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Below are events taking place soon as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will now be sent out each week with upcoming events and announcements.) Departmental events are also posted on our website.
Events
July 17-22, 2017
Historical Thinking Summer Institute
The Historical Thinking Summer Institute is designed for teachers, curriculum developers, professional development leaders, historians, museum educators and curators who want to enhance their expertise at designing history programs, courses, units, lessons, projects, or educational resources that explicitly focus on historical thinking.
Attendees of the 2017 Historical Thinking Summer Institute will participate in a variety of activities including presentations and workshops, learning activities at the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum, discussions of readings, guest lectures, and group work to explore six historical thinking concepts: evidence, significance, continuity & change, cause & consequence, perspective-taking, and the ethical dimension of history. For more information visit http://www.canadashistory.ca/HTSI.
September-December 2017
Shannon Lecture Series for 2017
The History Department’s Shannon Lecture Series for 2017, will commence on September 22, 2017 with more details to be posted as they become available. This year’s lecture series looks at Expo 67 as the highlight of Canada’s centennial. A world’s fair held in Montreal, it dazzled the world with its daring architecture, innovative exhibits, and high-minded theme, “Man and His World.” Many Canadians regarded it as Canada’s coming-out party, a moment when the young nation burst into the international limelight and strutted its stuff to universal acclaim. Substitute “Quebec” or “Indigenous Peoples” for “Canada” in the previous sentence and it would be equally true – Expo 67 was a rich, multivalent spectacle that generated diverse messages. In Canada’s 150th anniversary year, the Carleton Department of History is revisiting Expo 67 to reflect upon the meaning of it all. A select group of lecturers will address key topics such as Expo’s intellectual origins, how it became a proud emblem of modernization for both Canadian and Quebec nationalists, its impact on Indigenous rights and culture, and its iconic stature in the histories of architecture and cinema. X out the dates in your calendar to experience exposition by Expo experts that will expand your mind exponentially. Visit the Shannon Lectures website for more information as it becomes available: https://carleton.ca/history/news/shannon-lecture/.
Announcements
Research Assistant Opportunity for students
Job Description: Temporary position as a Research Assistant available for an interested student who would be willing to visit Library and Archives Canada to undertake research on a current history project on the history of vaccination policy in Canada. Duties would include file copying and organization. No research experience necessary to undertake this job, but applicants with access to a camera would be preferred. Pay would be $20/hour, for up to 30 hours of work, with the chance of extending the research if more funding comes in for the project.
If interested, please send an e-mail to paula.larsson@new.ox.ac.uk with your contact information, and a general description of your program, experience, and availability over the summer months.
IRCC Student Job Fair – IRCC National Headquarters
IRCC is holding a Student Job Fair on June 28, 2017 from 11AM to 3PM here at our National Headquarters at 365 Laurier Ave W aimed at students and recent graduates.