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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Congratulations to graduating MA student Anhelina Ostapyk on winning the School's TA Award for 2023-24!! Her TA contributions to CDNS 2001 made for ‘…a successful and enjoyable course. Students improved their work as the term progressed, due in large part to the quality of the feedback Anhelina offered.’ ‘Anhelina’s preparation for... More
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Read Alum Nancy Oakley's (MA/12) blog: A Hopeful Future for 24 Sussex Carleton University recently held a public debate about the future of 24 Sussex. Formerly the home of an Ottawa Valley lumber baron and now the long-time official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada, this historic place has remained vacant for several... More
Friday, February 16, 2024
2024 Speaker Series: Populations Rendered 'Surplus' in Canada The Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University is pleased to announce the upcoming talk, the second of this year's speaker series, featuring Alum Christopher DesRivières (M.A., GCS, LEED GA). Follow this link for further details. Tuesday, February 27th @ 12... More
Thursday, February 15, 2024
The 16th Annual Graduate Student Heritage Conservation Symposium entitled towards reparative futures: heritage conservation paradigms for social justice is being held on April 27th. The symposium seeks submissions from graduate students, community activists, professionals, and academics involved with heritage conservation and related fields.... More
Thursday, February 1, 2024
John will be graduating in the Winter session after successfully completing his PhD. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. Congratulations,... More
Sunday, January 14, 2024
On January 11th, Canadian Studies MA student Kaitlan Brazeau successfully defended her MA thesis entitled: Storytelling through Song: Fawn Wood and Laela Gilday Raising Awareness of Contemporary Issues Affecting Indigenous Peoples. Congratulations... More
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
The 2024 School of Canadian Studies Graduate Symposium invites you to think about your relations to Canada. Do you see your work within, in conjunction with or in contention with Canada? Canada Studies is an evolving and interdisciplinary field that abounds with areas of scholarly inquiry. We are interested in expanding understandings and... More
Monday, January 8, 2024
Gale Franklin, PhD candidate, will be presenting on "Listening to Whiteness: Race, Space and Belonging on Parliament Hill" From January 22nd to February 23rd, 2022, the so-called “Freedom Convoy” took up occupation of Ottawa. Drawing on testimony from the Ottawa People’s Commission inquiry into the occupation, this talk explores how sounded... More
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
John Carlson has successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Empowering Indigenous Self-Determination In-Against-and-Beyond Capitalism: A Theory of Dual Dispossession." The dissertation was supervised by Professor Julie Tomiak. Congratulations,... More
MA student Gyn Wylie has completed a Major Research Paper entitled "Displaced Heritage: Place Attachment, the Loss of Land, and the Effects on Community Identity." Adopting a 'heritage from below' approach, the project examines community perspectives on heritage after the mid-twentieth century construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, which... More
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Mark your Calendars! We have 3 speakers in our Research Talks lined up for next term All Talks are held in DT 1216 from 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Wed Jan 24th Gale Franklin, PhD Candidate in Canadian Studies "Listening to Whiteness: Race, Space and Belonging on Parliament Wed Feb 27th Dr. Anne Trépanier... More
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
During their final class of the fall term, our cohort of first year MA students showed how very diverse and deeply interesting research proposals can be in the School of Canadian Studies, a School engaged in redefining Canada as an object of critical research. Students clearly gave much careful thought to their projects,... More
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