{"id":15876,"date":"2017-03-01T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15876"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:45","slug":"paul-litt-give-keynote-address-university-albertas-2017-graduate-student-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/paul-litt-give-keynote-address-university-albertas-2017-graduate-student-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Litt to give keynote address at University of Alberta&#8217;s 2017 Graduate Student Conference"},"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                        Paul Litt to give keynote address at University of Alberta&#8217;s 2017 Graduate Student Conference\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"257\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-240x257.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Litt\" class=\"wp-image-15640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-240x257.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-160x171.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-400x429.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size-360x386.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Paul-Litt-headshot-reduced-size.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/paul-r-litt\/\">Paul Litt<\/a>, cross-appointed in History and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Conference of the University of Alberta\u2019s History and Classics Graduate Student Association (HCGSA). Scheduled for March 2 \u2013 4, 2017 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, it will have the theme of \u201cCelebration and Commemoration\u201d in light of Canada\u2019s 150th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be their eighth conference representing the interests of members and furthering the intellectual and social interests of graduate students in the disciplines of History and Classics. The conference has an international reach, bringing in presenters from across Canada, the United States, and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Litt was chosen as keynote speaker due to his research, particularly on the role of media in political history and public memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details on previous conferences are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyandclassics.ualberta.ca\/GraduatePrograms\/HCGSA\/AnnualConference.aspx\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Paul Litt, cross-appointed in History and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Conference of the University of Alberta\u2019s History and Classics Graduate Student Association (HCGSA). Scheduled for March 2 \u2013 4, 2017 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, it will have the theme of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15877,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876\/revisions\/15877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}