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
***The History Department’s annual book sale is coming next week***
November 22, 2018 – Contemporary Trends Lecture Series -Erin Baines and Pilar Riaño-Alcalá – Traces
We are pleased to announce our next guests in the Contemporary Trends in Global and International Studies Lecture Series. Please join us in welcoming Professors Erin Baines and Pilar Riaño-Alcalá , from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.
4:30-6:30pm, DT 2017
To register and for more info: bgins@carleton.ca
Abstract: We speak of traces as the affective imprints of the missing on the social fabric; the sense/feeling disappearance generates; an imprint that is imperceptible but compels. Traces are haunting, hopeful, and coextensive: imbrications of the absent and present. What does it mean to write of, and with, traces? Pilar reflects on exhumations of the victims of a massacre, of lives mourned and relationships restored through the identification of bones and ceremonial protocols of burial. Erin reflects on the reappearance of persons who went missing during the war in northern Uganda, and the violent fragments that bond them to one another, and to persons they have never before seen or met. In this talk, we take a pause from international investigations, trials, evidence and judgements to consider where traces lead us in the afterlives of war.
November 23, 2018 – Shannon Lecture with Katherine Cook, “There is no ‘net neutrality’ in digital archaeology”
The lecture will take place in room 2017 Dunton Tower (20th floor) starting at 1:00 p.m. followed by a reception at 2:30 p.m.
Lecture abstract: Colonisation, at its core, is the extraction of resources from those without power. What then gets extracted in digital colonialism and what does this have to do with archaeology in Canada? Considering the critiques, questions, and fallout regarding digital corporations, capitalism, and politics over the course of the past year, we are ever more acutely aware of the much darker underbelly of the digital world. Yet we still act as if digital technology is ‘the answer!’ to solving those ‘Great Challenges’ facing archaeology today, namely the lack of equity, inclusivity, access and the unwavering manifestations of (neo)colonialism. This discussion will consider the realities of digitally disrupting archaeology, the opportunities it presents but also the dangers it poses to argue that not all data, not all audiences, and not all archaeologists are treated equal in digital practice. Digital archaeology will not save us from bad archaeology, so we must decolonize the digital first.
November 23, 2018 – Honouring Agnes Calliste: Innovative Critical Race and Intersectional Perspectives in Canadian Sociology
When: November 23, 2018 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Where: 270 Residence Commons
Who: Anyone, but space is limited. RSVP required.
*Continental breakfast and lunch included
The symposium will honour the scholarship of Dr. Agnes Miranda Calliste, 74, who spent her career as a Professor of Sociology at St. Francis Xavier University, and passed on Friday, August 31, 2018.
Dr. Calliste, born in Grenada, was a nationally and internationally celebrated academic. Her scholarship focused on the complex interrelation of migration, work, race, ethnicity and gender in Canada. Her ground-breaking interdisciplinary research with African-Canadian railway porters and Caribbean-Canadian nurses and domestic workers explored under-researched dimensions of our social history.
The symposium, composed of three chaired panels with continental breakfast and lunch included, will be held on November 23rd, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at Residence Commons room 270.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
November 23, 2018 – “Is Africa Misunderstood or just Unknowable?”
1:00 pm – 3:00pm, Room 482 (Discovery Centre) MacOdrum Library
Dr. Alex Awiti, (Interim Vice Provost, East Africa and Director, East African Institute)
Alex O. Awiti is the Founding Director of the East African Institute (EAI) of Aga Khan University. The EAI is a regional platform for policy research, performance and public engagement, which focuses on the consequential drivers of socio-economic, environmental and institutional change. The EAI is currently focusing on youth, urbanization, economic growth, food systems and the extractive resources. Mr. Awiti holds a PhD in Ecosystems Ecology from University of Nairobi and is an alumnus of the prestigious Earth Institute post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University in New York. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York and was also an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He worked under the mentorship of Jeffery D. Sachs, world-renowned professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management.
For additional information: https://carleton.ca/africanstudies/cu-events/is-africa-misunderstood-or-just-unknowable/
November 23, 2018 – Trailblazing with Knowledge: Explore, Network, and Hear from a Panel of Dynamic Muslim Academics & Professionals
6:00pm to 8:30pm (608 Robertson Hall)
Would you like to talk and engage with Muslims who attended or are currently attending graduate school? Would you like to hear their stories and how it all came to be? Then join us this Friday (November 23rd) from 6:00pm to 8:30pm for a panel discussion with knowledgeable graduate students and professionals from different walks of life. You will have the opportunity to meet these individuals, hear their stories, and ask questions during the panel discussion. After the panel, all folks in attendance will have the opportunity to network with the presenters, ask personal questions, and get professional advice.
Both graduate and undergraduate students are welcome. Food and beverages will be served!
November 28-30, 2018 – History Book Sale
Get a head-start on your holiday shopping and come peruse a grand selection of inexpensive books! History, Politics, Literature, and more – New, Used and Rare(ish).
Large selection in the History Lounge (433 Paterson) along with a smaller selection in the University Galleria. We look forward to seeing you there.
10:00am-4:00pm on November 28th, 29th, and 30th.
