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Thursday, January 6, 2022

Rod Phillips now has a page on shepherd.com

Shepherd.com is a quite new website where authors are invited to introduce one of their own books and recommend books by other authors on the same or a related topic.  Each entry is called The Best Books on…..  The website already lists hundreds of authors, many of them historians. It’s a useful starting point... More

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Jennifer Evans- Panels Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Virtual Symposium

On January 5th, Jennifer Evans was an invited panelist at a symposium on Holocaust memory sponsored by the Wiener Library in organisation with Imperial War Museum Institute, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Wolverhampton. The... More

Thursday, December 16, 2021

History Department – Responding to Omicron

Following the latest instructions from the President of Carleton University, the Department of History will be operating remotely until January 31, 2022. Please note that the Department will be closed over the holidays from Friday, December 24th to Tuesday, January 4th inclusive. For urgent assistance during this time, please email the Chair at... More

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Congratulations Michael Petrou

Michael Petrou, an adjunct research professor in the Department of History, has been hired as “Historian, Veterans’ Experience” at the Canadian War Museum. Part of the job will involve gathering oral histories from veterans about their post-war, and wartime, experiences. These will be made available to the public through a digital portal.... More

Friday, November 19, 2021

Rod Phillips talks about wine in the French Revolution

Professor Rod Phillips spoke (by Zoom) to 24 members of the History Interest Group of the Kanata branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women this week. His topic was wine in the French Revolution and he described the ways in which Revolutionary policies set the course for the French wine industry and French... More

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Royally Wronged

Former Carleton MA students Meagan Breault, Sabrina Schoch, Brittany Long, Ellis Buschek, and David Siebert – together with Jennifer Evans – published a chapter in a new book that explores the historical contribution of the Royal Society of Canada to the production of ideas that undergirded white settler privilege, settler colonialism and the... More

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Uncovering History Through the Dome Mine Doors

A door that once stood inside the Dome Mine (Timmins, Ontario) is covered in layers of inscriptions, detailing the thoughts of the miners who worked in this gold belt. Public history students taking Professor David Dean’s HIST 5707: Narrativity and Performance in Public History used their imagination and research training to explore this... More

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF 2021) – Includes Screening of Michael Ostroff’s Documentary

As part of The Canadian Labour International Film Festival in November, the Institute of Political Economy will be screening a selection of this year’s films. After this content becomes available on November 25th at 7:00 pm, you will have 2 hours to start watching. Once you begin, you’ll have 24 hours to finish watching.... More

Monday, September 13, 2021

Michael Petrou Interviewed for Article on the History of Sept 11, 2001

Adjunct Research Professor Michael Petrou was interviewed by Erica Alini as part of her article describing what the events of September 11, 2001 mean to today's young adults. A short excerpt is provided below with the full article, "For generation Z, 9/11 is history. How do they relate to it?" available online. The fact... More

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Shawn Graham Publishes Op-Ed in Hyperallergic

History professor Shawn Graham and adjunct research professor Damien Huffer have published an op-ed in the arts magazine Hyperallergic drawing on their research into the online human remains trade. "We shouldn’t need a law explicitly declaring “No one can own dead people,” though perhaps that would help. We need enforcement of the laws that... More

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Jeff Blackadar Publishes New Article

History alumnus current MA in History with Data Science student Jeff H. Blackadar and colleagues Benjamin P. Carter and Weston L. A. Conner have just published a new article in the Advances in Archaeological Practice journal. The full article, "When Computers Dream of Charcoal: Using Deep Learning, Open Tools, and Open Data to Identify... More

Friday, August 27, 2021

Tonight: We Still Demand: The Past, Present, and Future of 2SLGBTQIA+ Activism Event

The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) is hosting an amazing event Friday August 27th at 1pm ET titled “WE STILL DEMAND: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF 2SLGBTQIA+ ACTIVISM” with support of the Anti-69 Network, Fredericton Pride, and activist scholars Tom Hooper, Gary Kinsman, and IIS faculty member Patrizia Gentile. The... More

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