Below are upcoming events as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will be sent out each week with upcoming events and announcements.) Departmental events are also posted on our website.
Events
April 20, 2018
“Cultural Policy and Economic Development, 1967-1982” featuring Dr. Sarah Brouillette from the Department of English Language & Literature. Between 1967 and 1982 UNESCO organized dozens of meetings dedicated to the discussion of cultural policy. These meetings were the first sustained attempt to think about how governments could and should be disposed toward cultural funding and administration. This talk argues that this rise of the cultural policy establishment is inseparable from worry about economic development and modernization. It was the pressing economic catastrophes of the era that directly shaped UNESCO’s turn toward culture as a prophylactic. But it was the permanent and ongoing crisis of integration of pre-capitalist enclaves into capitalist modernity that was the deeper source of the transformations that UNESCO sought to manage through its cultural programming.
The event will be held on Friday April 20th at 2:30 pm in Dunton Tower 2017. Light refreshments will follow the presentation. Please RSVP to sarah.quirt@carleton.ca
April 21, 2018
cuLearn Drop-ins This Month
Stop by the EDC this month and work on your cuLearn course with an educational technology consultant nearby who can answer questions and help with course preparation. Drop in on Wednesday, April 25, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. No registration is required. Stay for the whole session or drop by for some quick help.
April 25, 2018
Digital History Open House – Portes ouvertes de l’histoire numérique
On April 25th, 2018 – the 4th Annual Digital History Open House will feature students from the department of history and the Faculty of Arts showcasing their work from 2017 and 2018. You will have an opportunity to engage with students one on one. The keynote speaker this year is University of Ottawa alumni and Brock University Professor of History, Dr. John Bonnett. His talk, entitled, “Are We Heading for a New Reanaissance?: Thoughts on Talking Trees, Animal Turns, Digital Platforms and the Current State of History” will take place over the lunch time and there will be a light lunch and refreshments.
11:00am-1:00pm
Room 12102 Desmarais, 55 Laurier Avenue East
See attached poster for full details.
April 25, 2018
Feminist Trivia Night
The Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa invites you to Feminist Trivia Night.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 7:00pm
Arrow & Loon Pub, 99 Fifth Avenue
Prizes for the top 2 teams. Bilingual Event. Accessible Venue
April 26, 2018
Lost Stories Film Festival
We hope you can join us at the debut Ottawa screenings of four new short documentary films from the Lost Stories project. Lost Stories explores places, moments, and events from the Canadian past that have deep meanings to those who experienced them but which remain somewhat unknown more broadly. The films not only re-tell these stories, but they also document the journeys of artists entrusted to commemorate these histories into pieces of public art. Each lost story, each piece of commemorative art, and each documentary film come from the same broader project but each is as unique and special as the communities to whom they belong. Of local interest, one of the lost stories to be screened on April 26 involves the special relationships between the former Southway Inn and travelling Inuit peoples coming to Ottawa for medical care, education, professional meetings, and leisure.
The screenings will be held on Thursday, April 26 from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Canadian Museum of History, in its Resource Room. In addition to the screening of the documentaries, there will be a question and answer period afterwards hosted by the Lost Stories Project Director, Dr. Ronald Rudin of Concordia University.
No reservations or tickets are necessary. The event is Free and open to all. The Resource Room is located near the museum’s cafeteria in the ground floor. If unsure, please ask at the welcome desk of the museum and they will direct you. There is normally ample parking available on site (for a flat evening rate of $6), but there are also nearby streets and lots. The Museum is also accessible by public transit. It is also, of course, one of the great walks in the area for those coming to the museum from the Byward Market area of Ottawa.
Please direct any questions about this event to the Carleton Centre for Public History, attention John Walsh at pubhist@gmail.com.
April 26, 2018
2018 Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture in Women’s Studies
The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies of the University of Ottawa is pleased to invite you to the 2018 Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture in Women’s Studies entitled “Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow” by Audra Simpson, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.
Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 5:30 pm
Alex Trebek Alumni Hall, room 116 (157 Séraphin-Marion), University of Ottawa
Light refreshments will be served
FREE ADMISSION
The talk will be in English, followed by a question period.
INFO: 613-562-5791; fem@uOttawa.ca
Announcements
REQUEST FOR SUGGESTIONS: SHANNON LECTURES IN HISTORY
Bruce Elliott would be pleased to receive proposals from faculty or senior doctoral students for the autumn 2018 Shannon Lectures in History, the department’s annual public lecture series. Though the series deals with the social history of Canada, broadly defined, the terms of reference encourage linkages between approaches to Canadian history and the wider body of international scholarship on a theme, so we also encourage non-Canadianists to propose series. At least two of the sessions should be about Canada. The series is funded through a major gift from the late Lois M. Long, a long-time friend of the Department of History. The fund allows for speakers to be brought from throughout North America and overseas. Some colleagues have chosen to organize the series in connection with a seminar course, so that the students can meet with and hear the people they are reading. Dominique and Ann have arranged for a slot to be reserved on Fridays next fall so that it would be possible for anyone contemplating this to overlap a seminar with the time of the lecture. Anyone offering to organize the series will receive plenty of help and guidance along the way. If you have any thoughts as to a topic, please contact Bruce.
Call for Papers, 2018 North American Labor History Conference
Please consider participating in the 40th annual North American Labor History Conference, to be held at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), October 18-20. The Call for Papers is attached. Proposals were due April 15th but have been extended to April 30th.
Now Accepting Library Reserve Requests
We are now accepting library reserve requests for the upcoming academic terms. Send us your course outline or reading list to library_reserves@carleton.ca and the readings will be entered into Ares, our course reserve management system. The reserves staff will retrieve, scan, and process all readings and will also ensure all e-reserve materials comply with current copyright guidelines. Students will be able to access their electronic readings through cuLearn.
Questions? Please visit the Library Reserves website for more information, or, contact the library reserves staff at 613.520.2600 ext. 2533 or Library_Reserves@carleton.ca