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
August 23, 2018 – Fall 2018 Contract Instructor Orientation
If you’re getting ready to teach your first course at Carleton, or if you’re returning after a break, you may have questions about policies and procedures, teaching tips and educational technology. Join Teaching and Learning Services on Thursday, Aug. 23 from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. for our Fall 2018 Contract Instructor Orientation to get the answers to your questions.In addition to covering a variety of teaching and learning topics, the orientation also features a special presentation from your union representative and an interactive panel discussion on dealing with difficult situations in the classroom.
Find out more and register at: https://carleton.ca/edc/cu-events/contract-instructor-orientation-fall-2018/
August 25, 2018 – Hands-On Workshops with Teaching and Learning Services
Teaching and Learning Services will also be offering an additional half-day of workshops on Saturday, Aug. 25 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. specifically designed to help you get ready for a new term. Hands-on workshops include setting up your course in cuLearn, a syllabus course checkup and getting ready for your first day.
Find out more and register at: https://carleton.ca/edc/cu-events/contract-instructor-orientation-fall-2018/
Announcements
Fellowship Opportunity – sent by retired colleague Dr. Duncan McDowall
The Geraldine Grace and Maurice Alvin McWatters Visiting Fellowship is designed to foster, promote, and support original archival research by scholars, authors, or artists in the collections located at Queen’s University Archives. This Visiting Fellowship has a stipend of $5,000 which is intended to help defray living, travel or research expenses of successful applicants to come to Kingston, Ontario, Canada to conduct their research.
Please see the attached flyer for more details.
2019 Governor General’s Innovation Awards nominations
The Federation has been invited to nominate outstanding candidates from our community for the 2019 Governor General’s Innovation Awards, and we welcome recommendations from you, our members. Since 2016, we have had the privilege of being a nominating partner for these awards, and we were thrilled to see one of our nominees selected as a winner in 2017. I encourage you to read more about Marie-Odile Junker’s fascinating innovation story.
When considering whom we might nominate as an innovator, it’s important to note that there are some differences between innovation and research excellence. For these awards, innovation is understood as addressing a pressing problem with a solution that’s based on new thinking, and putting that solution into action. To recommend an individual candidate or a team, please send a short description (1,200 words maximum) to pseverinson@ideas.ca by September 14, 2018. In your description, please let us know how they meet the following award criteria:
- Extent to which the individual, team or organization has shown initiative and leadership to be agents of change in addressing a current issue about which they are passionate.
- Creative use of new knowledge and/or technology to develop ideas aimed at addressing contemporary social, economic or cultural challenges and solving real-world problems.
- Evidence of the successful implementation of these ideas, resulting in a positive impact beyond the nominee’s own community or organization.
- The degree to which the nominee and the activities undertaken have demonstrated inspiration, creativity, collaboration, risk-taking and problem-solving.
Federation staff will review the suggestions and select a shortlist of candidates. A committee made up of Federation Board members will select a maximum of four final nominees who will be invited to complete official submissions. Diversity will be an important consideration when we make our selections, and we encourage you to recommend candidates from underrepresented groups, including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, and people with disabilities.
Library Now Accepting Reserve Requests for 2018/2019 Academic Year
The library is now accepting reserve requests for the upcoming academic year. 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 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.
It’s Textbook Submission Time!
Are you teaching a course next semester? Now is the time to submit your adoption request to the Bookstore! Even if your course doesn’t require a textbook, or if it’s being offered through some other means, telling the Bookstore is helpful. Visit www.carleton.ca/textbooks to submit your adoption request today!
Potential Free Elective – ARCS 1005X “Drawing for Non-Architecture Students”
Winter Term – Friday, 0835-1125 – CRN 15368
Course Instructor: Adrianna Ross
Drawing is more than representing what we see–it is a way of understanding the things, spaces and relationships that compose our world. The course will cover fundamental concepts that include line and line weight, light and shadow, perspective, contrast and composition, drawing animals and storytelling through drawing. Exercises will include some mixed media, and will introduce students to drawing as a way of translating ideas into images.
Potential Free Elective – ARCH 4004A “Architectural Theory: Houses of the Holy”
Winter Term – Wednesday, 1005-1255 – CRN 10171
Course Instructor: Stephen Fai
This course will serve as a vehicle to address two primary (and several ancillary) questions that stand in the shadows of contemporary architectural discourse — either forgotten or ignored. First, what is “architecture”? Can we say it is ‘this’ or ‘that’? Or does it depend? How can we theorize architecture in order to discuss it? Second, what is “the sacred” in the context of architecture? Does it still matter? Does it still exist? Did it ever exist? While our study will necessarily touch upon the politically sensitive territories of theology and religion, we will look to the methodologies of Religionswissenschaft (the Scientific Study of Religion) in order to remain — as much as is possible — objective. Our intention is not —paraphrasing Mies van der Rohe, Aby Warburg, Gustav Flaubert, and others — to “find God in the details.” We will assume — for academic purposes — that it is possible to discuss “sacred” without specific reference to “God”, “a God”, or ‘Gods”.
Potential Free Elective – ARCU 3902A “Cities”
Winter Term – Friday, 1135-1425 – CRN 15371
Course Instructors: Faculty members of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
Cities are home to more than half the world’s population; they are according to many the crowning achievement of civilization. In many ways, it is cities and not nations that are setting new directions in politics, ecology, and culture. This course will present the complex reality of cities through a global itinerary. Weekly lectures will focus on portraits of individual cities, including Istanbul, Barcelona, Mexico City, San Francisco, Mumbai and Johannesburg. Topics will include historical precedent and patterns of development, economic disparity and class struggles, social movements and political conflicts, energy dependence and climate change.