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
March 21-22, 2019 – “Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds: Women and the Search for Global Order, 1919-2019”
The Historical Section (PORH) is pleased to sponsor a two-day conference on the history of women and Canada’s international history on the theme, Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds: Women and the Search for Global Order, 1919-2019. Linking past and present, this symposium will explore how Canadian women have influenced Canada’s place in the world during the 20th century and beyond. Speakers will highlight the diverse ways in which Canadian women have shaped international relations, peacebuilding, security, humanitarian aid and development, as well as offering international historical perspectives on empowered women in diplomacy. The full conference program is available here.
Robertson Room, Lester B. Pearson Building, 125 Sussex Avenue, Ottawa
There is no fee, but as space is limited, we ask participants to register in advance. Government-issued photo identification will be required for entry to the Lester B. Pearson building. Also, please note that due to renovations, access to 125 Sussex Drive is temporarily confined to the King Edward Avenue entrance at the rear of the building.
Parking at the venue is extremely limited. Attendees are encouraged to use public transportation or park in the nearby Byward Market. For information on public transportation, please visit the OC Transpo website. For information on parking in the nearby Byward Market, visit Parkopedia. A map to the Market area is available here. For more information, please email Stacey Barker or Greg Donaghy.
March 22, 2019 – Michael Petrou: “’Anti-British…roaring communist…but has courage’: The wars of Canadian SOE agent Steve Markos”
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.
During the Second World War, the British Special Operations Executive recruited some 25 Yugoslav and Hungarian migrants to Canada to parachute into the Balkans to liaise with partisan groups on the ground, report to the British on their makeup and nature, and help coordinate armed resistance between the British and these local groups. Many of the recruits were members of the Communist Party of Canada who had lived difficult lives on the margins of Canadian society, harassed by the RCMP and threatened with deportation. The SOE’s worried about the loyalty and motives of some of these men but felt that their family and party connections made them invaluable assets to the Allied war effort. This presentation will explore some of these tensions — as they affected members of the SOE who recruited Canadian agents, and among the agents themselves. Special attention will be paid in particular to one recruit: Steve Markos, a “roaring communist” who infiltrated into occupied Europe and found himself a prisoner of the Red Army.
March 22-23, 2019 – The Seventh Annual Carleton Art History Graduate Student Conference
“Interactions: Collaboration in the Arts” is the title of the 2019 Art History Graduate Student Society (AHGSS) annual conference. This year’s theme centers around notions of interactivity within arts spaces and artistic practice, both for viewers and artists alike. Graduate students from Carleton and elsewhere will be invited to present conference-style papers or lead workshops related to their research on the topic.
Friday evening Social and Keynote: https://www.facebook.com/events/2061805867452292/
Saturday Conference: https://www.facebook.com/events/311880566347333/
Download the full-size PDF conference poster here: AHGSS 2019 poster (web)
March 23-24, 2019 – “Anti-69: Against the Mythologies of the 1969 Criminal Code Reform”
Taking place in Richcraft Hall.
Anti-69: Against the Mythologies of the 1969 Criminal Code Reform is being organized to provide a forum for scholarly and activist work critical of the mythologies and limitations of Canada’s 1969 Criminal Code reform (on its 50th anniversary). In June 1969, amidst the rhetoric of the “Just Society,” the White Paper on the extinguishing of Indigenous sovereignty, and the early years of the initiation of state multiculturalism, the Canadian government passed an omnibus Criminal Code reform bill. While often celebrated for fully decriminalizing homosexuality or providing access to abortion and reproductive rights, this is not what the reforms did, nor is it what they were intended to do. the Anti-69 conference, and its concurrent film and video program, place this reform —and the struggles around it—in its broader social, historical, colonial, classed, racialized, gendered and sexualized contexts.
You can see the conference program here: https://anti-69.ca/program/
You can access the film and video program here:https://anti-69.ca/video/
The deadlines for registering is Sunday, March 10th!
The Anti-69 organizers would also like to invite you to a Film Screening of Forbidden Love at 8:00 pm, Saturday March 23rd at the SAW Video’s Knot Gallery. Space is limited so please register via the anti-69 website.
