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
TONIGHT: April 2, 2019 – “HIST 4302 Documentary Screenings”
The annual screening of narrative historical documentaries from students in Hist 4302 – Making Documentary History – is scheduled for Tuesday evening, April 02 at 7.00 pm in St. Pats, Room 100.
The students of HIST 4302 have a very exciting evening in the works — there’ll be documentaries about a shocking jet fighter crash in Orleans, more than 60 years ago; another about the Halifax explosion of 1917, and the yellow journalism that feasted on it; one about an heroic Ottawa doctor who reported on the appalling conditions he discovered in residential schools in Western Canada, a century ago; and finally, a documentary about the struggles of an Inuit poet and artist during his 50 years of being in Ottawa.
Over the years this class has developed a reputation for its qualitatively distinguished productions, including last year’s “Prosser: A Portrait of a Small Town” which was broadcast on the CBC.
A jury of eminent scholars –– David Dean, Professor of History and Co-Director of the Carleton Centre for Public History; Janne Cleveland, Co-ordinator of the Drama Studies Program; and James Wright, Professor Music –– will select one documentary to be awarded an Underhill prize.
There’ll be plenty of that curiously creative Carleton cheese to enjoy at the post-screening reception and celebration, sponsored by the Department.
Come for the movie magic, stay for the cheese and experience the excitement that “experiential learning” can generate.
TOMORROW: April 3, 2019 – FASS Public Lecture: 2019 Marston LaFrance Lecture
The Renaissance Machine: How Humanists and Mathematicians Rediscovered a Lost Science and Moved the World
Lecture by Professor W. R. Laird, Department of History.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 2:30 pm
***LOCATION CHANGED: NOW IN HISTORY LOUNGE (433 Paterson)***
RSVP to emma.fraser@carleton.ca
Abstract
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, there was no science of machines. The legacy of ancient mechanics in the Middle Ages was only a few fragments constituting the science of weights. Although Archimedes’ works were known by the thirteenth century, they had very little influence. His famous claim, that given a place to stand he could move the earth, was an empty boast. All this changed around 1500, when humanist scholars recovered the Aristotelian Mechanica and fragments of Hero’s lost Mechanica. At the same time, mathematicians rediscovered the science of weights and Archimedes. From these traditions—the Aristotelian, the Archimedean, the Heronian, and the science of weights—they forged a new mathematical science of machines. This talk will sketch the history of the rediscovery of ancient mechanics and suggest how it led to the mechanical philosophy of the seventeenth century and moved the world.
TOMORROW: April 3, 2019 – “Port Talk: Dr Andreas Etges”
Join us in welcoming Dr. Andreas Etges underground as he discusses his latest work, From Confrontation to Détente? Controversies about a planned Cold War Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie is the iconic site of a dangerous tank confrontation between American and Soviet forces in 1961.
“In 2006, as a reaction to criticism that Berlin was neglecting its duty to adequately remember the German division and the Cold War, the government of the city-state of Berlin agreed on a Master Plan for Remembering the Berlin Wall. Its final element is a new Cold War museum at Checkpoint Charlie which aims to tell the international history of the Cold War. The museum project has become the subject of controversies between private and public museums, political parties, the state government of Berlin and the federal government, as well as representatives of the victims of communism and academic historians from Germany and beyond.”
Etges’ lecture will discuss the complications of interpreting a site of memory, the controversies surrounding this museum project, and the conflicts that arise from the meaning and memory of the Cold War.
Date: April 3, 2019
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Diefenbunker Museum, 3929 Carp Road, Ottawa (Carp) ON
Cost: FREE
Website link: https://diefenbunker.ca/events/event/checkpointcharlielecture/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2263800080345093/
April 4, 2019 – Informal Talk with Dr. Andreas Etges
Dr Andreas Etges, Amerika-Institut of the University of Munich will be giving an informal talk in the History Lounge (433 Paterson) on Thursday April 4th 11:30am-1:00pm on German history and memory. Dr Etges is a former member of the steering committee of the International Federation for Public History and co-editor of its new journal, International Public History. A specialist on the Cold War and expert on the Kennedy presidency, he has curated several historical exhibits on John F. Kennedy and is involved in setting up an international museum of the Cold War at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. After the talk, Dr. Etges will be available to meet with individual faculty and graduate students until 3pm either in the lounge or in David Dean’s office.
