There are no upcoming events scheduled at this time. Thursday, January 14, 2021Program Spotlight on Canadian StudiesCheck out this Program Spotlight on YouTube with Professor Catherine Khordoc and Nicholas Zuger!... MoreTuesday, January 12, 2021Healthy Cities Lecture – with Julie Tomiak as one of four panelists"What defines a healthy city?" Join the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for a series of expert panels to explore the many factors – from nature and housing to climate and art – that make a healthy city. Upcoming Panel: #JustCityOtt - Imagining a Just City What needs changing, reimagining, unsettling and remaking... MoreThursday, December 10, 2020Summer 2021 Contract Instructor OpportunityPlease see our Ad for details on a Contract Instructor opportunity for Summer... MoreFriday, November 20, 2020Indigenous Studies Endowment FundWe are pleased to announce that an endowment is being established to provide recognition to an outstanding Indigenous undergraduate student in an Indigenous Studies program through the creation of an annual scholarship. Special consideration will be given to a student from an Algonquin Anishinabeg community or the urban Indigenous community(ies)... MoreTuesday, November 17, 2020Virtual Grad Open House and Q/A Session-Nov 24Interested in doing a graduate degree? Join us for an Information Session on MA and Ph.D. programs in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies! This will be followed by Q/A session with Faculty and current graduate students. Registration is required and limited. Register Now! Details and... MoreThursday, November 12, 2020Join us for our Second Annual Kétéskwēw lecture in Indigenous Studies on Nov 19Please join us for our Second Annual Kétéskwēw lecture in Indigenous Studies! Event Poster TITLE: Becoming Two Again: Truth, Reconciliation, and Re-imagining the R-Word WHEN: Webinar -- November 19---7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. WHO: Our Guest of Honour is Dr. Marie Wilson, a Commissioner of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada... MoreMonday, October 19, 2020Catherine Khordoc’s articleCatherine Khordoc's 2019 article " Worlded Literature in Quebec : Wajdi Mouawad’s Le Sang des promesses Cycle" was voted BEST ARTICLE in the Canadian Studies Journal (issue 53 published in Fall 2019). Congratulations... MoreWednesday, September 16, 2020New Minor in Québec StudiesProfessors Anne Trépanier (Indigenous and Canadian Studies and French ) and Catherine Khordoc (French and Indigenous and Canadian Studies) are the architects of Carleton's new Québec Studies Minor available to students beginning this term, Fall 2020. The Minor will be based out of both the Department of French and the School of Indigenous and... MoreMonday, August 17, 2020Indigenous Studies tenure-stream positionThe School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies invites applications from qualified candidates for a tenure-track appointment in Indigenous Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2021. The competition will remain open until filled. The School will start reviewing applications October 15, 2020 and it will continue reviewing them... MoreFriday, June 12, 2020Capstone Seminar SeriesFollow this URL to newly released material in the annual peer-reviewed journal from young canadianists in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University. The 2020 edition tackles tensions in Canadian identity... MoreThursday, June 4, 2020Fall 2020-Winter 2021 Course Offerings Announced!Watch this space for our course offerings for the 20-21 academic year. All courses for Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 will be delivered... MoreFriday, February 28, 2020New Publications on Waste Heritage Research – Susan RossIn her November 2019 "SICS Talk", professor Susan Ross read excerpts from a paper manuscript that has now been published: Susan M. Ross. 2020. “Re-evaluating Heritage Waste: Sustaining Material Values through Deconstruction and Reuse” The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The special issue on “Heritage and... MoreFriday, February 28, 2020Alumni in the NewsDanceWorks presents Propeller’s Flesh & Spokes and Spasticus Broadway World, February 20, 2020 DANCEWORKS presents PROPELLER DANCE's double bill of FLESH & SPOKES and SPASTICUS. This production is presented by Ottawa-based disability arts/integrated dance company PROPELLER DANCE and was created and choreographed by Renata Soutter and Liz... MoreThursday, February 20, 2020High School Essay Contest WinnersWe would like to thank all those who entered our Essay Contest. We received an overwhelming number of entries! Here are the winners from our inaugural 2019 Contest: First Place went to Kaitlynn Lewis who wrote an insightful essay on Canadians' self-perception entitled "Out, damned spot!" Kaitlynn Lewis is a grade 12 student with... MoreMonday, September 23, 2019SICS sponsoring the 2019 Shannon Lectures in HistoryEntitled New Vehicles for Old Stories: Canadian Mining History in a True Crime frame the 2019 series is co-ordinated the Charlotte Gray. The series runs for five consecutive Fridays beginning October 4th at 1:oo in DT... MoreTuesday, September 10, 2019New Release from Richard NimijeanElection 2019: It’s 2015 all over again. Or is that 2004? The Trudeau government, far from distancing itself from the Harper legacy, has in many ways continued and reinforced it. Read more... MoreThursday, August 29, 2019Join us for our Inaugural Kétēskwēw Lecture in Indigenous StudiesEntitled Lovelorn Ancients but for Workworn Antiquities, this inaugural event features the woman after whom the lecture is named, Madeleine Kétēskwēw Dion Stout. When: September 26, 2019 Reception begins at 1800 with the lecture and Q & A to follow Where: Richcraft Hall Conference Rooms, 2nd Floor RSVP to Donna Malone by September 13.... MoreWednesday, August 7, 2019Richard Nimijean co-authored article in The Hill TimesParties competing over values, not substance, in foreign policy platforms Co-authored with David Carment, this article explores how foreign policy discussions are expected to play a big role in the 2019 federal election. The question is, "...who's foreign policy will it be?"