Archives: visiting scholar

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

PhD Student William Tait Blogs About Master Class With Dr. Gil Loescher

As part of the the three-day workshop “Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime,” held by Migration and Diaspora Studies from September 23-25, graduate students were invited to participate in a master class with preeminent historian of refugees Dr. Gil Loescher. Loescher has been a pioneer in the study of the relationship between... More

Monday, July 20, 2015

Dr. Wilfried Mausbach, Executive Director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies to be a Visiting Research Scholar This July and August

Dr. Mausbach, the executive director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at Heidelberg University in Germany, comes to the History Department from July 15 to August 15 as a participant in the Ontario Baden-Württemberg exchange program. He is a guest of both the History Department and the Research Centre in American Studies,... More

Sunday, July 19, 2015

History Department Welcomes Professor Alicia Mayer This August

The History Department is pleased to welcome Professor Alicia Mayer of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in August 2015. Professor Mayer is a distinguished scholar whose work has garnered many awards.  Her publications on the history of ideas in Mexico are numerous; her particular niche is a comparative approach to intellectual... More

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

October 22: Natasha Erlank: “Women and Memorialisation in Contemporary South Africa”

Natasha Erlank, University of Johannesburg, will be speaking on “Women and Memorialisation in Contemporary South Africa” on Wednesday, October 22 at 1:00 pm in the History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall. Since 1994 cities across South Africa have moved to commemorate the heroes of the struggle against apartheid through the naming of public space... More

Thursday, September 11, 2014

September 18: The Infection of Impurity: Contaminated/Contaminating Victorian Male Bodies

Public lecture by Lesley Hall, senior archivist at the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine and a highly regarded historian of sexuality in Britain. Thursday, Sept. 18 at 4:00 pm at the History Department Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall Co-sponsors: Department  of History and Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies/Sexuality Studies, Carleton;... More

Monday, June 23, 2014

One day workshop to welcome Dr. Kevin O’Sullivan, historian of humanitarian aid, July 9, 2014

Kevin O’Sullivan will be a visiting scholar at Carleton University from July 8 to August 4 and will be in Ottawa this coming July to research Canadian archives.  Kevin is the architect of the rich   http://nonstatehumanitarianism.com/ , a founding member of ‘Transnational Ireland’ International Research Network and the author of many... More

Monday, May 5, 2014

“Making knowledge public in early modern Europe” international workshop co-organized by Carleton’s Paul Nelles

Making knowledge public in early modern Europe: a discussion on actors, theory, methods Wednesday 07 May 2014 09:00 - 19:00,Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute. Sponsored by Carleton University. The workshop aims at bringing together a group of PhD students, postdoctoral and senior... More

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

March 14: Matt Lauzon: Ambassadrices extraordinaires: Gender and Religion in France’s Middle East Diplomacy (1685-1709)

Friday March 14, 2014 from 12:30-1:30 in the History Lounge, 4th Floor, Paterson Hall. During Louis XIV’s long reign, France was unusual in the extent to which women served, officially and unofficially, as diplomats. This talk will explore the curious cases of two such women – Anne Marie de Pontac de Guilleragues (b.1632) and Marie... More

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