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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Shannon Lectures Series Fall 2023 – Registration Open Now

The Shannon Lecture Series will run again this fall, beginning on October 16th. We hope to see you there! Introduction to the Series Rewriting Refuge There are in Canada, as in other countries, many stories about refuge. Some of this history has been used to create powerful nation-building myths, which in turn have facilitated... More

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Laura Madokoro to Speak this Saturday, Sept 9, on North American Perspectives on 1923

History Professor Laura Madokoro will be one of the panelists this Saturday, September 9, 2023, at a special online symposium looking back on a century of global racial exclusion. More details on this event can be found online. Registration is required for this event: https://1923symposium.eventbrite.com   Date and time Sat, Sep 9, 2023 1:00... More

Friday, September 1, 2023

Patrizia Gentile Participates in Stratford Festival Roundtable

Scholars and experts joined host Thom Allison (director of Rent) in a conversation about Canada’s 2SLGBTQ+ history, focusing on post-WW2 through to the present. Guests include Rev. Brent Hawkes, founder of Rainbow Faith and Freedom (an organization working to confront and decrease religious-based 2SLGBTQ+ discrimination worldwide), Raegan... More

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Rod Phillips comments on the Trudeaus’ separation

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed by several media organizations about the recently announced separation of Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.  Rod is a specialist in the history of marriage and divorce, and the media were interested in changing attitudes toward separation and divorce and the potential political impact of the... More

Monday, July 31, 2023

Rod Phillips speaks on wine and food in art

Professor Rod Phillips will give his annual talk on wine and art at the Timken Art Museum in San Diego, California, on 13 August.  He was first invited to give a talk on wine in art there in 2019, and he was then invited to return annually.  The pandemic prevented talks in 2020 and... More

Monday, June 26, 2023

Jennifer Evans Speaks at Packed Auditorium in Berlin

On June 21st, Jennifer Evans gave the Midterm Lecture to a packed auditorium at the Friedrich Meineke Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin. She spoke about her recent book The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism which makes the case for a more subjective, intersectional analysis of trans and queer histories. In an... More

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Join Paul Nelles’ Book Launch on May 16th

Please join History Professor Paul Nelles on Tuesday, May 16 at 11:00 am EST for the launch of his new volume, Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), co-edited with Rosa Salzberg. This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Laura Madokoro to Participate in Upcoming Panel

History Professor Laura Madokoro will be one of four panelists participating in "Talking Freely: A Chinese-Canadian Conversation". May 24 5:00 to 6:30pm Richcraft Hall, 2nd Floor Atrium Panelists: Dr. Xiaobei Chen Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University Dr. Laura Madokoro Associate Professor, Department of History,... More

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Danielle Kinsey Talks to NBC News about the Queen Mary’s Crown

History Professor Danielle Kinsey spoke with NBC News following the decision to reset Queen Mary's crown without the controversial Kohinoor diamond. A short excerpt of the article by Brahmjot Kaur can be found below with the full article, "Camilla swaps the Kohinoor diamond for another controversial stone on her coronation crown," can be found... More

Friday, December 16, 2022

What’s Cooking in the History Department?

The History Department has a cookbook! The recipes in this departmental cookbook were collected as part of a pandemic-era social event held over Zoom in January 2022. Attended by History students and professors alike, the recipes within speak to a time when we couldn’t gather to share food among friends and colleagues. With this cookbook, the... More

Thursday, December 15, 2022

New Shannon Lecture Series Starting in January!

The History Department is happy to announce that our next Shannon Lecture series will be starting up again at the beginning of 2023. This year's series is "Climate Histories" with convenor Professor Joanna Dean: January 9: Climate in the Age of Empire: Three Centuries of Canadian Climate Observations with Victoria Slonosky, McGill University... More

Monday, November 21, 2022

NEW: Hollis Peirce Bursary for Students with Disabilities

Hollis Peirce is a physically disabled BA/MA Carleton graduate in History. (He was also an executive member of our History Undergraduate Society - HUgS.) During his years at Carleton University, he very often faced physical boundaries, such as taking a book off the bookshelf at the library, or not being able to hit buttons... More

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