Drawing Lessons from the French Revolution

Dr. Rod Phillips of the Department of History teamed up with Ottawa-based designer and artist Jordana Globerman to graphically record one of his lectures for his course HIST 3113 (The French Revolution: 1789-1799).

From the long-running West End musical Les Misérables to Sofia Coppola's lush 2006 film Marie Antoinette, visual retellings of the French Revolution have a history of captivating and fascinating the human mind.

In telling his students about this turbulent period of radical social and political change in eighteenth-century France, Professor Phillips decided to try putting a new visual spin on his own teaching style.

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Watch the 2022 Marston LaFrance Lecture

The 2022 Marston LaFrance lecture, Making History Visible: Black Lives Under Nazism in Literature and Art, was a resounding success enjoyed by a large and enthusiastic virtual audience.

Presented by 2021-2022 Marston LaFrance Fellow Dr. Sarah Phillips Casteel (Department of English Language and Literature, cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture), the talk drew attention to a largely unrecognized artistic corpus that challenges the erasure of Black wartime history.

The literature and visual art Dr. Casteel discussed illustrated the relationship between art-making and survival and the role of creative expression in the formation of collective memory.

Watch the recording >

Play for Ukraine

When: Thursday, April 28 at 7:00 PM (EST) in-person and livestreamed

Ottawa Chamberfest is proud to team up with Carleton University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Ottawa Branch, for a concert in support of the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Humanitarian Appeal.

The Gryphon Trio joins Chamberfest Artistic Director Carissa Klopoushak and others in a program celebrating Ukrainian music and culture, featuring Ukrainian chamber music, choral music, folk singing, and poetry.

In place of an admission fee, we are collecting donations for the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Humanitarian Appeal. 

Details and registration >

Virtual Tour of the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

Take a virtual tour of the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC), the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ arts, performance and learning centre in downtown Ottawa.

CDCC is celebrating their third anniversary month with plans for a safe full re-opening for events in May. Stay tuned for more details.

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Anti-Black Racism, Gender, and Class: Through the Arts

When: Thursday, April 14 at 7:00 PM EST on Zoom

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, in partnership with the Ottawa Catholic School Board and Carleton's Student Experience Office, presents Anti-Black Racism, Gender, and Class: Through the Arts.

This event includes a presentation by Just Jamaal the Poet (Ottawa's Poet Laureate), two online plays written by students in Instructor Sarah George's SOCI 3220 (in partnership with OCSB high school students) and an audience question and answer period.

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 Kinàmàgawin Indigenous Learning Certificate

Summer registration is currently open for the Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement's Kinàmàgawin Indigenous Learning Certificate.

The certificate is a four-part series that discusses anti-Indigenous racism in Canada, institutional anti-Indigenous racism and education, Indigenous student experiences and the Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement, and practicing allyship and righting relations.

There are several cohort dates and times. To register for the certificate, please head to the "Learning & Professional Development" section on Carleton Central.

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Ottawa Ukrainian Mental Health

Ottawa Ukrainian Mental Health offers support groups and counselling in Ukrainian, Russian and English languages. Led by Ukrainian therapists, counsellors and community volunteers, they focus on the promotion of mental health and wellbeing.

Ottawa Ukrainian Mental Health holds free weekly support groups for those affected by the war in Ukraine and is open to both Carleton students and the general public. 

Get in touch with them at: ottawaukrainianmh@gmail.com

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Noons for Now

Hosted by the Carleton Climate Commons, Noons for Now is a weekly teach-in to discuss climate change related issues.

Upcoming teach-ins are scheduled online from 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST and include:

• April 21: Student Climate Activism with Climate Action Carleton
• April 28: Open Discussion

Everyone is welcome!

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FASS Research Bulletin Board

Keep up on the latest research news from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences by heading over to our monthly FASS Research Bulletin Board.

Are you a FASS researcher with a new publication, paper, or research-related project to share? Let us know by submitting to the FASS Research Bulletin Board, an initiative aimed at promoting research within FASS and throughout the broader Carleton community.

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