{"id":26920,"date":"2025-06-09T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=26920"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:45:36","slug":"hist-5316g-unsettling-the-prairie-west","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/hist-5316g-unsettling-the-prairie-west\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST 5316G: Unsettling the Prairie West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        HIST 5316G: Unsettling the Prairie West\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HIST 5316G: Unsettling the Prairie West<\/strong><br><strong>Fall 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu-people\/michel-hogue\/\">Professor Michel Hogue<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong> &nbsp;In their documentary film, <em>The Nest<\/em>, filmmakers Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt use the storied past of a sprawling Winnipeg mansion to guide viewers through \u201c140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political histories.\u201d The project, which includes a wide range of collaborators\u2014from descendants to activists to community members\u2014seeks to challenge the \u201csettler colonial stories of belonging\u201d that have infused histories of the region and the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this seminar is designed to introduce you to the historiography of the Prairie West, it uses the conceptual and methodological challenges posed by Singh and Joynt to consider both the construction of a settler historiography of the region and the decolonial possibilities posed by alternate historical frames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Format: This is an in-person seminar course that will meet every week for three hours. The seminar will be based in the shared consideration of the class readings, as well as related workshop activities, and a screening of <em>The Nest <\/em>(featuring the filmmakers).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Questions?&nbsp;<\/strong>Please feel free to contact Professor Hogue at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:michel.hogue@carleton.ca\">michel.hogue@carleton.ca<\/a>&nbsp;if you would like more information about the course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIST 5316G: Unsettling the Prairie WestFall 2025 Instructor: Professor Michel Hogue Course Description: &nbsp;In their documentary film, The Nest, filmmakers Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt use the storied past of a sprawling Winnipeg mansion to guide viewers through \u201c140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political histories.\u201d The project, which includes a wide range of collaborators\u2014from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[303],"class_list":["post-26920","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26921,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26920\/revisions\/26921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=26920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}