oxford Law from the Bachelor of Humanities Program

Recent graduate of the Bachelor of Humanities program, Leonor Vulpe Albari, has just received some very exciting news. Albari, who graduated from Carleton in 2014 and is now in the midst of wrapping up a Master’s of Law (LLM) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has just learned that she has been accepted to... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Humanities Student Accepted to Harvard Law School

Fourth-year student in the Bachelor of Humanities (HUMS), Roy Sengupta was recently offered admission to an array of prestigious graduate school opportunities ( alongside fellow HUMS student, Lulu Vulpe Albari), including admittance to Harvard’s the eminent Harvard Law School. Although an undergraduate education in the liberal arts may not... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Crafting Authentic Digital Learning

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

REVISED VERSION – Blog by Prof. Deidre Butler, Travel Course to the ‘Holy Land’

Updated – Spaces are still available. Apply now! Masada. The Gardens of Gethsemane. The Bahai Gardens. The Al Aqsa Mosque. The Western Wall. In May 2018, Carleton students will again be traveling to the ‘Holy Land’ and walking through these ancient sites, experiencing them not only as travelers but as young scholars. The travel... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Paige’s Blog – On learning, re: my life in pieces

Snip, snip, go the scissors of the Fates. Sometimes, my life lies in pieces around me. Consider my apartment: books everywhere, post-it notes with lists of readings, essays to edit; literal pieces (of literature) splay my education languorously across minimal square footage. There is a papered materiality to studying English that I cannot escape.... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Reflecting on Twenty Years of The Bachelor of Humanities

On Friday the 30 th of September, 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, November 18, 2020

SANTHARA – A Challenge to Indian Secularism

Supported by the College of the Humanities and the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Fund in Religious Studies, attend a screening of SANTHARA, an award-winning documentary by Shekhar Hattangadi, a Mumbai, India-based columnist, law professor, and film-maker. Hattangadi’s interest in the interface between secular law and religious ritual has... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Debating Plato: A Non-Traditional Learning Experience

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. — Plato, Republic 536e Associate Professor in the College of the Humanities, Gregory MacIsaac must have been aware of these words when he held a very non-traditional course on the fourth-century Greek philosopher, Plato. Professor MacIsaac ventured outside the confines... More

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Why the humanities are a good choice for university-bound students

Fellow parents of grade 12 students: Anxiety is something that we’re all struggling to live with these days, but if your teen is graduating from high school this year, you may be dealing with even more soul-searching, gut-wrenching stress – theirs, but also your own. How to advise? What makes a good life? You... More

Friday, July 10, 2020

BHUM Student Heather Sutcliffe and the Students as Partners Program

Heather Sutcliffe and Professor Micheline White were successful in their application for Heather to work as part of the Students as Partners Program (SaPP) 2020 program. Heather is working on a project for HUMS 3000 called: “diversifying the curriculum.” She is researching and helping to create new modules on seventeenth-century North American... More

Monday, March 16, 2020

Important Message for Students in the College

To all undergraduate and graduate students in the College of the Humanities, I am reaching out in order to communicate a few things about the College and the remarkable situation we are now experiencing. I want to reassure you that the College is working with the University to ensure that we can finish the... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Maurice Price Foundation Travel Bursary 2020, Deadline: March 15th

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Monday, January 27, 2020

Grieving the Loss of Dr. Stephen Wilson

The College of the Humanities is saddened by the loss of their colleague, Professor Stephen Wilson. More information on Steve and the funeral, can be found... More

Monday, January 20, 2020

Free Public Lecture: The Exodus – Myth or History?

PDF Poster PUBLIC LECTURE The Exodus – Myth or History? Shawna Dolansky College of the Humanities, Carleton University The Bible commands its readers to tell their children the story of the Exodus; but biblical scholarship and archaeology of the 20th and 21st centuries have increasingly cast doubt on the fact that the Exodus actually happened... More

Monday, November 4, 2019

Free Public Lecture: Jane Austen, Dinosaurs, and a Female Fossil Hunter

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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Israel Travel Course 2020

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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Free Public Lecture: Alexander von Humboldt’s Empire of knowledge – Enlightenment Science in the Frame of Politics

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Monday, September 30, 2019

The 2019 Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Lecture

Naamiwan’s Drum: Repatriation and the animacy of ceremonial objects Maureen Matthews Thursday, October 3, 2019 7:30pm Paterson Hall, Room 303 All Welcome Reception to Follow Maureen Matthews is the Curator of Cultural Anthropology at the Manitoba Museum where her most recent exhibit “We Are All Treaty People”, developed in collaboration with... More

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Free Public Lecture: Alleviating the Clash of Ignorance – Combating Islamophobia through Religious Literacy

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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

A Dramatic Reading of Sophocles’ Antigone

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Monday, January 21, 2019

Glebe Lecture This Thursday: Dreaming and Dreamers in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhism

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Thursday, December 20, 2018

Humanities Alumna’s Novel is a Finalist for Canada Reads

College of the Humanities alumna, Saleema Nawaz (BHum/’03), has been named as a Canada Reads finalist for her debut novel Bone and Bread. This year’s edition of Canada Reads is themed “Starting Over.” Each of the finalists will be represented by a famous Canadian in a series of debates hosted by Gill Deacon which... More

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Humanities Student Accepted to Harvard Law School

Fourth-year student in the Bachelor of Humanities (HUMS), Roy Sengupta was recently offered admission to an array of prestigious graduate school opportunities (alongside fellow HUMS student, Lulu Vulpe Albari), including admittance to Harvard’s the eminent Harvard Law School. Although an undergraduate education in the liberal arts may not be... More

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Coffee and Philosophy!

Humanities Professor Gregory MacIsaac continued his practice of selling “Coffee and Philosophy” at this year’s Great Glebe Garage sale, on the 28th of May. Sitting on his front porch, he charged passersby $1 for a shot of espresso, and 50¢ for a supplement of Philosophy. Customers could choose from a menu featuring topics such... More

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Accepted to Oxford Law from the Bachelor of Humanities Program

Recent graduate of the Bachelor of Humanities program, Leonor Vulpe Albari, has just received some very exciting news. Albari, who graduated from Carleton in 2014 and is now in the midst of wrapping up a Master’s of Law (LLM) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has just learned that she has been accepted to a variety... More

Thursday, December 20, 2018

SANTHARA – A Challenge to Indian Secularism

Supported by the College of the Humanities and the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Fund in Religious Studies, attend a screening of SANTHARA, an award-winning documentary by Shekhar Hattangadi, a Mumbai, India-based columnist, law professor, and film-maker. Hattangadi’s interest in the interface between secular law and religious ritual has resulted... More

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Debating Plato: A Non-Traditional Learning Experience

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. — Plato, Republic 536e Associate Professor in the College of the Humanities, Gregory MacIsaac must have been aware of these words when he held a very non-traditional course on the fourth-century Greek philosopher, Plato. Professor MacIsaac ventured outside the confines... More

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Student Storytellers: Creative Writing and the English Department at Carleton University

Despite the fact that the English Department’s Creative Writing Concentration was only formally established in 2011, the English Department at Carleton has a longstanding tradition of encouraging students in their creative-writing efforts. For many years, Carleton’s English Department has offered creative-writing workshops in fiction,... More