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Friday, December 8, 2023

Book Roundtable – The Queer Art of History

From time to time, the New Fascism Syllabus hosts roundtable discussions centered around emerging historiographical contributions, questions, or issues. Featuring some of the leading voices on these various debates, these contributions in this series are intended to serve as an Open Access window onto new directions in historical analysis on... More

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

History Department Alumnus Joshua C. Blank Launches Book

On Saturday May 7, 2016 during the annual Kashub Day festival in Wilno, Ontario Joshua C. Blank (MA, 2010) officially launched his book, Creating Kashubia: History, Memory and Identity in Canada’s First Polish Community. Several hundred descendants and residents - some who travelled from as far away as Northern Poland – unveiled family stones,... 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

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

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Rod Phillips on the History of Alcohol

Professor Rod Phillips' book Alcohol: A History has been published by the University of North Carolina Press. Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and... More

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

A Canadian Girl in South Africa

Book Launch: Friday, September 25, 12:30-2:30pm in the History Lounge, Paterson Hall You are invited to attend the launch of E. Maud Graham's memoir, A Canadian Girl in South Africa (University of Alberta Press, 2015). Originally published in 1905, Graham’s memoir describes her experience as a teacher in the concentration camps established for... More

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Professor David Dean’s History, Memory, Performance Now Available

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

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Carleton’s Mark Phillips on <i>Historical Research on Canada and Beyond</i>

On Saturday, November 1, Prof. Mark Phillips lectured as part of a panel on Historical Research on Canada and Beyond presented by the Canadian Historical Association. Phillips is a professor in the Department of History and his recent book On Historical Distance was the winner of the prestigious Canadian Historical Association’s Wallace K.... More

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Tim Cook speaks to Globe and Mail about The Necessary War

Professor Tim Cook has recently been featured in the Globe and Mail, discussing his new book The Necessary War, Volume 1. Read the whole story, "Going the distance to chronicle Canada's necessary... More

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Prof Chinnaiah Jangam publishes in The Indian Economic and Social History Review

Dr. Chinnaiah Jangam has recently published "Desecrating the Sacred Taste: The Making of Gurram Jashua - the Father of Dalit Literature in Telegu" in The Indian Economic and Social History Review. Click here to read the full... More

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Release of Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe Since 1945

Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe since 1945, has recently been published by Bloomsbury. Edited by Jennifer Evans and Matt Cook, the volume also features work from Jane Freeland, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. "Queer Cities, Queer Cultures examines the formation and make-up of urban subcultures and situates them against the... More

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