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Friday, December 8, 2023
History alumnus, Jeff Blackadar, has just published a new paper. The abstract is below with the full paper, Transcribing Handwritten Text with Python and Microsoft Azure Computer Vision, available online. Abstract Tools for machine transcription of handwriting are practical and labour-saving if you need to analyse or present text in digital form.... More
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
History Professor Shawn Graham and Professor Donna Yates of Maastricht University, have just published a joint paper. We were fortunate to have Prof. Yates speak at Carleton University when she was a guest speaker for our annual Shannon Lecture Series. An abstract of the paper, "Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities,... More
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Adjunct Research Professor Veronica Norando was recently quoted in an article on the upcoming presidential election in Argentina. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "A extraordinary provocateur at the gates of power in Argentina," available online. Impoverished and up to their necks in debt, the Argentines no longer know... More
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
History Professor Shawn Graham and Adjunct Research Professor Damien Huffer have just published their new book These Were People Once: The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters. REVIEWS “An easy read on a difficult subject, its beautiful encapsulations of the tragic lives behind their commodified remains highlight the urgency of the... More
Monday, September 18, 2023
Dr. Sean Eedy, Carleton alumnus and contract instructor, just had his book Four Colour Communism reviewed in one of Germany's top history magazines. A short excerpt is below, with the full review available online. Over the past two decades, comics research has established itself in German studies and has become a generally recognized field... More
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
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, June 26, 2023
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
Monday, June 12, 2023
Professor Rod Phillips has published an article, “Liberality, Quality, Festivity: Wine in the French Revolution,” in the print and on-line editions of the World of Fine Wine. Published in the UK, the World of Fine Wine is widely recognized as one of the world’s most influential wine publications, and its scope includes the culture... More
Thursday, June 8, 2023
History Professor Jennifer Evans' book The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism has just been reviewed by Ben Miller of The Baffler, a magazine of art, criticism, and political analysis. A short excerpt is included below, with the full review, "Queer History Now! Learning to Remember Otherwise", available online. Queer historians have... More
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
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, May 3, 2023
History professor Audra Diptée has written a TED-Ed video lesson which focuses on her current project. The video, "They Called it Operation Legacy: The records the British Empire didn't want you to see," is available on YouTube. https://youtu.be/oPGVGckn7kQ... More
“Electricity is everywhere, so researching its impact was an intimidating task. Breaking it down into specific objects, like the oven or a streetcar, and focusing on Ottawa made it far more manageable and felt more personal. Studying historic moments through objects has allowed us to create more of a connection between us and our... More
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