Archives: active history

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Susanne Klausen on Witnessing South Africa’s #FeesMustFall Campaign

Dr. Susanne Klausen, currently in Cape Town, South Africa, has been a witness to South Africa's #FeesMustFall campaign. In a blog for Active History Dr. Klausen remarks on the importance of history to the student movement for free education, which began October 21. As Dr. Klausen states: "It’s been an exciting and inspiring week in South... More

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Carleton History at the Active History Conference

Carleton History will have a terrific presence at the Active History Conference taking place at Huron College, London, Ontario this weekend (October 2-4, 2015). John Walsh and our visiting fellow Jean-Pierre Morin will be addressing the future of Public History programmes, while John will also speak about student learning and Jean-Pierre on... More

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

History Grad Susan Joudrey Talks to Active History About the 1923 Raid on Calgary City Hall

Carleton University History graduate Susan Joudrey (Ph.D., 2014) recently discussed the 1923 Calgary Stampede Raid on City Hall on Active History's "History Slam." As Joudrey explained to host Sean Graham, a group of First Nations men staged a publicity event by "invading" Calgary City Hall and established a new municipal government. In the... More

Friday, June 26, 2015

Ann Walton Recaps This Winter’s Most Highly Attended Talk

In case you missed last April's talk by Ken Dewar on Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas, you're in luck. Earlier this month, Carleton M.A. candidate Ann Walton wrote a thorough summary of the talk on ActiveHistory.ca. The article outlines the central ideas in Dewar's talk - biography and intellectual history and the... More

Friday, December 19, 2014

Carleton Historian Susanne Klausen’s Thalidomide Research in the News

The Victoria times Colonist recently featured a story on Canadian scientist and thalidomide research pioneer Frances Kelsey for which Carleton medical historian Susanne Klausen was interviewed. Considered by many to be among the most important scientists in Canadian history, the Vancouver-born Kelsey is credited with preventing the entry of... More

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Active History blog by doctoral student, Christine Chisholm, “Thinking about Thalidomide in Transnational History: Canada and South Africa”

What was the global impact of thalidomide? On September 24th, the Department of History, the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies/Disability Studies, and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University came together to host two speakers to Ottawa as part of a day-long meeting on the transnational history of the infamous drug thalidomide.... More

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