If you have any questions please contact Lara Karaian at lara.karaian@carleton.ca.
March 26, 2019 – “The Fight for Justice for Mariano Abarca Breaks New Ground in Federal Court”
6:00-7:30pm in 360 Tory
Mariano Abarca was a Mexican anti-mining activist killed by security guards hired by a Canadian mining firm. Latin American and Caribbeans Studies and Mining Watch Canada are hosting a discussion with members of the Abarca Family and Allies to talk about economic diplomacy, Mariano’s legacy, and why the case is important and precedent-setting.
March 27, 2019 – “Florence Bird Lecture 2019: Ann Cvetkovich”
Free Event: Florence Bird Lecture 2019: Ann Cvetkovich – “Artist Curation as Queer and Decolonial Museum Practice: Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice”
Wednesday March 27 from 4:00pm-6:30pm
Dunton Tower Room 2017
* This event includes a lecture, question period, and a reception with light refreshments
**Please R.S.V.P. and direct any questions to Katharine Bausch katharinebausch@cunet.carleton.ca
The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton invites you to attend the 2019 Florence Bird Lecture, featuring our new director, Ann Cvetkovich. She was previously Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Director of LGBTQ Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992); An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke, 2003); and Depression: A Public Feeling (Duke, 2012).
The Florence Bird Lecture: “Artist Curation as Queer and Decolonial Museum Practice: Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: This talk draws on a book in progress, which chronicles the recent proliferation of LGBTQ archives as a point of departure for a broader inquiry into the power of archives to transform public histories. The push for LGBTQ state recognition, civil rights, and cultural visibility has been accompanied by a desire for the archive–a claim that the recording and preservation of LGBTQ history is an epistemic right. Yet new LGBTQ archival projects must also respond to historical and theoretical critiques, including decolonizing ones, that represent archives as forms of epistemological domination and surveillance or as guided by an impossible desire for stable knowledge.
POSTPONED: March 29, 2019 – Chinnaiah Jangam: “Recast(e)ing Violence against Dalits in India”
he 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.
The violence against Dalits (Untouchables) in India continues to rise. According to the latest available Amnesty International Human Rights Report, more than 40,000 crimes were committed against Dalits in 2016 alone. Sanctioned and reinforced over centuries, the everyday humiliation and brutal violence against Dalits is not a new phenomenon but has been further exacerbated by the rise of the Hindu right-wing political forces in India. This talk attempts to build a historical framework to understand the nature of recent violence by the privileged caste Hindus against the social and political assertion of Dalits by focusing on the infamous massacre/lynching of Dalits in Karamchedu and Chundur in 1985 and 1991 respectively.
March 30, 2019 – “Hard truths and fake news”
Please join the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom and the School of Journalism and Communication for Hard truths and fake news: A timely boot camp for users of democracy
and defenders of press freedom.
March 30, 2019 in the Atrium of Richcraft Hall.
For more information and to register: https://bit.ly/2IpgYYa
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.
April 2, 2019 – “The EU and the Crisis of the International order: Past Mistakes, Present Challenges and Future Policies”
The Jean Monnet Chair in EU Relations with Russia and the Eastern Neighbourhood, housed at the Centre for European Studies is pleased to invite you to a Research Seminar on “The EU and the Crisis of the International order: Past Mistakes, Present Challenges and Future Policies”.
A panel of visiting scholars will present their research on this topic including; Maryana Rabinovych, University of Hamburg, Diana Potjomkina, United Nations University and Ionela Maria Ciolan, Bucharest National University. The event will take place on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 10 AM to 11:30 AM in the Alumni Boardroom, 617 Roberston Hall at Carleton University.
For more information please visit: www.carleton.ca/eureast/events
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
Dunton Tower room 2017
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.
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.
Capital Heritage Mentorship Program
The Capital Heritage Mentorship Program will connect experienced senior managers in the culture and heritage sectors, with new graduates wishing to embark on a career in heritage, and emerging professionals who wish to move their career to the next level.
This year, we are offering 8 mentorship opportunities, two of which include paid internships at either The Haunted Walk or Ubbink Book and Paper Conservation. They can find more information about the program and the mentors on our website at: www.capitalheritage.ca/mentorship/.
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