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: October 17, 2018 – Chet Mitchell Lecture: The Wilderness of American Power
The Department of Law and Legal Studies is very pleased to invite you to the upcoming annual Chet Mitchell talk which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 17, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Dunton, room 2017).
The lecture will be delivered by Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein who will be visiting us from Vanderbilt University.
You are all invited to stay after the talk for a light reception.
RSVP is available here:
https://events.carleton.ca/the-wilderness-of-american-power/
TONIGHT: October 17, 2018 – Sir John A. Macdonald’s Social Ghost: Putting his Statues in their Place
A public talk featuring the Honourable Erin O’Toole, P.C., C.D., LL.B., and Dr. Tonya Davidson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
6:30-8:30pm, Azrieli Theatre 301
October 18, 2018 – How Extraordinary! Preserving the Psychiatric Art of Scotland
The Ottawa Historical Association presents a lecture by James Miller of Carleton University and Mary Margaret Johnston-Miller of Library and Archives Canada.
7:30pm at Main Floor Room, Old Town Hall, 61 Main Street, Old Ottawa East
This lecture is free and all are welcome to attend.
October 18, 2018 – Psychology Mental Health Day
The Department of Psychology at Carleton University is hosting Psychology Mental Health Day on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. This Day’s event is a follow up to World Mental Health Day (Oct. 10, 2018) and is intended to continue the conversation on mental health, as it affects all of us. We hope our event will raise awareness, educate on current mental health issues, and promote well-being. Our goal is to connect our community to resources that promote well-being on and off-campus. Join us for an expert panel discussion on mental health today, a variety of workshops (such as personality types and mental health, anxiety disorders, etc.), followed by a keynote address on “Stress and Coping”. This event is free, and all are welcome to attend. Attendees may drop-in to events throughout the day as they are available.
October 19, 2018 – Shannon Lecture with Steph Halmhofer, “#InventedFantasies – Using Social Media to Talk About Pseudoarchaeology”
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: Skeletons of giants in British Columbia. People using psychic abilities to find proof that the empire of Atlantis included Nova Scotia. A cult in Quebec proposing aliens invented life on Earth. These sound like something you would find Dana Scully and Fox Mulder investigating in The X-Files. But I’m not Dana Scully, I’m an archaeologist. So why am I talking about aliens and giants? Because pseudoarchaeology, which includes the topics I’ve mentioned above, is a real concern facing both archaeologists and non-archaeologists. These theories can be found in books, television shows, and on social media but their negative impacts reach far beyond these pages and screens.
With rising popularity in social media and a currently combined total of around 440 million monthly users on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, it’s not difficult to imagine how quickly pseudoarchaeological theories can spread online. But just as we use our knowledge and trowels, social media can also be a powerful tool in the archaeological toolkit, a toolkit I want to share through this lecture. We’ll talk about what pseudoarchaeology is, focusing largely on Canadian examples, and how you can identify it. We’ll talk about the racism of pseudoarchaeology. We’ll also talk about how various media platforms are used to spread pseudoarchaeology. And finally, we’ll talk about how archaeologists and non-archaeologists can use social media to talk about and de-bunk pseudoarchaeology.
October 24, 2018 – United Way Kickoff Soup Lunch
Join us for the launch of this year’s United Way campaign. Buy your tickets from Tanya in 400 Paterson or at the event. Tickets are $5 each with all proceeds going to the United Way. (Includes soup, roll, and a cookie.)
12:00-1:30pm in the University Centre Galleria
October 25, 2018 – Provost’s Pancake Breakfast
Join us for pancakes in support of the United Way. 8:00-9:30am in the University Galleria.
Tickets are by donation to the United Way (minimum $5). Buy your ticket in advance at the Discovery Centre (4th floor MacOdrum Library) or 503 Tory.
If paying at the door, register online at Carleton.ca/provost/news
October 26, 2018 – Hazardous Conditions: Histories of the Urban Horse
Speaker: Joanna Dean
What was it really like to share city streets with animals that weighed half a ton and did not always do as they were told? The number of horses in Canadian cities skyrocketed in the late 1800s, when they pulled buggies, hauled carts and streetcars, and powered treadmills, lifts, and brick machines. In 1891, Ottawa had one horse for every 18 people. In this lecture, I will tell stories from the archives about the mishaps, cruelty and muck of a multispecies city. I will explain what horse manure had to do with the spread of tetanus, or lockjaw, and how an ungainly little horse called Brick Top helped Canadians overcome this dread disease during the First World War.
