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: 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 2, 2019 – Adjunct Professor on The National regarding the origins and launch of Canada’s Private Refugee Sponsorship program.
An interview with newly appointed Carleton Adjunct Research Professor, Michael Molloy, will be part of a special report on CBC’s The National this Sunday evening (March 2). March will mark the 40th anniversary of the initial sponsorship agreement signed between the government and the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). Under the Agreement the government agreed to simplify and streamline the processing of refugee sponsorships by Mennonite congregations in return for an MCC commitment to assist congregations that ran into difficulties meeting their responsibilities. Dozens of other faith communities followed suit just as the Indochinese refugee crisis peaked in South East Asia. The unprecedented response of Canadian civil society and faith communities to the plight of Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian refugees enabled Canada to absorb 60,000 refugees, more than half of whom were sponsored, between January 1979 and December 1980.
Others included in the report are Gordon Barnett and William Janzen who negotiated the MCC “Master Agreement” for the government and the MCC respectively.
March 8, 2019 – LERRN and JHR: Putting Refugee Women and Girls’ Rights in Headlines in Conflict Zones
This International Women’s Day, March 8th, Journalists for Human Rights and LERRN (The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network) warmly invite you to attend ‘Putting refugee women and girls’ rights into headlines’.
Hear from experts and practitioners about how local knowledge and perspectives enrich efforts to ensure protection and solutions with and for the world’s most vulnerable victims of conflict.
Friday March 8, 3:30- 5PM
Discovery Centre, Room 482, MacOdrum Library
Program and Speakers:
- Journalists for Human Rights’ Executive Director Rachel Pulfer will introduce the panel and moderate.
- Nimo Bokore, Assistant Professor of Social Work at Carleton University, will speak on her experiences researching the needs of women and girls in refugee situations. She will discuss the LERRN initiative and the importance of localizing knowledge to support protection and solutions, with and for refugees;
- Award-winning journalist Michael Petrou will speak from his experiences covering Syrian refugees across the Middle East;
- Journalists for Human Rights’ Senior Programs Manager Zein Almoghraby will speak about the work JHR has done for women and girls in refugee situations and conflict zone
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!
Summer Student Heritage Interpreter Jobs at Laurier House NHS
They are looking for bilingual students to work at Laurier House National Historic Site this summer 2019. Please see the attached poster for more details. These positions are great for students who love history, museums and work with the public.
English Department Annual Poetry Competitions – Open to all students
Lilian I. Found Award for Poetry:
For the Lilian I. Found award, one prize will be awarded for the best unpublished poem of 50 lines or less by an undergraduate student currently enrolled at Carleton. The donor is the late Mrs. Lilian. I. Found, who endowed the Award in 1950, and was the convener of the Ottawa Poetry Group and Canadian Poetry Contest in the 1940s.
George Johnston Poetry Awards:
For the George Johnston Awards, three prizes are awarded annually, along with two honourable mentions, for the best unpublished poem (up to 5 poems may be submitted, not to exceed 250 lines) submitted by full or part-time students currently enrolled at Carleton. The late George Johnston, was a distinguished Canadian poet, professor, and founding member of the English Department at Carleton. His colleagues originally established this prize in his honour in 1992.
An independent judge from Ottawa’s poetry community selects all award winners annually. Deadlines for submission are early March annually and winners are announced in late March. There is no entry fee for these competitions.
Submissions accepted up until Mar. 1, 2019, 4 p.m.
MA in Religion and Public Life
The MA in Religion and Public Life (right here at Carleton) is accepting applications for Fall 2019.
The College of Humanities offers a twelve-month MA program consisting of two coursework semesters, followed by a summer research semester, leading to a Major Research Essay (which is examined but not defended). The program is housed in the College of Humanities and is delivered by faculty specialized in Religious Studies. Strong domestic applicants usually qualify for financial support, including teaching or research assistantships; qualified international students can also receive assistantships, but do not normally qualify for tuition support. The advertised application deadline of 1 March is not absolute.
Our MA cohorts are typically quite small (generally no more than six students per year), so students enjoy considerable attention from faculty who lead seminars and supervise research projects. Consequently, for many of our graduates the MA has served as a pathway to further graduate studies in both Canada and the United States. Others have gravitated towards employment in government and non-governmental sectors.
Further information can be found on the enclosed poster. Interested students may contact Prof. Johannes C. Wolfart, Graduate Supervisor, MA in Religion and Public Life: (tel. 613-520-2600 x2932; email Johannes_wolfart@carleton.ca)
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