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
September 10, 2018 – Minding The Brain
Have you ever considered why a painting or song can make you cry? Perhaps you have wondered about the effects of pervasive social media culture, lasting stress, or the casual use of marijuana? Are you curious why we are so obsessed with the lives of the rich and famous? If you asked yourself any of these questions or spent any time at all deliberating the many secrets of the human mind, this Throwback 2018 event is for you!
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science invites you to a live recording of the popular podcast Minding the Brain hosted by world-renowned experts and Carleton professors Kim Hellemans (Department of Neuroscience) and Jim Davies (Institute of Cognitive Science).
Minding the Brain is a show about the part of you that’s reading this right now: your brain! The standard format for the show has Hellemans and Davies interviewing each other and other specialists about a different mind-related topic every month. For example, in 2018, episodes covered issues such as concussions, drugs, and how we imagine our futures.
For this special live recording episode of the podcast titled “20 Questions with Kim and Jim”, the award-winning Hellemans and Davies will answer your questions, any and all, about the brain.
You are encouraged to submit your questions in advance of the event by tweeting to @MindingtheBrain or through registering online.
Join the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science for a fun and fascinating evening on Monday, September 10, 2018, from 6-8 pm in Dunton Tower, room 2017.
Everyone from the Carleton community and beyond is invited, and admission is free of charge.
September 12, 2018 – cuLearn: The Basics
Did you know you can use cuLearn to post lecture slides, create discussion groups, upload readings or videos, accept online assignment submissions, create self-marking quizzes, send announcements to students, and post grades? And these are just some of the possibilities. So, what’s the best way to get started? Come to the Educational Development Centre’s introductory sessions in September and discover how you can make the most of cuLearn.
Part 1: The Basics
Wednesday, Sept. 12, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Join us and learn how to navigate cuLearn. We’ll show you how to add course resources, such as a course outline and external URL links, and learning activities, such as discussion forums. We’ll also show you how to add a TA or co-teacher, make your course visible to students, set up your gradebook, and more.
Learn more and register at https://carleton.ca/edc/events/
September 14, 2018 – Jill Campbell-Miller: “Colombo Plan Fellowships and the Changing Landscape of Health Education in Canada, 1950-1968”
The History Department invites you to a talk by Dr. Jill Campbell-Miller, visiting SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, as part of our Brown Bag Friday Occasion Series. Bring your lunch and join us in the History Department Lounge, 433 Paterson, at 12:30pm.
September 19, 2018 – cuLearn: Tools and Techniques
Did you know you can use cuLearn to post lecture slides, create discussion groups, upload readings or videos, accept online assignment submissions, create self-marking quizzes, send announcements to students, and post grades? And these are just some of the possibilities. So, what’s the best way to get started? Come to the Educational Development Centre’s introductory sessions in September and discover how you can make the most of cuLearn.
Part 2: Tools and Techniques
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.Move beyond basic cuLearn navigation to explore and use more of what the tool has to offer. Let us show you how to use cuLearn to schedule meetings with your students, take attendance, solicit anonymous feedback, and set up groups within your class. We’ll also explore the cuLearn activity logs to help you monitor and check in on your students’ course activities, so you can see how they are interacting with the materials.
Learn more and register at https://carleton.ca/edc/events/
September 21, 2018 – Sylvain Cornac: “History of the Mediterranean explored through the case of a trans-imperial actor: Abd al-Qâdir al-Jazairi (1807-1883)”
The History Department invites you to a talk by Dr. Sylvain Cornac, Contract Instructor, as part of our Brown Bag Friday Occasion Series. Bring your lunch and join us in the History Department Lounge, 433 Paterson, at 12:30pm.
Announcements
Join an exciting research project!
The Canadian South East Asia Refugee Historical Project: Hearts of Freedom
Carleton University, in partnership with the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian immigrant communities in Canada, the Menno Simons College (a college of Canadian Mennonite University), the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, and the Canadian Immigration Historical Society and with the support of a range institutions involved in immigration history is starting a major 3-year research project entitled The Canadian South East Asia Refugee Historical Project: Hearts of Freedom. Through a series of in-depth oral interviews with Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian refugees who escaped their homelands and came to Canada following the end of the Indochinese wars, as well as Canadians who welcomed them in Canada, the project will seek to preserve the memories of these events and produce educational materials as well as publications and audio-visual materials about them.
We are now hiring for the positions included in the attached word document. Applicants should submit a covering letter and CV by September 15, 2018 addressed to The Research Team at heartsoffreedom@yahoo.com
Did You Know? The Bookstore Offers Textbook Rentals!
Students can now rent textbooks from the Carleton Bookstore, saving them up to 65 per cent off the cost of buying a new book. Students can still write, highlight and add notes in a rented book, just like a purchased copy. They get the textbook for the entire semester, and can choose to convert it to a purchase if they decide they want to keep it. If you wish to learn more about any of our textbook options, please contact Lekan Oyelola, our Textbook manager, at ext. 8115 or at textbooks@carleton.ca. Click here for textbook rental details.
News from the Office of Research Ethics
Successful completion of the TCPS-2 Course on Research Ethics (CORE) is now required of all researchers seeking ethical clearance from CUREB A/B. For those who have not yet completed the tutorial, you can get started here: http://tcps2core.ca/welcome.
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