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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Professor David Dean recently published a short article on "Living History" in the Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies (2019). Edited by Vanessa Agnew (who gave a 2015 Shannon Lecture on "Reenacting Genocide"), Jonathan Lamb and Juliane Tomann, the handbook provides the first published overview of significant concepts within reenactment... More
Monday, January 6, 2020
Last year TED-Ed, a division of TED (Talks), invited Professor Rod Phillips to write the script of an animated short on the history of alcohol for their series of educational videos. The history of alcohol is one of his fields of research and he teaches a third-year course on it at Carleton. The script... More
Monday, December 16, 2019
Professor Rod Phillips' latest book, "Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink That Changed Our Lives" has just been reviewed in the American Association of Wine Economists. Below is a short excerpt from the review by Kevin Goldberg with the full review available on the AAWE website. Rod Phillips has been busy... More
Monday, December 9, 2019
History Professor Shawn Grahan's new book Failing Gloriously and Other Essays has now been published by the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. A short excerpt is included below with more details and reviews online. Please, you gotta help me. I’ve nuked the university. Failing Gloriously and Other Essays documents Shawn Graham’s... More
Monday, November 25, 2019
Michael Petrou has published an article in the most recent edition of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association that is based on research he presented to the History department last year. Abstract: During the World War II, the British Secret Intelligence Service recruited more than 30 Yugoslav Canadians to infiltrate the Balkans and... More
Brock University's Centre for Canadian Studies hosted a talk by History Professor Matthew Bellamy entitled "Something Very Unforeseen: How a Bootlegging Manager-Entrepreneur saved Labatt from Prohibition". The event occurred on November 21 at 3:30 p.m. in Sankey Chamber. Matthew Bellamy specializes in Canadian business, political and cultural... More
Monday, September 16, 2019
Professor Chinnaiah Jangam has written an article for The Wire entitled "After Kashmir, What Does the Hindu Right Have in Store for Dalits?" A short excerpt is below with the full article available online. Electoral politics have become a litmus test for democracy in India. The scrapping of Articles 370 and 35A was the... More
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Chancellor's Professor, Norman Hillmer, was recently interviewed for a podcast that has been posted on The Champlain Society website. The podcast is available online and details on the interview can be found below. Episode Details: "Witness to Yesterday: The Drama of Oscar Skelton" O.D. Skelton was a key thinker in getting Canada out of... More
Thursday, June 27, 2019
The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project is an investigative study led by a collection of anthropologists and heritage experts digging into the digital underworld of transnational trafficking, terrorism financing, and organized crime. They have just released a new report entitled "Facebook's Black Market in... More
Monday, June 24, 2019
Professor Rod Phillips spent 12 days in Shanghai, China, in June. He participated in the “Changing Minds: Societies, States, the Sciences and Psychoactive Substances in History” conference at Shanghai University, 11-14 June. It was sponsored by the Center for Drug Policy Studies at Shanghai University, the Centre for Social History of Health... More
Friday, March 29, 2019
With colleagues Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo) and Scott Weingart (Indiana University) Carleton’s digital historian Prof. Shawn Graham has written a pioneering book on big data and history. The book describes and demonstrates the ways data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research, and in teaching and... More
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Dr. Marcel Jesenský, Contract Instructor in the History Department, has published a new book entitled "The United Nations under Ban Ki-moon: Give Diplomacy a Chance" on the United Nations from 2007-2016. About the Book: This book chronicles the story of the United Nations under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the decade 2007–2016. Marcel... More
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