Historical Thinking Summer Institute; DH2017 in Montreal; Shannon Lecture Series 2017; New Course Offerings; …
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.
August 8-11, 2017
Co-organised by McGill University and the Université de Montréal, DH2017 will take place August 8-11, 2017 in downtown Montréal, Canada on the campus of McGill University. This is the premiere annual conference of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). The theme of DH2017 is “Access/Accès”. Registration will close on August 1st.
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is an umbrella organisation whose goals are to promote and support digital research and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines, drawing together humanists engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, creation, dissemination, and beyond, in all areas reflected by its diverse membership. Visit the website for more information: https://dh2017.adho.org/
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
New Course Offering Open to History Students – PSCI 1500B
This course will explore the complex interdependence between the technologies we use to control the world, the ways we organize society and how humans have transformed nature. ‘Power’ is understood on multiple levels: including relations among humans, between humans and their technological creations, and humans the non-human natural world.
The course will examine specific technologies, including those that helped to define modernity (the printing press, firearms, chemical fertilizers, automobiles), and those that are shaping the future (the internet, artificial intelligence, bio-science). It will consider how technological trajectories have influenced, and been influenced by, political experiences and institutions (bureaucracy, human rights, inequality, globalization). And it will link this to the dramatic remolding of our planet and the altering of the human experience of nature.
PSCI 1500B is offered in the winter 2018 term by Professor James Meadowcroft. Class time is Friday 8.35.
Submit your comments – Capital Illumination Plan
The National Capital Commission (NCC) would like to know what you think of the draft Capital Illumination Plan, 2017–2027, the first strategy for illuminating the core area of the Capital.
You can complete the online questionnaire anytime between June 22 and July 9, 2017. Your comments will contribute to the final plan that will be presented to the NCC Board of Directors in the fall of 2017.
New web form for ‘Books Published by Faculty Members’
Starting June 26, MacOdrum Library is launching a new web form for books published by faculty members. The form provides our faculty with a mechanism to let the library know when they publish new books and gives them the option to donate a copy to the library’s collection. Those wishing to add books to our database may complete the form here.
New Course Offering Open to History Students – COMS 1000C
As media multiply and thrive, becoming an essential part of our everyday interconnected lives, important questions about how we live with, in, and through media become central to understanding our relationship to our devices and technologies and how we use them for socializing, leisure, entertainment, and working. Introduction to Communication and Media Studies offers students an introductory overview to the study of communications and media, emphasizing foundational and contemporary issues and debates in Media and Communications Studies. Together, we will examine the history and expansion of communication technologies and media as they have developed from speaking, writing, and print through to visual and audio forms such as photography, film, television, and music. We will then examine how the arrival of the computer and the Internet digitally transformed our relationship to older media forms and accelerated the emergence of new digital cultures such as video games and social media.