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Thursday, August 8, 2024

Rod Phillips heads to San Diego to talk about wine and art

Professor Rod Phillips will give his annual public lecture on wine and art at the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, California, on 18 August.  He’s been giving a lecture there in August since 2019, with time off for covid. The Timken is a private, free-admission gallery in Balboa Park that houses an... More

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer’s Book Reviewed in Hyperallergic

History Professor Shawn Graham and Adjunct Research Professor Damien Huffer have co-authored a new book, These Were People Once: The Online Trade in Human Remains, and Why It Matters (Berghahn Books, 2023), which was just reviewed by Erin L. Thompson for Hyperallergic. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "Why Is... More

Friday, July 5, 2024

Rod Phillips talks about the LCBO strike

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed by several media outlets on the eve and on the first day of the LCBO strike. He is a historian of alcohol and also a wine writer and commentator on alcohol policy. He discussed the background to the strike and pointed out that a key issue for the union... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Rod Phillips’s new book is on wine in eighteenth-century Burgundy

Professor Rod Phillips’s latest book, Un curé dans les vignes (A Priest among the Vines), has just been published in France by Éditions Universitaires de Dijon.  It is co-authored by Jean Bart, an old friend of Rod – they met in Paris in 1989, at a conference for the bicentennial of the French Revolution... More

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Two Generations of Graduates Celebrating Together

On Friday, members of the History Department came out to proudly watch our undergraduate and graduate students cross the stage for convocation. It was an especially exciting time for one of our graduates, Mary Gunn! Not only did she win the University Medal, but she also crossed the stage that morning with her youngest... More

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Rod Phillips talks about the history of Bordeaux wine

Professor Rod Phillips gave an hour-long interview on the history of the Bordeaux wine trade for Areni Global, a fine wine think-tank based in London, UK.  His interview is the sixth episode of a seven-part series on La Place de Bordeaux, the network of agents that has effectively controlled Bordeaux’s wine sales for centuries. ... More

Monday, June 17, 2024

W. R. Laird Publishes New Book

Professor Emeritus W. R. Laird has just published The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism, Archimedes 68 (Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2024). The two tomes of Francisci Maurolyci Archimedea, ed. Riccardo Bellé, Pier Daniele Napolitani, and Beatrice Sisani, Edizione Nazionale dell’Opera Matematica di Francesco... More

Monday, June 17, 2024

Profile of Anna-Karina Tabuñar, June 2024 Graduate

From June 17 to 21, at the Carleton University Fieldhouse, the community will come together to celebrate spring convocation. The ceremonies will honour more than 5,200 students as they receive their degrees. Below is the excerpt from Elizabeth Kane's article, "Inspiring Spring Graduates Look Back on Time at Carleton," with the full post available... More

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Rod Phillips publishes piece on ‘neo-Prohibitionism’

Professor Rod Phillips has published a short piece, in the weekly Newsletter of Meininger’s Wine Business International (an important wine trade publication from Germany), on the notion of ‘neo-Prohibitionism’.  This is a term that is becoming widely used in the alcohol business to refer to advice from public health organizations (such as... More

Monday, June 10, 2024

Congratulations! History Students Win Medals at June 2024 Convocation

The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton Dunton (BA Honours in Psychology with History Minor) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Undergraduate Level. Mary Kathleen Gunn (BA Honours in History) for winning the University Medal (Faculty of Arts... More

Monday, June 10, 2024

Rod Phillips interviewed on alcohol and food

Professor Rod Phillips has been interviewed several times recently on the history and current status of alcohol and food. One interview was for Radio CFRA Ottawa, where Rod talked about the liberalization of alcohol retailing in Ontario and its likely consequences. (Alcoholic drinks other than spirits will be available from convenience stores and... More

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Jennifer Evans Wins Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship

Congratulations to History Professor Jennifer Evans for winning the 2024-2025 Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship! The title of her upcoming lecture will be "How Photography Shaped the Sexual Revolution". This is our Faculty’s leading award for research excellence. It was an exceptionally strong field this year with more applicants than usual.... More

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