Archives: Shannon

Sunday, September 24, 2017

First Shannon Lecture a Success!

It takes a hot topic for people to forgo the beautiful weather we’ve been having, but the first Shannon lecture of this fall’s series on Expo 67 drew an enthusiastic crowd to the library’s Discovery Centre on September 22nd. Dr. Gary Miedema, author ofFor Canada’s Sake: Public Religion, Centennial Celebrations, and the Re-making of... More

Monday, November 2, 2015

Shannon Lecture–“Reenacting Genocide”

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

Performing History, Performing Heritage: Photos of the E.B. Eddy Complex

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

Shannon Lecture–“From Dreams to Realities”

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 22, 2015

Shannon Lecture–“Filmic Narration and Public History”

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

Shannon Lecture–“Theatre and the Holocaust”

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

2015 Shannon Lectures – Performing History: Re-Staging the Past

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

Monday, December 8, 2014

Karen Rader speaking on Natural History Museums, at Carleton on December 12 at 1 PM

"Animals on Display: Transforming Exhibition Traditions in Natural History and Science Museums" December 12 1:00-2:30 PM 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University. John Berger, critic and writer, famously said that “in the last two centuries, animals have gradually disappeared.” Those who share his view contend that animals have been removed from... More

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Susan Nance: Does Elephant Experience Matter to History? Shannons Lecture, Friday December 5 at 1 PM, 303 Paterson Hall.

The history of animals is the final frontier of the historical discipline, a discipline that has traditionally been concerned with human ideas, human activity and human development. Meanwhile, animals have always been historical actors. Their interaction with one another and people has shaped the common history of all species. To understand how... More

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Friday Nov 28: Sean Kheraj on the Great Epizootic of 1872-1873. Shannon Lecture Series, Humanities Lecture Theatre, 303 Paterson Hall, from 1:00-2:30 pm.

In early October 1872, a mysterious illness swept through the urban horse population of Toronto. The Globe first reported the phenomenon on 5 October 1872, noting that “[f]or some time past a large number of horses in the city have been affected with disease of the respiratory organs, but during the present week another... More

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

November 14: Nigel Rothfels on Saving the Prehistoric Horse

November 14, 2014 Humanities Lecture Theatre, 303 Paterson Hall, from 1:00-2:30 pm. This paper traces the history of the Przewalski’s Horse from the late nineteenth century to today. Scientifically described in 1881 and extinct in the wild a century later, the Przewalski’s Horse is now being reintroduced into reserves in China and Mongolia.... More

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

November 7 George Colpitts on Bison, Pemmican and the Sating of Society in the Northern Great Plains, 1780-1870

George Colpitts will be giving the opening lecture for the 2014 Shannon Lecture Series:   "A sumptuous and movable feast: Bison, pemmican and the sating of society in the Northern Great Plains, 1780-1870" on November 7, in the Humanities Lecture Theatre, 303 Paterson Hall, from 1:00-2:30 pm.  A reception will follow.   In the late... More

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