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

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

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

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

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Reflecting on Twenty Years of The Bachelor of Humanities

On Friday the 30th 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 by... More

Thursday, December 20, 2018

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

Thursday, December 20, 2018

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

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Seeing the Invisible in Renaissance Art: A Public Lecture

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Monday, October 22, 2018

New Course Winter 2019: CLCV 2906 Greek and Latin Scientific and Technical Terminology

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Friday, October 5, 2018

Critical, Creative, and Engaged

These three qualities, when put together, make for a tremendous force for social progress. This mobilizing spirit is evident in the personal and research aspirations of Barâa Arar, a fourth-year student in The College of Humanities. Her compassion—expressed through creative storytelling—inspires others to be more critical and compassionate.... More

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

New Course! CLCV2906 Greek and Latin Scientific and Technical Terminology

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Friday, September 7, 2018

Reflections on Gandhi, the Great Law of Peace and Indigenous Resurgence

The College of the Humanities, Carleton University and the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Council of Ottawa present the annual M.K. Gandhi Lecture in Peace and the Humanities: Reflections on Gandhi, the Great Law of Peace and Indigenous Resurgence Dr. Taiaiake Alfred, University of Victoria Dr. Taiaiake Alfred is from the Mohawk community of Kahnawáke... More

Thursday, February 22, 2018

The Two Skepticisms of David Hume

The College of the Humanities, Carleton University with support from The Institute for Liberal Studies Presents: Professor James Moore, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Concordia University The Two Skepticisms of David Hume Professor Moore’s general area of research is the history of political thought in the era of the... More

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Rantidi Forest Excavations Field School

The site of Lingrin tou Dhigeni is located in Southwestern Cyprus between Paphos and Limassol in the Kapsalia Plain near the Kha Potami river. It is the site of a sanctuary of a prophetic god who is believed to have been the consort of Paphian Aphrodite mentioned by Homer, whose main sanctuary was located... More

Friday, February 9, 2018

B.Hum Grad Amanda Clarke Named Research Excellence Chair

Amanda Clarke, Assistant Professor in Carleton’s School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), has been named the Faculty of Public Affairs’ Research Excellence Chair at the Assistant Professor level. “The committee was impressed by Dr. Clarke’s very strong research record, including her record of accomplishment in securing research... More

Friday, February 9, 2018

The Chapel of Theodotus in the church of S. Maria Antiqua, Rome

The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies in collaboration with the College of the Humanities, Carleton University and The Dante Alighieri Society of Ottawa presents an illustrated lecture 2:00 p.m., March 4th, 2018 Room 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University In January 1900, excavations in the Roman Forum at the foot of the Palatine Hill... More

Friday, February 9, 2018

Glebe Lecture: Varieties of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

February 22, 2018 at 7:00 PM Location: Glebe Community Centre Scotton Hall 75 Third Ave, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2 Cost: Free Timothy Pettipiece, The College of the Humanities, Carleton University The reign of the emperor Constantine saw the emergence of Christianity as the dominant religious ideology of the later Roman Empire. This dramatic shift... More

Friday, January 26, 2018

Petra Hohenstein

Petra Hohenstein completed a double major in Greek and Roman Studies and Theoretical Linguistics. She spent her undergraduate exploring her fascination of historical linguistics, doing an independent study in her last year on the evolution of the Latin language. While studying the Classics, Petra found she was baking sweets in her spare time more... More

Monday, January 22, 2018

Glebe Lecture January 25th: Plato’s Account of Sophistry

PUBLIC LECTURE Glebe Community Centre Thursday, January 25th, 2018 7:00 pm, Scotton Hall All are welcome to attend the lecture. Admission is free and open to the public. D. Gregory MacIsaac, The College of the Humanities, Carleton University D. Gregory MacIsaac is Associate Professor of Humanities at Carleton University. He has taught in the... More

Friday, January 19, 2018

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

Monday, January 8, 2018

Webinar January 24th: Classical Greece: A Carleton alumni trip with Shane Hawkins

Curious about the birthplace of democracy, theatre, western literature and philosophy? With its timeless art and architecture, Greece is still the center of our cultural imagination. Listen to Professor Shane Hawkins as he talks about some of the marvels you can expect to see firsthand on the upcoming 11 day small group trip to... More