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 7-8, 2019 – “25th Annual Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium”
As you know, the Underhill Colloquium is hosted each spring by the graduate students in this department. The colloquium provides a forum for master’s and doctoral students from all disciplines to present papers on a wide range of history-related topics. The event has grown somewhat over the years and has brought in participants from various Carleton departments, as well as a number of universities across Canada and the United States, and a few from universities in Europe.
One of the objectives of the colloquium is to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue. The event is also intended to encourage interaction between faculty and graduate students. A number of you have added immensely to the atmosphere of past Underhills by attending a panel and engaging with the presenters during the question-and-answer period. We hope that many of you will be able to make time in your busy schedules again this year to attend a panel or two or three. A full schedule of the panels can be found at https://carleton.ca/underhill/2019/2019-colloquium-schedule/
We especially want to draw your attention to the keynote address, which is to be delivered this year by Dr. Joshua MacFayden, Canada Research Chair, University of Prince Edward Island. His address, entitled “Flax Americana: The Hemispheric Ripple Effects of a Luxury Commodity in the Global North” will take place at 6:00 pm on Friday, March 8th, in the College of the Humanities Lecture Theatre, 303 Paterson Hall. In addition, Dr. McFayden will be presenting a Brown Bag Workshop entitled “Average Beasts and Where to Find Them: Mapping Livestock and other Bio-Converters in Canada’s Rural Energy Transition” from 1:15 – 2:15 pm on Thursday, March 7th, in the History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall.
The colloquium also features a Film Screening and Panel Presentation: Radical reels II: Revealing Carleton University’s union past through documentary filmmaking, the finished product, by Martha Attridge Bufton, Diego Guzman, Andrea Pybus, and Tai Zimmer from 3:45-4:45 pm on Thursday, March 7th in the History Lounge, 433 Paterson and the 25th Anniversary Alumni Panel presented by the Carleton Alumni Association, featuring three distinguished alumni of our department – Dr. Anthony Michel, Kristy von Moos, and Connie Wren-Gunn, from 3:00-4:00 pm on Friday, March 8th, in the History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall.
To mark our 25th Anniversary, we are having a 25th Annual Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium Celebration, from 4:30-6:00 pm, with a few words from Dr. James Opp at 5:00 pm. Please join us for snacks, cocktails and cake to celebrate with current students, faculty, and alumni.
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 8, 2019 – “EWB’s SDG”
On March 8th from 2-3:30 PM, the Carleton chapter of Engineers Without Borders will be hosting the President & Vice-Chancellor of CU Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon, the Assistant Vice President of Facilities Management and Planning Gary Nower, and Associate Professor Dr Cynthia Cruickshank to discuss how Carleton University is addressing the Sustainable Development Goals on campus and our role in making the world a better place through the SDGs. Learn about the past, present, and future projects Carleton is investing in to take meaningful steps towards a better campus for all. This event is FREE, tea & coffee will be provided and a short Q&A will be held at the end of our presentations.
To find out more about the event, find it on Facebook here.
March 8, 2019 – “Día de Internacional de la Mujer, coloquio “Mujeres, agenciamiento, representación”
En el marco del Día de Internacional de la Mujer la Embajada de México en Canadá y el Programa de Español de la Universidad de Ottawa invitan al coloquio “Mujeres, agenciamiento y representación”
Viernes 8 de marzo, de 5 p.m. a 7 p.m.
Sala SMD 430
60 University Private, Ottawa ON K1N 8Z4
March 12, 2019 – “Revising 40 Years of Spanish Democracy: A Success Story?”
Xosé M. Núñez-Seixas, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, gives a lecture at the University of Ottawa on issues related to the Spanish Constitution, the process of democratic transition and its consolidation, with a special focus on its interpretations.
In order to bring perspectives of the political reality of Spain as a country, and in the framework of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Constitution, Professor Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas will address issues related to the Spanish Constitution, the process of democratic transition and its consolidation, with a special focus on its interpretations, considering that it has been recently called into question by some political and social actors. He will also refer to the territorial and the historical memory issues. This lecture will be presented by Professor Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.
As part of this lecture series, three conferences will be held at Canadian universities: McGill University (Montreal), University of Ottawa, York University (Toronto). The lectures will be in English with possibility of questions in French at the end. They will be moderated by professors of each of the host universities.
Simard Hall, Room 125, University of Ottawa, 60 University Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 8Z4
March 13, 2019 – “Brexit and the Single Market”
The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) housed at the Centre for European Studies is co-hosting a public lecture with the Department of Political Science on “Brexit and the Single Market” with Dr. Michelle Egan from the American University in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, from 2:30PM to 4:00PM in the FASS Lounge, 2017 Dunton Tower at Carleton University.
About the Event: The vote to leave the European Union and the administrative chaos surrounding British “exit” have dominated domestic debate in the United Kingdom, where “leaving the single market” is described by supporters as a seamless solution to economic and social divisions within British society. It is more accurately viewed as transforming the British state in profound and unpredictable ways, and as a countermovement against the neoliberal mode of European integration and a disruption to the single market. This discussion will review the domestic impacts for the UK of leaving the single market, the effect of Brexit on the single market in Europe, and the safeguards in place to mitigate the risks on the European single market.
