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Monday, May 16, 2016
Prof. George Rigakos has recently completed a new publication, released via Edinburgh University Press. The book, entitled Security/Capital A General Theory of Pacification, offers a radical social theory of the security-industrial complex, showing how pacification underpins the global economic system. What is security, and what is its... More
Friday, April 29, 2016
Congratulations to Prof. Ummni Khan who received the FPA Research Excellence Award at yesterday's FPA Spring Social! Prof. Khan works in an area of research that explores the relationship between law and sexuality. The committee was impressed with her strong publication and presentation record and felt that her research will make a significant... More
Thursday, April 28, 2016
In today's issue of the Ottawa Citizen, Prof. Dawn Moore weighs in on the dispute over the rewriting of campus policy on sexual violence and the inclusion of the term “rape culture”. The article is entitled "Battle lines drawn over 'rape culture' at Carleton University", and features Prof. Moore expanding on the importance of the inclusion... More
Monday, March 21, 2016
Thanks to 1125@Carleton and its spotlight on undergraduate research conducted by Khadija Ahmed, a fourth-year student who is completing a Combined Honours in Law (with a concentration in Transnational Law and Human Rights) and Women's and Gender studies. Khadija is a member of this year's cohort of the Born Social Fellowship, a program... More
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Congratulations to Prof. Rebecca Bromwich, who has been awarded a research grant! Her project, "Privacy Protection, Tort Law, and Emerging Uses of Mobile Technologies in Medicine", will receive funding from the Foundation for Legal Research, an organization whose mandate is to help enable the creation of top-quality legal writing—one of the... More
Friday, February 26, 2016
PhD candidate Lisa Wright is set to compete in the Carleton 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition next week. Come out and support her on Tuesday, March 1st from 1:00 – 2:30 pm in 2220 River Building! For more information on the event, please visit: http://gradstudents.carleton.ca/professionaldevelopment/3-minute-thesis/ About 3MT The 3MT is a... More
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Prof. Dawn Moore, Prof. Vincent Kazmierski and instructor Lisa Wright have recently been published in a special issue of Social Justice, entitled 'Beyond Mass Incarceration'. The paper is called "Policing Carceral Boundaries: Access to Information and Research with Prisoners". ... More
Friday, February 5, 2016
Congratulations to Professors Dawn Moore, Dale Spencer, Diana Majury, Doris Buss, and George Rigakos, who won grants totaling more than $275,000 for their research, supported by the Government of Ontario’s Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan. Earlier this afternoon, MPP Yasir Naqvi was on campus to formally announce the funding of two... More
Thursday, February 4, 2016
In its recent issue, University Affairs Magazine is highlighting technological innovations like EssayJack, a digital essay-structuring tool co-founded and developed in 2014 by Prof. Rueban Balasubramaniam and Dr. Lindy Ledohowski. EssayJack is an interactive web-application that pre-structures student essays, reduces writing anxiety, and allows... More
Monday, January 18, 2016
Book launch: Access to Information and Social Justice: Critical Research Strategies for Journalists, Scholars and Activists Co-edited by Kevin Walby and one of our instructors, Jamie Brownlee! Date: January 21, 2016 Times: 7:00 pm Location: Octopus Books, 251 Bank St., 2nd floor Access to Information and Social Justice combines the political... More
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Congratulations to Prof. Rebecca Bromwich, whose new book "Looking For Ashley: Re-Reading What the Smith Case Reveals about the Governance of Girls, Mothers and Families in Canada" has gone to press! More information on the book, which will be available from Demeter Press, can be found... More
Monday, September 14, 2015
An article by PhD candidate, Tyler Totten, has been published in the Western Journal of Legal Studies. Originally presented as part of our Department's Colloquium series last year, the article entitled "Should Elephants Have Standing", is now available online. To read the article in full, please... More
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