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
TODAY: February 21, 2018
Faculty cuLearn Drop-In
This drop-in session for faculty provides an opportunity to work on your cuLearn course with an educational technology consultant nearby who can answer questions and help with course preparation. Registration not required. Stay for the whole session or drop by for some quick help.
Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: 422 Dunton Tower
If this time does not work with your schedule, or if you would like to learn a cuLearn introductory session, you can also book an appointment for one-on-one consultations about any aspect of cuLearn, including the gradebook. Don’t forget to check out our support site for answers to frequently asked questions and other resources to help you along.
February 22, 2018
Artist Talk with Gohar Dashti
7:30 p.m.
Barney Danson Theatre
In English, with simultaneous translation in French
Tickets: $10; $7 for students, seniors and Members
Join us for a moderated discussion with Dr. Joanne Stober, a historian at the Canadian War Museum, and Gohar Dashti, one of the photographers featured in the exhibition She Who Tells a Story. The discussion will focus on the artistic practice of photography to represent tradition and changing perceptions of Middle Eastern identity. It will be an in-depth discussion exploring the challenges that exist for photographic artists from the Middle East today — including the display of their work in the “Western world”; the tension between the desire to show contemporary perspectives and the pressure that may exist to represent their home culture; as well as the way politics play into the creative work of artists in the Middle East.
Presenter: Gohar Dashti received her M.A. in Photography from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran in 2005. She continues to live and work in Tehran, and has developed a practice that examines social issues and explores history and culture in modern Middle Eastern society.
Moderator: Dr. Joanne Stober is Historian of War and Visual Culture at the Canadian War Museum. She is a photography and film historian and is an Adjunct professor at Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture. Her doctorate is in Communications and Media Studies from Concordia University in Montréal. Dr. Stober curated She Who Tells A Story for the War Museum.
Seating is limited. Tickets may be purchased at Ticketing, by calling 819-776-7000 or from our website at warmuseum.ca.
February 26, 2018
Liberal International Institutionalism on the Decline? Rethinking African Treaty Withdrawals
The Faculty of Public Affairs presents the 2018 FPA Research Excellence Award Symposium: Liberal International Institutionalism on the Decline? Rethinking African Treaty Withdrawals with Speaker Kamari Clarke.
February 26, 2018 at 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
2nd floor conference rooms Richcraft Hall
Space is limited and advance registration is required.
February 27, 2018
Male Gaze or Lesbian Gaze? The Photos and Writing of Kiyooka Sumiko
February 27th 2-4pm
History Department
4th Floor Paterson Hall
Between 1968 and 1973, Kiyooka published no fewer than eight books that variously contained photography, non-fiction, prose fiction, and poetry depicting lesbian lives, books that formed part of a “lesbian boom” in the Japanese media. Kiyooka’s non-fiction and early lesbian photography in particular document and offer a practical guide to contemporary lesbian life in Japan and beyond, including Korea, Vietnam, and Okinawa. She also draws on lesbian history focused on ancient Greece, Japan, and elsewhere to make utopian claims about the future for lesbians in Japan and globally. Yet, perhaps owing to her work’s androcentric appeal and sometimes salacious tone, Kiyooka has been absent from lesbian histories by members of the community.
Dr. James Welker of Kanagawa University will contextualize Kiyooka’s contribution to non-fiction and photography and shed light on why she has not been claimed as a pioneering lesbian
photographer, writer, and activist in Japan.
February 27, 2018
Mike Starr of Oshawa book launch
The University of Ottawa Press and the Canadian Museum of History cordially invite you to a book launch: Mike Starr of Oshawa: A political biography.
Guest speakers:
Lara Mainville, Director, University of Ottawa Press
John Willis, Editor, Mercury Series from the Canadian Museum of History
Myron Momryk, author, Mike Starr of Oshawa: A political biography
When: Tuesday, February 27, at 7 pm
Where: St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church Hall, 952 Green Valley Crescent, Ottawa
Please RSVP to: history@historymuseum.ca or at 819 776-8382 by February 26.
Our guests speaks at 7:30 pm
A wine of honor, appetizers and a book signing sessions are planned for this event.
February 27, 2018
EURUS Research Seminar
You are invited to attend an EURUS research seminar, “Communist Gender Policies towards Muslim Minorities in Eastern Europe: From Unveiling to Expulsion” with Dr. Ivan Simic on Tuesday, February 27, 2018, from 1:00PM-2:30PM, in the Alumni Boardroom, 617 Robertson Hall, Carleton University (campus map here).
