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Monday, November 2, 2015
Vanessa Agnew, will present "Reenacting Genocide," as part of the 2015 Shannon Lecture series, 1:30 PM, Friday, November 13, 2015, in the Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library. Dr Agnew will be speaking about teaching and research as re-enactment, focusing on her recent work on the Armenian Genocide. Dr Vanessa Agnew teaches at the... More
Thursday, October 29, 2015
In July 2014 a group of volunteer photographers from the Workers’ History Museum (WHM) began creating a visual archive to capture and preserve the histories and memories of spaces where thousands once worked at the E.B. Eddy pulp and paper plant. When the project finished they had taken 73,000 images and 36 hours of... More
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Maxime Durand, will present "From Dreams to Realities: Performing History in the Assassin's Creed® video game series," as part of the 2015 Shannon Lecture series, 1:30 PM, Friday, October 23, 2015, in the Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library. This lecture will discuss the methods applied at Ubisoft to interpret the past through... More
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
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 22, 2015
Dr. Bruno Ramirez will present "Through Images, Words, and Sounds: Filmic Narration and Public History," as part of the Shannon Lecture series, 1:30 PM, Friday, October 9, 2015, in the Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library. Dr. Ramirez's talk will address the dangers and rewards of filmic versions of the past. Drawing from his... More
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Dr. Lisa Peschel will present the opening talk of the 2015 Shannon Lecture series, 1:30 PM Friday, September 18, 2015, in the Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library. The talk, "Theatre and the Holocaust: Recently Rediscovered Scripts from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto," illustrated by scenes and songs from scripts uncovered... More
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Up Next: Mr Peter Hinton (Shaw Festival Theatre), “Why Shaw Now? A Modern Pygmalion,” 1:30PM, Friday November 27, 2015, in the Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library. The 2015 Shannon Lecture Series will be on the theme Performing History: Re-Staging the Past. We have five renowned speakers lined up for what promises to be a... More
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Join historians and graduate students from across Canada this May for an evening of live performances connected by the themes of history, memory and narrative. The first-ever Staging Our Histories happens at the National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage on May 31st, 7:30pm. Hosted by the CBC’s Adrian Harewood, Staging Our Histories spotlights eight... More
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
When David Dean was invited by Peter Hinton (then artistic director of the National Art Centre’s English Theatre) to participate in a 2006 workshop of theatre professionals discussing the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, he had little idea that it would lead to several years of working with the English Theatre Company on... More
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Australian historian Greg Dening once remarked that if history is a performance then historians are the performers. Nineteen graduate students taking Professor David Dean’s MA seminar Narrativity and Performance in Public History put Denning’s theory to the test last winter. For Narrativity and Performance, students were asked to produce and... More
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