November 29, 2018 – “Kristallnacht: An After History”
Thursday November 29th, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Discovery Centre 482, MacOdrum Library
Speaker: Dr. Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Professor of History at Vanderbilt University
The November Pogrom of 1938, the Night of Broken Glass, was one of the decisive moments of the history of the Third Reich. For the first time, tens of thousands of ordinary people, if not more, participated in a ritual of violence and degradation directed against their Jewish neighbors. In more than a thousand communities, synagogues were burned down, destroyed, and desecrated. Historians know a great deal about the event. They know less about how this event became part of collective memory in the postwar years. Using method from digital humanities, this talk will address the question of when and how Germans in the Federal Republic thought about and memorialized a central event that had shown Nazi Germany to be a persecuting society.
November 30, 2018 – Shannon Lecture with Morag M. Kersel , “The Pathways of Pots: The movement of Early Bronze Age vessels from the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan”
The lecture will take place in room 2017 Dunton Tower (20th floor) starting at 1:00 p.m. followed by a reception at 2:30 p.m.
Lecture abstract: What is the pathway of a pot? How do Early Bronze Age (3600–2000 BCE) pots from Jordan end up in Canadian institutions – and why does it matter? These particular pots are from sites along the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan, which have been identified as the “Cities of the Plain” mentioned in Genesis. One of the sites, Bab adh-Dhra’ is thought to be, by some, the original city of sin – biblical Sodom. “Who doesn’t want a pot from the city of sin?” declared one interviewee when I asked why they were purchasing (legally) what most would consider a fairly unattractive, non-descript pot. Over 15 years of investigation have led to interesting insights related to why individuals and institutions want to own artifacts from the Holy Land?
Tracing how pots move (both legally and illegally) involves archaeological survey, aerial investigations using unpiloted aerial vehicles, archival research, and ethnographic interviews in order to understand better the competing claims for these archaeological objects and the often deleterious effects of demand on the landscape. In this talk, I will look at how artifacts go from the mound to the market to the mantelpiece or museum vitrine and why this matters.
November 30, 2018 – FASS Film Screening – Michael Curtiz’s Captains of the Clouds – A WWII Hollywood Epic Set and Shot in Ottawa
Please join us on Friday, November 30th at 6:00pm for the FASS Film Screening Event in the Richcraft Hall Theatre. This event will feature Dr. Marc Furstenau of the Film Studies Department.
December 5, 2018 – The Book Launch for A Companion to Public History
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, DT 2017
Join us to celebrate the launch of A Companion to Public History, edited by our very own David Dean. Refreshments and food (vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free friendly) will be provided. Stick around after the short opening remarks to meet and mingle with alumni and current Public History students.
A Companion to Public History is a cutting-edge volume for a developing area of study, offering some essays in teachable forms – an interview, a roundtable discussion, a document analysis, a photo essay – and discusses the continuing challenges presented by history within our broad, collective memory, including museum controversies, repatriation issues, ‘textbook’ wars, and commissions for Truth and Reconciliation.
Please RSVP by November 30: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-companion-to-public-history-tickets-52557569104
December 11, 2018 – Book Launch: Roots of Entanglement
Please join Kerry Abel at a reception at Library and Archives Canada on December 11 to honour historian J.R. Miller, who has made major contributions to the field of Indigenous history in Canada, and recently retired from teaching. At the event, we will launch a collection of essays published as a tribute to him by the University of Toronto Press (edited by Kerry Abel, the late Myra Rutherdale, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer). Refreshments will be served and copies of the book will be available for sale. See the attached poster. The event is free but advance registration is required at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-and-reception-for-jr-miller-tickets-50173272609
January 17-19, 2019 – Conference – Canada 1919: A Country Shaped by War
Thursday, January 17, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Friday, January 18, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday, January 19, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
LeBreton Gallery, Barney Danson Theatre, Ateliers C and D
Full conference: $175; $125 for students, seniors and members.
One-day registration: $100, $75 for students, seniors and students.
Join world-renowned historians to explore different aspects of the First World War and its many legacies: the return of Indigenous veterans, the conflict’s impact on French Canada, the contributions of nurses, the challenges of forging peace from the ashes of war, and much more. Scholars and history buffs won’t want to miss this bilingual academic conference, organized by the Canadian War Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Victory 1918 – The Last 100 Days and in commemoration of the centenary of the end of the conflict.
Speakers include international and Canadian experts like Michael Neiberg, Catriona Pennell, J. L. Granatstein, David Bercuson, Tim Cook, and Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919. For more information, to see the conference schedule or to register, visit www.warmuseum.ca/Canada1919.
Announcements
United Way 50/50 Tickets For Sale
There are still some tickets left for the United Way 50/50 draw this year. Buy your tickets from Tanya in the main office (400 Paterson). Tickets are 3 for $5. Last year’s winner took home $1,320!
Carleton University’s Annual United Way Campaign
Each year, Carleton runs a campaign to raise funds for the United Way.
In 2017, we raised $113,276 for United Way! Thank you to everyone who donated!
Your donation will help kids be all that they can be; move people from poverty to possibility; help people in crisis and create healthy people and strong communities. 100% of your donation stays in Ottawa.
Donations through Payroll Deduction can be set up through Carleton Central (found under the Employee Services tab). A couple of dollars per pay adds up!
Check the website for more details about the campaign and events happening around campus.
Possible Elective Course: EURUS Winter Term Course: EURR 2002 (CUOL)
EURUS is offering a course in winter term taught by professor Joan DeBardeleben on “Europe and Russia in the World”. This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to the position of Europe, the European Union, and the Russian Federation in international affairs. The temporal focus is from the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe to the present time. This course is also offered as a Carleton University Online Course (CUOL)!The class meets Thursdays 2:30-4:30 and Fridays 2:30-3:30. Enrollment is open now.
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