About the Event: Impassioned debates about the garments of Muslim women, followed by state interventions into the gender relations, clothing, and identities of Muslim communities, are neither novel nor specific to our time. Initially attempted in the Soviet Union, Turkey and Iran, interventions reached new levels in Communist Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. This research seminar will discuss three different but connected cases: Soviet interventions in Central Asia; Yugoslav policies towards Muslim communities in the 1940s and 50s; and Bulgarian interventions into the lives of Muslim communities after the Second World War.
About the Speaker: Ivan Simić is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS). The focus of Ivan’s work is Eastern European gender history, particularly aiming to position Yugoslav history in a transnational perspective. His first book on Soviet influences on Yugoslav postwar gender policies will be published with Palgrave in 2018.
The event is free and open to the public. No registration is required to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.
For more information about this and on upcoming EURUS events, please visit our events webpage and find a poster attached to this email. Furthermore, feel free to share this event announcement with interested colleagues.
March 6, 2018
Workshop: Populist Humanitarianism: Responding to Famine in Africa, 1984-86
When: Tuesday March 6, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Where: Carleton University, Paterson Hall, Room 433
By: Dr. Kevin O’Sullivan
Lecturer in History,
National University of Ireland, Galway
Visiting Fellow, Carleton University
Band Aid, Live Aid, Tears Are Not Enough. The humanitarian crisis that impacted the lives of millions across Africa in the mid-1980s prompted unprecedented levels of fund-raising in the West. But where did this outpouring of popular compassion originate? What form did it take? With what consequences for our understanding of Africa and humanitarian aid? To answer those questions, this talk examines the popular response to the crisis in Ethiopia in three countries – Britain, Canada and Ireland – and the social, cultural and political contexts in which it was shaped.
Dr O’Sullivan is currently developing a project on The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Humanitarianism, 1968-85. It examines the social, cultural and political phenomena that shaped the rapid expansion of the global NGO community, drawing on case studies from Britain, Canada and Ireland, as well as archives of governments and international organisations (EU, OECD and World Bank). His research and teaching interests are in international history, especially the areas of empire, globalisation, development and NGOs. He is interested in how ideas of the ‘West’ changed in an era of decolonisation, and how those themes were experienced from its peripheries – in Ireland, Canada, Britain and Northern Europe.
For more information, or to join by Skype, email dominique_marshall@carleton.ca
March 8, 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 lecture will be held on Thursday March 8th at 2:30 pm in Dunton Tower 2017 with a reception to follow. Please RSVP to sarah.quirt@carleton.ca by Wednesday February 21, 2018
March 8, 2018
Vickers-Verduyn Lecture Annual Lecture
6:00-8:00pm
Robertson Hall, 608 (Senate Room)
The School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies presents: The Vickers-Verduyn Annual Lecture in Canadian Studies, Dylan Robinson — Hungry Listening, Ethnographic Redress
Dr. Dylan Robinson, is a Stó:lō artist and scholar, and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. His current research focuses on Indigenous art in public spaces across North America, and his publications include the collections Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016) and Opera Indigene (Routledge, 2011).
Hungry Listening, Ethnographic Redress.
Abstract: In 1929, folklorist Marius Barbeau writes about the significant collection of Indigenous songs represented in the Canadian Museum of History: “about three thousand of these are filed away at the museum.” Though efforts have been made by many museums in Canada to respond to Indigenous calls for the return and repatriation of Indigenous belongings, similar initiatives have yet to occur for songs that remain incarcerated in museum archives. This talk proposes Indigenous-defined methods of ethnographic redress that challenge settler colonial forms of “hungry listening”.
For more information contact eva.mackey@carleton.ca
March 9, 2018
Works-in-Progress workshop with Audra Diptee
Our next Works-in-Progress workshop will take place on Friday March 9th. The featured presenter is Carleton’s history professor, Audra Diptee. The discussant will be Candace Sobers, from BGInS. The workshop topic will be: The Problem of Modern Day Slavery: Is Critical Applied History the Answer?. Same time – 12:00 – 2:00pm. We hope you will join us. Lunch is provided by us!
The series is a monthly workshop featuring discussions about faculty papers whose scope spans issues of global and international relevance. Papers are pre-circulated to workshop registrants. The goal of the works-in-progress series is to provide a forum for in-depth engagement and exchange on cutting-edge issues of global significance. We strive to have a lively, challenging and thought-provoking seminar and invite you to join us in providing an informative forum of discussion for a multidisciplinary audience, sharing at least one common interest, namely globalization and/or internationalism – whatever that means to you.
If you would like to register for the March 9th workshop or for any of the upcoming workshops in this series, or if you have general questions, please contact Jenelle.Williams@carleton.ca.
