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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Third Shannon Lecture a great success

At least 90 people, including a Canadian history class from the University of Ottawa, attended the third Shannon Lecture on Friday, November 18. Professor Maureen Lux from Brock University gave a powerful lecture on the disturbing history of the treatment of Canadian indigenous people in so-called Indian Hospitals after 1945. The lecture was... More

Friday, October 28, 2016

History Professors to Speak at Symposium: Children, Youth and War on Nov 19

History Professors Dominique Marshall and Susan Whitney will be speaking at the upcoming Symposium: Children, Youth and War at the Canadian War Museum. About the Symposium: While adults begin and end wars, children and youth are often caught in the middle. Join us for a thought-provoking symposium examining the life-changing effects of armed... More

Monday, October 17, 2016

Charlotte Gray launches new book tonight

Adjunct Research Professor Charlotte Gray is launching her new book The Promise of Canada tonight at the Writers Festival. The excerpt below is from the Writers Festival website where the full text and event details can be found. On the eve of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations comes a richly rewarding new book from acclaimed historian... More

Monday, October 17, 2016

History Book Sale Coming Soon: Great Books at Great Prices

Are your bookshelves overflowing? Do you need space for more books? Or are you on the lookout for more (inexpensive) tomes? On Thursday and Friday (October 20th and 21st) the History Department is holding its annual book sale in the History Lounge (Rm. 433, Paterson Hall). Thanks to several recent donations of a large... More

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Envisioning Technologies Exhibit now in the History Department

The exhibit Envisioning Technologies will launch at 4pm on Friday, October 14th at the Department of History of Carleton University (4th floor, Paterson Hall). It will follow the second public Shannon Lecture, given by Dr. Melanie Panitch of Ryerson University (to be held in MacOdrum Library). The exhibit is the latest creation of Carleton... More

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

History students’ film to premiere at Reel Asian International Film Festival

"I Did It All For You", the short documentary produced in last year’s HIST 4302 class by Jenn Ko, Sabrina Nemis, Ryan Pickering and Amina Egeh will have it’s world premiere on November 13, 2016 at the Reel Asian International Film Festival. The film is a narrative historical documentary about the Vietnamese Boat People who settled in... More

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Great turnout at this year’s first Shannon Lecture & launch of the Pinhey’s Point Foundation exhibit

Professor Susanne Klausen and Christine Chisholm pose with Professor James Moran in front of the Pinhey Exhibit soon after he gave the first Shannon Lecture of 2016. Moran's lecture on the history of lunacy trials in the trans-Atlantic world was extremely well attended and provoked interesting discussion with members of the audience. The... More

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Deborah Gorham Launches Marion Dewar Biography

Carleton History Professor Deborah Gorham will be launching her new book Marion Dewar: A Life of Action at the upcoming Ottawa Writers Festival, tonight. When: Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Where: Councillors Lounge, 2nd Floor, Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Ave West Info: This free event is open to... More

Monday, September 12, 2016

Pinhey’s Point Foundation exhibit “Remedies, Elixirs, and Medical Men” in the History Department

The Department of History is currently home to the Pinhey's Point Foundation exhibit "Remedies, Elixirs, and Medical Men" in the department on the 4th floor of Paterson Hall, the first of two exhibitions that will visit the department this autumn to complement the theme of this year's Shannon Lectures in History, entitled "Critical Care:... More

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Public Lectures: When Modern Japan Was Young – John Cooper-Robinson and Global Photography in the Late Nineteenth Century, February 4 & 10.

The Embassy of Japan in Ottawa recently opened a public exhibition of late nineteenth-century photographs taken by the Canadian missionary and educator John Cooper-Robinson depicting life in Meiji-Taishō Japan. As part of the exhibit Dr. Jacob Kovalio from Carleton’s Department of History will present a lecture, When Modern Japan Was Young: A... More

Monday, February 1, 2016

Remembering a Fateful Night

On Feb 3, 1916, fire struck the Parliament Buildings. By 3 pm the next day, Parliament had moved down the street, and settled in amongst the fossils, minerals and art of the newly built Victoria Memorial Museum, now the Canadian Museum of Nature. Parliament remained there for 4 years. The Canadian Museum of Nature... More

Friday, January 29, 2016

Book Launch Today: Abortion Under Apartheid by Dr. Susanne Klausen

In her new book Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa, Dr. Susanne Klausen discusses how ideas about sexuality were fundamental to apartheid culture, and how the authoritarian National Party government attempted to regulate white women’s reproductive sexuality in the interest of... More

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