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Monday, January 6, 2020

Jennifer Evans publishes article in the Washington Post

Jennifer Evans published an article in the Washington Post December 27th that explored the controversy surrounding a recent art collective's effort to chasten Germans for seeming to forget the lessons of the... More

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Jennifer Evans gives banquet address at annual meeting of German historians.

Jennifer Evans has been invited to give a banquet address this weekend at the German Studies Association annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA on the New Fascism Syllabus project she co-curates with Lisa Heineman at the University of Iowa. The syllabus is a compendium of primary and secondary sources exploring the history of authoritarianism, fascism,... More

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Jennifer Evans to attend international conference on Global Cities during the Cold War in Hong Kong in April

Jennifer Evans will present her research on the postwar situation in Cold War Berlin at a conference sponsored by the City University of Hong Kong in April. This material, from her book Life Among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), assesses the fluidity of borders and boundaries in the... More

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Susan Whitney Reflects on the Paris Attacks

Nous sommes tous des Parisiens once again, only ten short months after the horrible attacks at Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store in Paris on January 7.  On Friday night, North Americans watched in stunned silence as a series of terrorist attacks unfolded on our computer and television screens, their perpetrators seemingly intent on... More

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Mark Phillips “Hogarth and History Painting” Lecture

Mark Phillips, professor in the Department of History and ICSLAC, will present on "Hogarth and History Painting," on Friday, November 20th at 2:30pm in 412 St. Patrick's Building. The free lecture, open to all, is sponsored by the Friends of Art History. To examine Hogarth’s art through the lens of history painting must seem a... More

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Susanne Klausen Wins a William Evans Fellowship from the University of Otago

Dr. Susanne Klausen will be returning to New Zealand as a William Evans Fellow for February and March, 2016. The History Department at the University of Otago applied to bring Klausen to the university, where she will take part in a variety of events. During her visit she will give a public lecture on her recently published... More

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Susanne Klausen launches “Abortion under Apartheid” at the University of Johannesburg

Dr. Susanne Klausen launched her book Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality and Women's Reproductive Rights in South Africa at the University of Johannesburg Auckland Park Kingsway Campus on November 4. In Abortion Under Apartheid, Klausen discusses how ideas about sexuality were fundamental to apartheid culture, and how the... More

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, October 20, 2015

Shawn Graham Wins Judge’s Choice Award at 2015 Heritage Jam

Dr. Shawn Graham's digital project "Listening to Watling Street," has won a Judge's Choice Award at the 2015 Heritage Jam, sponsored by the University of York, Department of Archeology. "Listening to Watling Street" is Dr. Graham's experiment into sonifying the digital representation of the past. The song reflects concentrated areas in the... More

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Animating the Archive: Prof Michel Hogue’s “Metis and the Medicine Line”

Michel Hogue speaks so energetically about the personalities in his new book Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), you’d almost think he had met them in person. But as you might expect from an assistant professor in the History department, it turns... More

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope, by Prof Shawn Graham

With colleagues Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo) and Scott Weingart (Indiana University)  Carleton's digital historian 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 learning. It... More

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Daniel McNeil Wins Carleton University Research Prize Award

Daniel McNeil was awarded a Carleton University Research Prize at the annual Passion for Research Luncheon, on Monday, October 5. The Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) Steering Committee, which McNeil chairs, received a Building Connection research award for its history of achieving outstanding success in building relationships and... More

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