March 9, 2018
Disability and the Welfare State in Britain
Carleton University Disability Research Group presents:
Dr. Jameel Hampton
Disability and the Welfare State in Britain
When: Friday, March 9 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm
Where: Paterson Hall, Room 433
The much-celebrated British welfare state of the 1940s to the later 1970s originally excluded disabled civilians. With the “rediscovery of poverty” in the 1960s, promised new and
sweeping policies for the full inclusion of disabled people in the welfare state and society. This talk will address the first major analysis of the Disablement Income Group, one of the most
powerful British NGOs in the 1960s, as well as the original analysis of the 1972-3 Thalidomide crisis in Britain, and the changing ideas about the appropriate place of disabled people
within the mixed economy of welfare—central and local government, formal voluntary organisations, and informal care via the efforts of families, friends, and communities.
Dr. Hampton is the author of Disability and the Welfare State in Britain: Changes in Perception and Policy, 1948-79. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has lectured at the University of Regina and Liverpool Hope University.
For more information, for accommodation or to join by Skype, email dominique_marshall@carleton.ca
March 9, 2018
European Union Trade Policy in the 21st Century
On behalf of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Carleton University and the CN-Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy at the University of Ottawa, I am delighted to invite you to attend an international research conference titled “European Union Trade Policy in the 21st Century,” on Friday, March 9, 2018, from 8:00AM—4:00PM. The event will be held at Carleton University in the second floor conference rooms (rms. 2220-2228) in Richcraft Hall (formerly the River Building) (please find a campus map here).
This full-day conference will bring together scholars from Europe and North America, mainly from the fields of political science and economics, to assess and discuss recent developments in the EU’s trade policy as well as challenges for the future. The conference will be divided into 3 main sessions: the EU’s trade strategy and process; the EU’s trade relations with important partners; and the politicization of trade policy in the EU. Please find a copy of the draft agenda at the event webpage.
This event is sponsored by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and the CN-Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy at the University of Ottawa, and is funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union, by the Faculty of Public Affairs as part of its Research Month, and by Carleton University.
Registration for this conference is required. To register, please visit the event webpage here.
March 13-16, 2018
Invitation: International Workshop on Sexual Violence in Wars
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Central and Eastern European Studies Research Group and the Studies in Migration Research Group at the University of Ottawa are pleased to invite you to the international workshop “21st Century Reflections on Sexual Violence in Wars, its Transgenerational and Transnational Impact” that will take place between March 13-16, 2018 at the University of Ottawa.
Situating the phenomenon of sexual violence in wars within a broader context of violence against women, this special event explores the lasting and insufficiently explored effects of the violence on the survivors, their communities and the children born of such violent acts.
This three-day event features the internationally acclaimed Ottawa premiere of the play from South Africa, Cheers to Sarajevo, a theatre workshop on achieving truth through embodied art research, the screening of two international movies, and speakers and researchers discussing the profound impact of sexual violence in different geographic and historical contexts and across generations, with a focus on post-WWII Germany and post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The organizers and participants wish to raise awareness of the magnitude of the problem, the omnipresent phenomenon of sexual violence, particularly against women, while also addressing and honouring the survivors’ and the children’s resilience in narrating and moving beyond their stories, so as to open up a space for post-conflict healing.
Full program available on the website: https://childrenoftheenemy.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/march-2018-workshop-on-sexual-violence-in-wars-program2.pdf.
For more information contact: agathas@uottawa.ca
March 15, 2018
Book Launch: Human Rights in Africa
Time: 1:30 PM
Where: Discovery Centre, Room 482 MacOdrum Library
About the Author. Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh teaches Human Rights History and African History in the Department of History and the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University. He also teaches in the McMaster Arts & Science Program and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. He has taught in universities in Africa, Europe and North America. Previously, he was professor at Brock University, Canada; professor in the Department of Political Science at University of North Carolina at Asheville; Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York; Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has also taught at Ambrose Alli University and the University of Lagos.
His research interests are global human rights, peace/conflict studies, legal and imperial history. His articles on these themes have appeared in historical and interdisciplinary journals – Human Rights Quarterly, The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Journal of Global History, and Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (Journal of the American Psychological Association).
For additional information: https://carleton.ca/africanstudies/
March 15-17, 2018
Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium
The Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium is one of the longest running history graduate conferences in Canada. In March 2018, the Department of History, Carleton University, will be hosting the 24th Annual Colloquium. This year’s theme, “Storying Our Pasts: Historical Narrative and Representations” highlights historical output and means of storytelling. We hope to draw on different methodologies in a self-reflexive dialogue about how historians present and share their research.
See attached document for more details about the colloquium.