April 5, 2019 – “Europe’s Borders, Data and Privacy with Didier Bigo and Elspeth Guild”
You are invited to an off-campus public event, Borders, Data, Privacy: Critical Inquiries into European and Global Border Control, with leading scholars Didier Bigo (King’s College London) and Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands). The event is on Friday, April 5, 2019, from 4:00-5:30PM , at Bar Robo (692 Somerset Street West, near the arch in Chinatown).
The event will be a moderated panel with the scholars who will reflect on their current (and past) work on security, migration, borders and also touch on privacy laws and broader questions of international relations.
April 5, 2019 – “Historians and #Metoo: Roundtable”
The University of Ottawa’s Graduate Students Association is pleased to invite you to its annual roundtable organized as part of the 2019 edition of the Pierre Savard Colloquium.
Participants will discuss the impacts of the #Metoo/#Moiaussi movement on historical practices as well as the challenges of writing the history of women and gender in 2019.
We look forward to seeing you on April 5, 2019, at 10:30 AM at SMD129 for this roundtable entitled The Historian and the #Metoo/#Moiaussi Movement : Challenges and Issues of the Writing of Women and Gender History.
April 18, 2019 – “Please, Don’t Drink and Drive: Labatt’s Campaign to Hold Drinking Drivers Accountable in the Age of Neoliberalism” with Matthew Bellamy
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2018
Time: 7 PM
Place: Ottawa Public Library Main Branch (Metcalfe and Laurier)
Dr. Matthew Bellamy is one of Carleton University’s outstanding teachers. In 2005 he was named in Maclean’s Magazine as one of Canada’s most popular professors. In 2015 Maclean’s also called Matthew’s class “The Canadian Brewing Industry” one of Canada’s ‘cool courses’. In 2009 he was a finalist in TVO’s BIG IDEAS Best Lecturer Competition.
Professor Bellamy teaches in the History Department and is the foremost authority on the history of brewing in Canada. His publications on the subject are legion.
Announcements
REQUEST FOR SUGGESTIONS: SHANNON LECTURES IN HISTORY
Bruce Elliott would be pleased to receive proposals from faculty or senior doctoral students for the autumn 2019 Shannon Lectures in History, the department’s annual public lecture series. Though the series deals with the social history of Canada, broadly defined, the terms of reference encourage linkages between approaches to Canadian history and the wider body of international scholarship on a theme, so we also encourage non-Canadianists to propose series. At least two of the sessions should be about Canada. The series is funded through a major gift from the late Lois M. Long, a long-time friend of the Department of History. The fund allows for speakers to be brought from throughout North America and overseas. Some colleagues have chosen to organize the series in connection with a seminar course, so that the students can meet with and hear the people they are reading. Dominique and Ann have arranged for a slot to be reserved on Fridays next fall so that it would be possible for anyone contemplating this to overlap a seminar with the time of the lecture. Anyone offering to organize the series will receive plenty of help and guidance along the way. If you have any thoughts as to a topic, please contact Bruce Elliott at bruce.elliott@carleton.ca.
Call for Submissions, Gunn Award for Best Historical Essay on International Migration in Canada
The Gunn Award is a $1000 prize for the best historical essay on migration to and settlement in Canada. It is jointly awarded by Wilfrid Laurier University’s International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) and the Canadian Immigration Historical Society (CIHS).
Essays from any discipline in the social sciences and humanities that address migration to and settlement in Canada from a historical perspective will be considered. The award is national, and submissions from fourth-year and graduate students enrolled in any Canadian university, written in either French or English, will be accepted. Papers are reviewed by a committee of IMRC and CIHS associates/members.
The submission deadline for the current competition is Friday, June 14, 2019. Results will be announced in the fall of 2019
If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to imrc@wlu.ca.
Empower Me Counselling Services for Undergraduate Students
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