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Friday, December 8, 2023

Jennifer Evans and Former Public History Students Publish New Book on Holocaust Memory and Social Media

This month, Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape will be released by Bloomsbury UK. Written by Jennifer Evans together with former students Meghan Lundrigan and Erica Fagen, it is a landmark intervention in the field of memory studies, Holocaust studies, and public history. As founder and co-president of the Memory Studies Association Jenny... More

Friday, November 9, 2018

Jennifer Evans to bring international conference on Holocaust and genocide studies to Ottawa

Together with her co-host Jan Grabowski at the University of Ottawa, Jennifer Evans will bring a major international conference in Holocaust and Genocide Studies to Ottawa in the fall of 2020. In partnership with the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University,  Evans and Grabowski will organize the biannual Lessons &... More

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

History student wins Colonel John By Award for a essay on Garden City plans for Campus Site

Mary MacGregor, a student in Bruce Elliott's Canadian urban history/Ottawa neighbourhoods class won the annual 2014 Colonel John By Award for an essay on the plans for a garden city suburb in Old Ottawa South and the site of Carleton campus. Her essay will be published in the Historical Society of Ottawa series.  The... More

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Doctoral candidate Andriata Chironda featured in article on refugee research at Carleton

Chironda's research focuses on the history of international migration and refugee protection policy since the end of the Second World War. She is particularly looking at African refugees. “Government policies and programs affect and define people’s lives and my goal is to contribute towards producing knowledge which puts “people” at the... More

Friday, May 29, 2015

Ninth Canadian History and Environment Summer School, May 29-31, jointly hosted by Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

The theme of CHESS 2015 is Ottawa: Environmental Capital, an invitation to consider the relationship the environment has to Ottawa’s role as the nation’s seat of government. The summer school will bring together graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members and others to observe the many ways in which longstanding contestations... More

Friday, April 17, 2015

Student Documentaries Explore People and Place in History

In case you missed the April 2 student documentary screening, two of the four films produced for HIST 4302, Making Documentary History are now available online. No Road Home by Alison Murdock, Rebecca Sykes, Jennifer Bate & Stephanie Desjardins During the 1950’s the St. Lawrence Seaway Hydro project was created to modernize Canadian... More

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