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Friday, January 24, 2014
Carleton’s Pickering Centre for Research in Human Development is a shining example of how using an older endowment can benefit the students and faculty of today…Read... More
Monday, December 2, 2013
Janet Tamalik McGrath was educated in the Arctic and then worked as a translator…Read... More
Monday, September 9, 2013
The 2013 FEL Conference (The Seventeenth Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages) will be held October 1 – 4, 2013 at Carleton University, in Ottawa, the capital of Canada and headquarters of the country’s national Aboriginal organizations. “This conference is all about connections and building collaborations , locally... More
Monday, June 24, 2013
Congratulations to Dr. David Wood for being one of eight recipients of the 2013 FASS Junior Research Award, for his project, "An Idiodynamic Investigation of the Relationship between Willingness to Communicate and Speech Fluency in a Second Language". ... More
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Carleton University is pleased to announce a new collaborative MA in Digital Humanities. The program is designed to add value to existing degree programs by offering courses focused on the rapidly growing field of digital humanities. Applicants must already be enrolled in one of the participating MA programs and, upon completion of their... More
Monday, March 18, 2013
Please mark your calendars for the Grand Opening of the SLaLS Language Centre, Friday, April 5, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. The opening will take place on the third floor of St. Pat’s, in various rooms of the new Language Centre. There will be food and a cash bar, as well as video demonstrations from... More
Monday, March 4, 2013
Thomas G. Bever, Regent’s Professor of Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Education at the University of Arizona Tucson, will be at Carleton University Mon. March 11-Thurs. March 14, 2013 as part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science’s Distinguished Visitor Program. Dr. Bever is one of the world’s leading... More
Monday, October 29, 2012
According to new data from Statistics Canada, schools play a prominent role in keeping Indigenous languages alive. Randall Gess recently explained to APTN how Carleton University’s School of Linguistics and Language Studies helps to preserve these languages – languages that face a real danger of being lost.... More
Monday, October 15, 2012
2012 FASS Distinguished Visitor, Departmental Lecture Communicating Europe: “Hegemonic Multilingualism / National Monolingualism?” Integrating Sociolinguistics, Language Policy Research and (Critical) Discourse Studies Ruth Wodak, Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies, Lancaster University Friday, October 26, 2012, 12:00 p.m. Southam... More
Monday, September 24, 2012
A new virtual campus environment has recently been unveiled at Carleton University. It has been developed by Carleton faculty members and students across several faculties, in conjunction with local tech firm Avaya. Carleton students and professors... More
Friday, August 24, 2012
Huddled around a campfire, you attentively discuss last week’s reading with your classmates and your professor. If the discussion wasn’t so captivating, the glossy green laurel surrounding the camp would almost be distracting. As your professor wraps up this week’s discussion, you say goodbye to your classmates... More
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 26-29, 2012 Genre 2012 will continue the tradition and scholarly conversation that originated with the first international colloquium on Genre Studies, “Rethinking Genre,” organized by now-retired Carleton Professors Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway, which was held at Carleton University... More
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