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
January 15, 2018
Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture | “Human Rights in the Neoliberal Maelstrom”
January 15, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Richcraft Hall
With special guest, Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale Law School and Department of History)
This lecture takes a position in a current debate about how to conceptualize the relationship between human rights and neoliberal globalization. The timing of the two phenomena — one in ethics and one in economics — has coincided, both rising since a 1970s breakthrough. But debate rages about whether to see human rights as the best tools to oppose their neoliberal Doppelgänger or to regard the new law and movements around rights — including economic and social rights — as part of the problem. This talk rejects both extreme positions in order to seek a different alternative. Of course human rights are a product of their time, but this hardly means they are easy to dismiss. However, as a set of ethical propositions and a set of practices, human rights are not what we need to confront economic injustice.
*Limited seating* – please RSVP by emailing Brad Cousineau
Light refreshments will be served.
January 18, 2018
The European Union and Russia: Where Now?
The Jean Monnet Chair in EU Relations with Russia and the Eastern Neighborhood (EUREAST), Carleton University, cordially invites you to the workshop “The European Union and Russia: Where Now?”.
During this half-day event, European, Russian, and Canadian experts will discuss the current state and future directions for relations between the European Union and Russia in the face of the ongoing Ukraine crisis and sanctions regimes.
The event will also highlight the launch of a newly published book, edited by Tom Casier and Joan DeBardeleben, EU-Russia Relations in Crisis: Understanding Diverging Perceptions (Routledge, 2018).
For updated information, please visit carleton.ca/eureast
When: Thursday, January 18, 2018
Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: 608 Robertson Hall, Carleton University
Event contact: Idris Colakovic, idris.colakovic@carleton.ca
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 any of the following talks:
- January 26: Kerry Abel: “Finding Mrs. Simcoe: The Historian’s Craft Revisited”
- February 9: Mary Margaret Johnston-Miller and James Miller: “How Extraordinary! Preserving the Psychiatric Art of Scotland.”
- March 23: Chinnaiah Jangam: Report on sabbatical research
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.
Announcements
Acadiensis: The David Alexander Prize, 2018
The David Alexander Prize, 2018
The David Alexander Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on the history of Atlantic Canada written in course by an undergraduate student in any university.
Submissions: Entries shall be submitted by course instructors no later than 30 June 2018.
https://acadiensis.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/the-david-alexander-prize-2018/
Call for Papers: Premier Undergraduate Conference is Now Accepting Essay Submissions
The Quebec Universities English Undergraduate Conference is now accepting essays for its 9th year. QUEUC is the largest undergraduate conference in Canada, with delegates from all provinces as well as international students.
Bishop’s University will be hosting the conference in Sherbrooke, QC on March 16-17, 2018.
The deadline for essay submissions is January 12th, 2018.
We encourage students from all programs within the Humanities to submit an essay. Successful submissions will be high quality undergraduate research papers that are between 7 and 8 pages in length.
Along with two days of panel discussions, QUEUC 2018 will include an array of social and networking events, including a wine and cheese social and English-themed Cranium game night.
QUEUC began in 2009, and since then has become Canada’s largest undergraduate student conference. QUEUC’s mission is to provide undergraduate students the unique opportunity to share and discuss their research in a welcoming and engaging environment. This conference offers students the change to meet and talk with like-minded undergraduates from across the globe. We hope you will join us to participate in this exciting tradition!
Please send any questions or comments to our email at queuc@ubishops.ca. For more information on registration and submissions, visit our website: www.queuc.com