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: 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.
TODAY: March 27, 2019 – “Lecture on contemporary Chinese art by Dr. Paul Gladston”
Lecture: ‘A Closer Look at Contemporary Chinese Art’ with Paul Gladston
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 – 6:30pm, OAG: 50 Mackenzie King Bridge, Ottawa, ON, K1N 0C5, CANADA | 613.233.8699 | info@oaggao.ca
In the Alma Duncan Salon | Free
During the last four decades, contemporary Chinese art has become increasingly prominent on the international stage. Despite a series of high-profile exhibitions worldwide since the late 1980s and the international fame of the artist Ai Weiwei, the varied significances of contemporary Chinese art nevertheless remain largely obscure to audiences outside China. Contemporary Chinese art is not defined simply by concerns with political censorship within China. It also raises serious issues about the relationship of contemporary art to politics, society and cultural identity more widely. What sort of dialogue do contemporary Chinese artists have with western art and the art of the Chinese diaspora? How do they respond to China’s five-thousand-year history and civilization? In this talk the award-winning cultural historian and critic, Paul Gladston will respond to these and other questions by discussing contemporary Chinese art from differing international and localized Chinese perspectives. In doing so, he will seek to open up a broader transcultural understanding of contemporary Chinese art beyond the limited and often prejudicial view of the Euro-American artworld as well as restrictions imposed on the public showing and interpretation of contemporary art inside a still politically authoritarian China.
Paul Gladston is the inaugural Judith Neilson Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of New South Wales and was previously Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. His recent book-length publications include Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History (2014), which received ‘publication of the year’ at the Award of Art China 2015. He was founding principal editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art from 2014 to 2017 and an academic adviser to the internationally acclaimed exhibition Art of Change: New Directions from China staged at the Hayward Gallery-South Bank Centre London in 2012.
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
March 30, 2019 – “Bunker Trivia Night”
Gather your friends and join us for 2019 Trivia Night. The theme will be Canadian Heritage Minutes. Feel free to dress up in tour favourite Minute inspired attire or featured personality!
Date: Saturday, March 30th, 2019
Time: 7pm -11pm (doors open at 6pm)
Tickets: $30/person plus tax OR $220 plus tax for a team of 8.
There are only 120 spots available! Get in on this exclusive event now!!
There will be a bar (cash and credit accepted) with KIN Vineyards wine, Ridge Rock beer, and select non-alcoholic beverages.
Included in your ticket:
Participation in the trivia games (4 rounds – 15 questions per round). In the event of a tie, we will move to a top-secret tiebreaker round to determine the winner
Optional 30 minute mini tour of the Diefenbunker Museum
A Polaroid of your team
Snacks and light refreshments.
One free drink per guest
Prize for the winning table.
Bragging rights! Let’s face it, you will be only the second ever Diefenbunker trivia night winners!
And most importantly – Support for your favourite local charity (that’s us!!)
No tickets will be sold at the door. Please purchase them in advance.
Website link: https://diefenbunker.ca/events/event/trivia-night/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/419721562096731/
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.
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 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.
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.
Job Posting
The Department of History invites applications for an eight month teaching-term position beginning September 1, 2019, subject to budgetary approval, in the field of Indigenous History. Research and teaching interests in all thematic and geographic areas of the field will be considered. We are particularly encouraging applications from candidates whose interests address broad global themes in Indigenous History. Our department has established expertise in social, cultural, environmental, military and maritime history, with an emphasis on Newfoundland, Canada and the North Atlantic. The minimum qualification for teaching term appointments is normally a completed doctoral degree in the discipline. Clear evidence of teaching and research excellence is required, and candidates should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching dossier, and the names and contact information for three references. Applications should be directed to Dr. Jennifer Simpson, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, A1C 5S7; Fax: (709) 864-2135; e-mail: hss@mun.ca.
Deadline for applications is March 29, 2019. See attached poster for details.
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