For more information, and to register, please visit: https://carleton.ca/ces/cu-events/public-lecture-brexit-and-the-single-market-with-dr-michelle-egan/
March 16, 2019 – “Wine and Cheese”
On March 16th, at 6:30 PM EWB’s annual Wine and Cheese will be held at Ottawa’s very own Impact Hub. Our Wine and Cheese is an event that aims to bring students and people passionate about international development closer to individuals who have vast experience in the field, whether it is from the perspective of policy and advocacy or the “on the ground” direct impact perspective. The evening is organized into a short networking period, followed by three speaker presentations, followed once again by a networking period. The attending audience consists of student members/alumni of EWB, professors at Carleton University and potentially members of the EWB National Office.
Find more about this event on our Facebook event here. You may pruchase tickets here.
March 18, 2019 – “What Should Canadians Know — and What Can They Do — About Criminal and Justice Reforms During This Election Year?“
The Dick, Ruth, and Judy Bell Lecture is an annual lecture that honours the contributions of individuals to the political and public life of Canada.
The 2019 Lecture “What Should Canadians Know and Do About Criminal Justice Reforms During This Election Year?” will be presented by Senator Kim Pate. Kim Pate was appointed to the Senate of Canada on November 10, 2016. First and foremost, the mother of Michael and Madison, she is also a nationally renowned advocate who has spent the last 35 years working in and around the legal and penal systems of Canada, with and on behalf of some of the most marginalized, victimized, criminalized and institutionalized — particularly imprisoned youth, men and women.
Event Details
Doors open at 6:30pm
Lecture from 7:00 – 8:30pm
Reception in Richcraft Hall Atrium from 8:30 – 9:30pm
Free to attend and open to the public. Advance registration is required.
This event is part of 2019 FPA Research Month
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 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 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.
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
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!
Rappel: Séminaire intensif à Québec, 10-24 mai 2019
C’est avec beaucoup de plaisir que je vous rappelle aujourd’hui la tenue de l’édition 2019 du Séminaire d’été à Québec (FREN4300/5501 : Littérature et culture de la Nouvelle-France). Offert en français, un peu à Ottawa, mais surtout au cœur du Vieux-Québec, il s’adresse non seulement aux étudiant(e)s avancé(e)s de l’Université Carleton (idéalement, 3e année complétée), mais aussi à ceux et celles inscrit(e)s ailleurs au Canada, notamment chez vous. Programmé au trimestre de mai-juin 2019, il se tiendra à Ottawa les 10 et 11 mai (formation intensive) et à Québec du 12 au 24 mai.
Parmi les activités prévues figurent la transcription d’un manuscrit du xviiie siècle, des conférences prononcées par des chercheurs de la région de Québec, de nombreuses visites guidées de musées, de lieux et bâtiments historiques et de centres d’archives, des promenades commentées en ville et, bien entendu, des discussions passionnantes. En outre, les cours proprement dits se tiendront dans l’édifice du Vieux-Séminaire, soit dans un bâtiment du xviiie siècle. En préparation de ces activités in situ, les étudiant(e)s se familiariseront avec la production lettrée de la Nouvelle-France (chroniques, relations de voyage, histoires) et quelques fictions françaises composées à la même époque au sujet de la colonie. À la fin du séminaire, il va sans dire que toutes et tous auront acquis en peu de temps une excellente connaissance à la fois livresque et concrète d’une période foisonnante, trop souvent réduite à quelques noms et dates.
Les détails principaux se trouvent à l’adresse suivante (code QR de l’affiche ci-jointe): http://www.carleton.ca/french/seminaire-dete-a-quebec/ Les étudiant(e)s de votre Département qui voudraient s’inscrire pourront le faire à titre d’étudiant(e) libre (special student), en payant les frais de scolarité ordinaires pour 0.5 crédit (environ 700$). Je leur fournirai le lien sur demande et pourrai les aider dans leurs démarches. Les candidat(e)s retenu(e)s jouiront tous et toutes du même traitement à partir d’Ottawa: transport, hébergement, visites, deux repas gastronomiques et conférences, entre autres. Autrement dit, les frais de 250$ sont les mêmes pour tout le monde. Par contre, le transport entre le lieu de résidence des étudiant(e)s de votre Département et Ottawa serait à leur/votre charge. Quant aux quelques jours d’hébergement à Ottawa avant le départ pour Québec, ils pourraient être subventionnés selon le budget disponible.
Si le projet vous semble digne d’intérêt, je vous invite donc à diffuser l’annonce (et l’affiche ci-jointe) auprès des étudiants de votre Département. N’hésitez pas à m’écrire (sebastien_cote@carleton.ca), que ce soit pour obtenir de plus amples informations ou pour me référer des étudiant(e)s potentiel(le)s.
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