Joanna Dean was inspired as a child by Dr. Dolittle, and has never entirely given up trying to talk to the animals. She shares her farm in rural Quebec with Wyatt, a draft horse, Paddy, a paint, and a multitude of other animals. She teaches animal history and environmental history at Carleton University, and recently co-edited Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada (2017).
October 26-27, 2018 – Exhibiting Gender: Telling Her Stories
Ontario Women’s History Network Conference, co-sponsored by the History Department.
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Québec
Register at: owhn-rhfo.ca
See attached program for more details.
October 29, 2018 – OGS Workshop for History Department Students
The department invites all senior undergraduate students and current graduate students intending to apply for an Ontario Graduate Scholarship to participate in an information session and workshop on Monday October 29. The workshop will be facilitated by Professor Paul Nelles (Graduate Supervisor) and Professor Andrew Johnston. Students should bring a draft statement of intent (see the OGS guidelines here) to the workshop. The deadline for OGS applications is November 15.
Date: Monday October 29th
Time: 3:30–5:30 pm
Location: History Lounge (433 PA)
October 29, 2018 – Making History – Shinzō ABE: the Domestic and Foreign Policy of Japan’s Longest Serving Prime Minister
The Department of History presents: Making History – Shinzō ABE: the Domestic and Foreign Policy of Japan’s Longest Serving Prime Minister
When: Monday, October 29 at 7:30 pm
Where: Paterson Hall, Room 303
Lecture by: Jacob Kovalio, Associate Professor, Department of History
Lecture no. 1 in the 2018-2019 Japan Lecture Series at Carleton University
Parking Lot #1 (carleton.ca/parking)
October 29, 2018 – War Art or War Memorial? What Exactly is Canada’s War Art?
Lecturer Dr. Laura Brandon, through the Learning in Retirement program (open to all ages)
The Canadian War Museum possesses one of the finest twentieth-century official war art collections in the world. Until relatively recently, however, the collection has received limited public attention. This lecture explores Canada’s official First World War art as art history and war memorial. Better known and recognized as an accessible and meaningful visual record of the conflict, over the past 100 years Canada’s official war art has struggled to retain any substantive position in Canadian art history. Does it matter?
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Cost: $30.00 (HST included) Register online today using our online registration form or call us at 613-520-3699. For a complete listing of all class descriptions, dates, times and lecturer biographies for fall 2018, please visit our website.
Mondays, October 29 to December 3, 2018: We Shall Overcome: The Civil Rights Movement Through Song (6-week lecture series)
Lecturer Dr. Stephen Richer with Janine Smith, through the Learning in Retirement program (open to all ages)
The aim of this lecture series is to examine some key songs and singer/song-writers associated with the Abolition and Civil Rights movements in North America. Among the musicians to be discussed are Paul Robeson, Billie Holiday, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, and Buffy Sainte-Marie. Our focus will be on how the biographies of such key personalities interact with historical context to produce protest songs affiliated with the above social movements.
Days: Mondays, October 29th – December 3rd (6-week lecture series)
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $140.00 (HST included) Register online today using our online registration form or call us at 613-520-3699. For a complete listing of all class descriptions, dates, times and lecturer biographies for fall 2018, please visit our website.
October 30, 2018 – From Settler to Treaty Person: A Personal Journey
Springing the trap of settler guilt by placing myself in a larger narrative, I first went to Scotland to learn how my ancestors had lived with the land they had inhabited since Neolithic times. I returned with a sense of reconnection that helped me better understand the indigenous connection to the land here in Canada. And this gave me the courage to take on my responsibility as a 5th Generation settler colonist in Perth County, Ontario, including the successive betrayals of the 1827 Huron Tract Treaty culminating in the Ipperwash Tragedy of 1995. Struggling with this seems to be helping me find my voice as a treaty person. I hope I can use this voice to advance reconciliation between settler and Indigenous Canadas and an equally necessary reconciliation with the earth.
Tuesday October 30, 2018, 7:30pm
C264 Loeb Building, parking info for lot P1
Free Admission. For more information contact us at: 613-520-2600 ext 4461
October 31, 2018 – African Studies Brown Bag: Annette Isaac, Adjunct Research Professor and former Instructor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton, “Missing the Cues. Tales of a Newcomer’s Life in Canada”
All Brownbag talks take place on a Wednesday, in The Discovery Centre (room 482 MacOdrum Library), 1:00pm – 2:30pm.
November 6, 2018 – Lecture on Terrorism in Russia and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia
You are invited to attend a lecture by Dr. Jean-François Ratelle on “The Terrorist Threat in Russia and the Return of Russian-speaking Foreign Fighters in Eurasia.”
