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Friday, February 28, 2014
These fun new camps are designed for kids between 7 and 10 years of age. They will take place during the first two weeks of August (5-8 August and 11-15 August). Campers will spend half the day engaged in sports and half the day engaged in creative art activities. At the end of each... More
I swear I had good intentions for this reading week. I was going to get through three novels and maybe start at least one of the four research papers that will be fast approaching as soon as March rolls around. I told myself and my quickly declining bank account that I was going to... More
Monday, February 24, 2014
Department of French Aventures en Nouvelle-France, hier et aujourd’hui Sébastien Côté, Department of French, Carleton University Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 4:00 – 5:30 pm 2017 Dunton Tower For more information, please contact: pascal_gin@carleton.ca Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture... More
The 2014 Marston LaFrance Lecture will take the form of a lecture/performance by Juno award-winning composer/percussionist and Associate Professor of Music in Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture, Jesse Stewart. Stewart will discuss the theoretical underpinnings of his creative practice, focusing in particular on two... More
Friday, February 21, 2014
As a devoted fan of international hockey, and already nursing my wounds from Arsenal’s previous night’s loss to Bayern in the Champions League, last Thursday afternoon I found myself pausing from time to time in order to check the score in the Olympic gold-medal game between the Canadian and American women’s... More
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Saturday, March 1, 2014, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Room 5050, 5th Floor, Minto Centre, Carleton University Featuring A Tribe Called Red Electric Pow Wow DJ/Producer crew Meryl McMaster Photo artist Sandra Laronde Director, Indigenous Arts, The Banff Centre Artistic Director, Red Sky Performance Michael Kusugak... More
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
This annual distinguished lecture was launched in 1985 to honour the founding chair of the Department of English and his contributions to literary studies in Canada. The event is sponsored by the Dean of FASS and the Department of English. An important principle of the lecture series has been to invite writers and critics... More
Monday, February 10, 2014
Institute of Cognitive Science Colloquium Series Coherence in the Visual Imagination: A Computational Model and Comparison Michael Vertolli of the Institute of Cognitive Science Thursday, February 13, 12:00 to 1 pm Room 2203 of Dunton Tower More information Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Founders Seminar The Impacts of Land-use... More
Tavis Apramian’s journey as a student has been a unique one. The first time he was forced to choose between two passions, he chose academia over athletics, but the second time he faced a decision between two passions, he chose ‘all of the above.’ Apramian is now flourishing in two very different fields –... More
Please join the College of the Humanities (Religious Studies) for a free public lecture by one of the world’s foremost Pali scholars. In this lecture, Dr. Steven Collins situates Buddhist meditation in the larger context of spiritual practices and technologies of the self. He begins by noting that “the denial that there is an... More
Wassily Kandinsky found that certain shapes, such as triangles and circles, were more often associated with particular colors. But the subsequent research has had trouble replicating these findings. In this Psychology Today blog entry, chosen as an “essential read,” Carleton University associate professor Jim Davies describes the... More
In thousands of classrooms across Canada, students sit in bolted-down chairs, periodically nodding off as a professor drones on for three hours straight. In these classes, a lecture truly lives up to its name. It’s not always pretty…Read more... More
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