2017–2018
History Department Brown Bag Occasions
The History Department invites you to a series of Brown Bag Occasions taking place in our History Lounge (433 Paterson), starting at 12:30. Bring your lunch and join us for the last talk this academic year:
April 3, 2018
Carleton Public History Networking Night
7:00pm at the Happy Goat Coffee Company, 35 Rue Laurel St., Ottawa, K1Y 4M4
We are very pleased to invite you to our annual Public History Partnership Network (PHPN) Reception. PHPN connects Ottawa-area professionals, graduate students, and university faculty with an interest in public history. Besides nurturing a wide range of public history work both on- and off-campus, PHPN members include institutional partners who employ Carleton’s history undergraduate and graduate students in practicum and internship courses. The annual reception celebrates these relationships, provides a brief update on the goings-on with the M.A. in Public History Program and the Carleton Centre for Public History, and highlights recent student work in public history. Most of all, the reception is an opportunity for conversation with both old and new friends. With the generous support of Carleton’s Department of History and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, we are pleased to be able to offer a range of refreshments and appetizers.
This year we’ll be holding our event off campus at Happy Goat Coffee Company in Little Italy. As well as informal socializing, this year we are setting up speed-networking stations to facilitate more focused networking opportunities. We will be staging two fifty-minute sessions during the evening with fifteen networking tables. Each table will hold five ten-minute networking conversations in each session. Once you are registered we will set out a timetable and you can sign up through Doodle.
We hope you can join us on April 3rd! Please RSVP by March 12th by reserving your tickets here. If you wish to bring a guest please reserve two (2) tickets. Limit one (1) guest per invitee. If you wish us to extend this invitation to colleagues who might also be interested in joining the PHPN, please contact David Dean (david_dean@carleton.ca) and Kira Smith (Kira.Smith@cmail.carleton.ca) so we can make these arrangements.
April 5, 2018
Annual Screening of HIST 4302 Documentaries
The students of HIST 4302 – “Canada: Ideas & Culture – Making Documentary History”, will be presenting their final documentaries on April 5th, 2018. It will take place at 7:00pm (tentative screenings start time is 7:30p.m.) in room 100 of St. Patrick’s.
After the screening there will be a reception with refreshments, sponsored by the History Department.
April 6, 2018
Underhill Undergraduate Colloquium 2018
Join the History Department as we host our annual Underhill Undergraduate Colloquium to showcase undergraduate student excellence.
The event will feature history projects in various mediums, presentations, student excellence awards, and a reception for faculty and students.
April 6, 2018
1:30-3:00pm
History Lounge
433 Paterson Hall
RSVP: https://cu-history-undergrad-underhill2018.eventbrite.ca
April 6, 2018
Works-in-Progress workshop with Karim Karim
Our next Works-in-Progress workshop will take place on Friday April 6th. The featured presenter is Carleton’s journalism and communications professor, Karim Karim. The discussant will be Natasha Bakht, from the University of Ottawa. The workshop topic will be: A Legacy of Ignorance: Western and Muslim Failures to Understand the Other. 1:00 – 3:00pm. We hope you will join us. Lunch is provided by us!
The series is a monthly workshop featuring discussions about faculty papers whose scope spans issues of global and international relevance. Papers are pre-circulated to workshop registrants. The goal of the works-in-progress series is to provide a forum for in-depth engagement and exchange on cutting-edge issues of global significance. We strive to have a lively, challenging and thought-provoking seminar and invite you to join us in providing an informative forum of discussion for a multidisciplinary audience, sharing at least one common interest, namely globalization and/or internationalism – whatever that means to you.
If you would like to register for the April 6th workshop or for any of the upcoming workshops in this series, or if you have general questions, please contact Jenelle.Williams@carleton.ca.
Announcements
DEP – Special Grant Opportunity
As the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces implement Canada’s new defence policy – Strong, Secure, Engaged – the Defence Engagement Program will conduct a trial over the next year to help assess ways to channel the expert community’s knowledge into the Department through collaborative networks.
To this end, we are looking for individuals or organizations that are engaged, dynamic, resourceful and interested in working in close collaboration with our team to help determine the best model for the network.
The construct should be able to bring together multidisciplinary teams from different parts of the country – and abroad – to work on challenges identified by the Department.
This opportunity is open to multidisciplinary teams with interest in the domain of security and defence studies. Applicants must submit a detailed proposal outlining their network concept. The application format is left to the discretion of the candidates.
The trial network must focus its efforts in supporting a departmental policy priority as identified at: http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/training-paid-education/priorities.page
The selected proposal will receive a total of $100,000 in funding, divided in two separate grants of $50,000 over a year.
The deadline for proposals is 6 April 2018. Initial funding will be dispensed in May 2018 and the second tranche will be provided later in 2018.
For more detailed information, including instructions on how to apply, objectives/deliverables, and evaluation criteria, please consult the DEP website at the following link:
English: http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/training-paid-education/DEP-SProject.page
Please email the DEP at DEP-PCD@forces.gc.ca should you have any questions or concerns.