Dr. Jean-François Ratelle teaches conflict studies and human rights at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and is an adjunct professor at EURUS. He recently co-edited a volume entitled Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia. This lecture is brought to you by The Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University.
The lecture will be on Tuesday 6th November 2018 from 13:00 – 14:30 in room 481 MacOdrum Library,Discovery Centre, Carleton University.
Registration is not required to attend and the event is free. Light refreshments will be served prior to the lecture.
November 6, 2018 – The Past Becomes the Future
We are pleased to invite you to the Seminar “The Past Becomes the Future: Strengthening Communities Through Documentary Heritage” which will be held on November 6, 2018, at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, in the Alfred Pellan Room, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
This seminar will be an opportunity for your staff and students to network with documentary heritage organizations from across Canada as well as providing information about the funding opportunities provided to cultural institutions by the Government of Canada.
Speakers will include:
- Recipients of small and large contributions of LAC’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP), who will discuss the development and implementation of their projects, including obstacles they encountered and best practices they would like to share;
- Subject matter advisors, who will discuss what they look for in project applications; and
- Representatives from other Government of Canada organizations, who will present their documentary heritage funding programs.
Please see the event webpage for more information about the sessions and a complete list of speakers.
There is no registration fee for this event.
As seating is limited, please confirm your attendance at the Seminar, by registering online by Thursday, November 1, 2018. Reservations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you cannot attend in person, you are welcome to follow us on Twitter @libraryarchives / @biblioarchives. Information about webcasting will be posted shortly on our website.
November 7, 2018 – Documenting War: Journalists and Storytelling from Conflict Zones
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Barney Danson Theatre, Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, ON K1A 0M8
Presented by Carleton University’s School of Journalism & Communication in collaboration with the Canadian War Museum
The second annual Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture will be delivered by Janine di Giovanni, a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a Professor of Practice, Human Rights.
PLEASE REGISTER HERE FOR THIS FREE EVENT: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2nd-annual-peter-stursberg-foreign-correspondents-lecture-with-janine-di-giovanni-tickets-50457954099
November 7, 2018 – Invitation for the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht
The Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (https://carleton.ca/ches/) will launch the 2018 Holocaust Education Month on November 7th at 7:00 p.m. with a keynote address delivered by Dr Michael Berenbaum, a leading Holocaust expert and one of the founders of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
And a Special Premiere Performance by Niv Ashkenazy: In tribute to the six million whose voices were silenced forever. Mr Ashkenazy, a virtuoso and classically trained student of Itzhak Perlman, will perform on a “Violin of Hope”, that was salvaged from the ashes of the Holocaust and lovingly restored by Amnon Weinstein in Israel.
Wednesday, November 7th, at 7:00pm at the Kehillat Beth Israel Synagogue, 1400 Coldrey Avenue, Ottawa
Please RSVP by Nov 1st, 2018 to: chesatcarleton@gmail.com
November 8-9, 2018 – RMC History Symposium 2018
The program for the Royal Military College’s history symposium, Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in Two World Wars (8-9 November 2018) is set and we have a great schedule lined up this year!
More details and registration info is available at http://rmcclub.ca. Fees: Regular $185, Students $125. Includes registration, lunch and coffee breaks for both days, and dinner at the Fort Frontenac Officer’s Mess on 8 November.
Recommended Hotel, Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront, 2 Princess Street, Kingston, ON K7L. Preferred rate of $124 for a single occupancy room, breakfast included, available until 1 October. See attached poster.
November 9, 2018 – Shannon Lecture with Kisha Supernant, “Good Intentions, Bad Archaeology: The uses and abuses of Canadian archaeology against Indigenous people”
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: In the lands currently called Canada, archaeology is often used to tell stories about the history of this place, but often at the expense of Indigenous nations. Throughout our disciplinary history, archaeologists have positioned themselves as experts on and stewards of the past for the good of all, even though those pasts are sometimes not our own. In this talk, I explore how archaeology in Canada has been and continues to be part of the settler colonial state, centering knowledge from archaeologists and heritage practitioners rather than Indigenous peoples. I provide examples of how archaeological research has marginalized Indigenous voices, even when archaeologists have good intentions, and make some suggestions for how we can move toward a better archaeology for the future.
November 14, 2018 – African Studies Brown Bag: Logan Cochrane, Banting Fellow, Global and International Studies, Carleton University, “Bottom-up Change in a Top-down Government: Changing Policy and Law in Ethiopia”
All Brownbag talks take place on a Wednesday, in The Discovery Centre (room 482 MacOdrum Library), 1:00pm – 2:30pm.
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 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.
Announcements
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