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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

Monday, November 20, 2017

Jennifer Evans wins major grant from the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada announced over the weekend the results of the Spring 2017 funding competition. Included among Carleton's winners was Jennifer Evans, whose Insight Development Grant will enable her to pursue a project with noted Canadian audio-visual artist Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. Their... More

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Jennifer Evans receives guest professorship in Paris.

Jennifer Evans will spend May 2018 as guest professor at the Centre de Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po, Paris thanks to the co-sponsorship of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme. During her professorship, she will provide a guest lecture on her research in social media memory formation and its place in Holocaust Studies.... More

Thursday, September 28, 2017

The Moose is Loose! Matt Bellamy publishes on Moosehead in Encyclopedia Canada

Matt Bellamy contributes to the Encyclopedia Canada on the history and legacy of Moosehead Brewery. Equal parts family history, business history, and the cultural analysis of a brand, it is provides an excellent example of how the story of a single brew can encompass so much of Canadian life. The article may be accessed here:... 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

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

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

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Allison Smith Presents “Mary Ann Shadd Revisited: Echoes From an Old House”

Allison Smith, who recently graduated with her Master’s in Public History, submitted a Master’s research project that comprised a 30-minute historical documentary film and a short reflexive essay.  Her film is about a collection of letters to and from African American abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd between 1851 and 1863 – years that she lived... More

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Metis and the Medicine Line at Congress!

Don't miss Michel Hogue and the University of Regina Press at Congress this year, where they will be launching Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People. Metis and the Medicine Line looks at "how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous... More

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Marilyn Barber and Murray Watson Publish Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada Since 1945

We're delighted to announce the recent publication of Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada since 1945 (March 2015) by Carleton's Marilyn Barber and Murray Watson (Dundee University, Scotland) by University of Manitoba Press. About Invisible Immigrants The book documents the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada... More

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Learn About a “Global Economy of Salvation” this Friday

When: Friday, February 06, 2015, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Where: History Lounge PA433 Paterson Hall Cost: Free Contact: Dominique Marshall, (613) 520-2828, history@carleton.ca Professor Nelles' research centres on the intellectual culture of the Renaissance, and especially on the libraries, public and private, that both fostered that culture and were in... 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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