... MoreMonday, July 29, 2019New Publication from Jatinder MannJatinder Mann, Assistant Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University, recently published Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. See links below for details. Mann_endorsements... MoreThursday, July 11, 2019Sample Newsletter Post... MoreWednesday, July 10, 2019iPOLITICS article co-authored by Richard NimijeanThis recently published article is entitled: Trudeau’s precarious hold on the Liberal foreign policy agenda Read the full... MoreThursday, July 4, 2019SICS alum featured in CBC’s ‘Canadian Writers to Watch in 2019’Ben Ladouceur (MA/12) is featured in CBC's recently published listing of 19 Canadian Writers to Watch in 2019. Read how he's making his mark on the Canadian literary scene. ... MoreTuesday, July 2, 2019SICS Alumni hired as Manager of Indigenous Relations and Inclusion in Thunder BayRegina Mandamin (B'06) was recently hired by the City of Thunder Bay as Manager of Indigenous Relations and Inclusion. Her responsibilities will include facilitation of the development of a city-wide Anti-Racism Resource Guide for local organizations in collaboration with the Accord member organizations, and lead a review of the Corporation’s... MoreFriday, June 28, 20192019 SoTL Grant RecipientCongratulations to Sophie Tamas, a 2019 SoTL Grant Recipient!! Sophie received $4,800 for her project Imposter syndrome: The impact of academic (In)security. This grant provides funding for Carleton’s instructors to engage in scholarly investigations of all aspects of teaching and... MoreMonday, June 17, 2019Spring Convocation 2019A few memories from Friday June 14th ceremony:... MoreThursday, May 30, 2019Fall/Winter 2019-20 coursesFull year FSYM courses: FYSM 1600 -- Contemporary Controversies in Canadian Society Students will explore a broad range of social issues affecting Canadians today. Using an interdisciplinary lens, this course will analyze how these issues are connected to larger global systems and to world histories. Topics may include nationalism, race, language... MoreThursday, May 30, 2019High school students: Win $500 by writing an essay on one of these questions!... MoreThursday, May 16, 2019Zoe Todd receives funding from the New Frontier Research FundThree Carleton University early career researchers received support today from the federal government’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) to pursue multidisciplinary projects in the diverse fields of language and computer programming, telling stories about endangered species, and energy-efficient buildings. Each project is receiving up to... MoreMonday, April 29, 20192019 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and LearningCongratulations to our own Anne Trepanier on receiving a prestigious D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), in partnership with D2L, presented five outstanding post-secondary educators with the 2019 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. Selected from an... MoreThursday, April 4, 2019Nationhood in ActionListuguj, a Mi’gmaw community in Gespe’gewa’gi (present-day Gaspe Penninsula of Quebec) hosted a mawiomi (gathering) ‘Honouring our Land’ as part of nation (re)building on March 21-23. Approximately two hundred people took part in this gathering, including elected leaders, hereditary leadership from the Mi’gmaq Grand Council, Elders,... MoreThursday, March 14, 2019Summer 2019 Course OfferingsEarly Summer : May 6 - June 18 Tuesday & Thursday 1805-2055 CDNS 2600 Branding Canada: This interdisciplinary course examines a wide range of material to explore the theoretical connections between the creation of national identity, state branding strategies, and the implications for democracy in Canada. In particular, it examines... MoreFriday, March 1, 2019Service Excellence AwardCongratulations to Kahente and the entire team responsible for the Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles! They won the 2018 Service Excellence in the Innovation... MoreThursday, February 7, 20192019 Teaching Achievement AwardCongratulations to our own Kahente Horn-Miller for receiving a Teaching Award for her Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles. Read more Congratulations,... MoreMonday, February 4, 2019Respectful Relationships in ActionJoin Shawn Wilson, Director of Research at Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian peoples as he explores Respectful Relationships in Action. When: Wednesday Feb 6 at 2:30 p.m. Where: DT... MoreWednesday, January 30, 2019Canada, Nation Branding and Domestic PoliticsWith an expected April publication date, this new book, co-edited by Richard Nimijean, highlights issues in the relationship between articulated visions of Canada as a global actor, nation branding and domestic politics, noting the dangers of the politicization of the branding of Canada. Has the Trudeau government lived up to its claim that... MoreLoad More →