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
February 26, 2019 – Journalism’s 20th Annual Kesterton Lecture with Tanya Talaga
Please join us for Seeing/Saying: Journalism, Indigeneity and Hard Truths on February 26, 2019.
The Journalism program’s 20th Annual Kesterton Lecture featuring journalist and author Tanya Talaga will explore the chasm between seeing and saying through the lens of her research into the deaths of seven Indigenous students in Thunder Bay.
The event will be moderated by APTN’s Francine Compton.
For details and to register for this free event: https://bit.ly/2B6Slt2
February 27, 2019 – Historians Engaging with Transitional Justice: Collaborative Storytelling for Peace Building in Colombia
2:30-4:30pm, 2017 Dunton Tower
A talk by: Catalina Munoz, Assistant Professor
History Department, Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia
Catalina Munoz is on the steering committee of the International Federation for Public History. She obtained her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania (2009) and have carried out public history projects parallel to her academic work as a historian. Her original research has focused on indigenous communities in the northern provinces where they suffered from residential schools and more recently on the truth and reconciliation discussions around the peace process in Colombia.
Sponsored by Carleton’s Centre for Public History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
February 28, 2019 – Trading on New Terms: Civil Society and North American Free Trade
9:30am-4:00pm, Second Floor Conference rooms in Richcraft Hall
What will be the impact of the new USMCA trade agreement?
How have civil society organizations (from both business and non-business sectors) attempted to influence the nature and content of the negotiations?
What is the impact of the Liberal government’s Progressive Trade Agenda, which promises greater consultation around trade policy?
Carleton University’s Laura Macdonald, a Professor in the Department of Political Science, raises these questions and more at a day-long symposium organized into three panels. Join scholars from Canada, Mexico and the United States, and civil-society representatives, in a discussion of this important topic.
Program for the 2019 Symposium.
March 22, 2019 – Michael Petrou: “Yugoslav-Canadians in the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War”
The History Department invites you to a talk by Adjunct Professor Michael Petrou as part of our Brown Bag Friday Occasion Series. Bring your lunch and join us in the History Department Lounge, 433 Paterson, at 12:30pm.
March 29, 2019 – Chinnaiah Jangam: “Caste, Humiliation and Violence against Dalits in India”
March 29, 2019 at 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
The History Department invites you to a talk by Professor Chinnaiah Jangam, Assistant Professor in the History Department, as part of our Brown Bag Friday Occasion Series. Bring your lunch and join us in the History Department Lounge, 433 Paterson, at 12:30pm.
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.
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.
Food Drive for the CUSA Food Centre – February 2019
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will be collecting for the CUSA Food Centre, on behalf of the initiative by the Registrar’s Office. We have a collection box in the kitchen on the 4th floor.
Thank you in advance!
Call for Children’s Museology Fellows
Deadline: February 25, 2019
This pilot initiative seeks to contribute to Museum Studies scholarship and museum best practices by exploring how museums can better include children, a neglected demographic, in the work of their institutions. The project asks how museology–the study and practice of museum work–would change if children were to be included not just as a topic of display or as target audience members, but as active participants and co-creators of museum content and programming.
For decades, Museum Studies scholars have called for a “New Museology” with greater inclusion of marginalized communities and diversification of exhibit content. Yet despite their ubiquity and significance as a population, children have not received the same serious consideration and integration as many other marginalized groups.
This initiative recognizes children and youth as experts on themselves and their experiences who have a great deal to teach adults about how to make more engaging, interactive, and inclusive exhibits and programming. In addition, it recognizes the power and potential of museums and exhibits to help children realize their civil rights.
Eligibility and Requirements:
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines with an interest in children’s museology are encouraged to apply. Children’s Museology fellows will meet every two weeks from March 1- May 31, 2019. They will contribute to a collaborative literature review and conduct online research, site visits, and interviews with museum practitioners and child and adult visitors. We will visit several local sites of interest, including the Canadian Museum of History’s “Reimagining the Canadian Children’s Museum” project that will redesign and develop the Children’s Museum over the next three years. Participants will receive a stipend of $200/month for a total of $600 across the course of the fellowship program.
Application Requirements:
Interested candidates should email Professor Monica Patterson <monica.patterson@carleton.ca> a copy of your student audit and a brief 1-2 paragraph statement identifying the following:
- Your current program of study and expected graduation date
- Your reasons for wanting to participate in this initiative
- Any relevant background, training, or experience you may have
- Any limitations you may have to your availability within the proposed time period
If you have any questions, please contact Monica Patterson <monica.patterson@carleton.ca>.
Call for Papers
The Sociology & Anthropology Graduate Student Caucus (SAGSC) Conference Committee invites submissions for the 6th annual graduate student conference: Writing on the Wall: Intersections of the Social
This year, the SAGSC committee invites students to submit work that critically engages with the power that that structures social research and society. The committee aims to provide an opportunity and platform for undergraduate and graduate students to share their unique research, and receive insightful feedback from colleagues and peers in a supportive and encouraging environment. The conference will take place April 4th in Dunton Tower (Room 2017) at Carleton University.
We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to:
- Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology
- Law, Criminology, and Socio-Legal Studies
- Political Science and Economics
- Human Rights
- Geography
- Canadian and Indigenous Studies
- Women and Gender Studies
- Religion, Philosophy, and more
If you are interested please submit an abstract to sagsc.carleton@gmail.com by Friday, March 1st, 2019. For more detailed information about the conference and submission guidelines, please see the attached poster and call for papers.
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