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MARCH 17th, 2022
FASS Faculty Discuss SSHRC-Funded Research
Cross-faculty collaborators Dr. Amrita Hari (Women’s and Gender Studies) and Dr. Luciara Nardon (Sprott School of Business) spoke to FASS about their SSHRC-funded research investigating the challenges faced by highly skilled women immigrants as they attempt to enter and integrate into the Canadian labour market.
“Many skilled migrants undergo deskilling, downward career mobility, underemployment, unemployment, and talent waste, finding themselves in low-skilled occupations that are not commensurate to their education and experience,” Drs. Hari and Nardon explain.
“Skilled immigrant women face additional gendered disadvantages, including a disproportionate domestic burden, interrupted careers, and gender segmentation in occupations and organizations.”
Complicating Trans Representation: Upcoming Events
Photo credit: Bud Kibby, TINYuproar
A distinguished cultural theorist of transgender/ queer media and literature, Dr. Cáel M. Keegan’s experience as a trans researcher had been something of an individual pursuit—until he came to Carleton.
An Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Grand Valley State University, Keegan is the 2021-22 Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University.
Keegan joined the School for Studies in Art and Culture, where he now works as an affiliated faculty member at the Transgender Media Lab, offering students his expertise and a critical trans studies perspective to help enrich their modeling of trans-centered (vs. trans "inclusive") digital platforms.
Join Dr. Keegan for:
• "Bad trans objects," March 17 at 5:00 PM EST
• “Informal Graduate Student Workshop: Is Trans Representable?” March 25 at 3:00 PM EST
Putting Race at the Forefront of Conversation
As a critical race scholar and activist whose work centres around the lived experience of Canada’s racialized and Indigenous girls and women, Dr. Manjeet Birk (Women’s and Gender Studies) is looking for new ways to make the world more just and systems more equitable.
“If I can teach my students about injustice and then support them to tangibly think through creative solutions that can disrupt day-to-day work, they can build a better Canada,” Dr. Birk explains. “This can look differently based on who you are and where you come from.”
2021-2022 Munro Beattie Lecture
When: Saturday, March 26 at 7:00 PM EST on Zoom
The Dean of FASS and the Department of English invite you to attend the 2021-2022 Munro Beattie Lecture, "An Evening with Hannah Moscovitch."
In conversation with Dr. Janne Cleveland (Drama Studies program in the Department of English), Hannah Moscovitch will speak about her life in theatre, her receipt of the Governor General's Award for English-Language Drama for her play Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, what it's like to write for television, and how the pandemic has affected being a working artist.
After the conversation, there will be a Q&A where the audience can ask questions.
2022 Marston LaFrance Lecture
When: Wednesday, March 23 at 3:00 PM EST on Zoom
Join Dr. Sarah Phillips Casteel for the 2022 Marston LaFrance Lecture, “Making History Visible: Black Lives Under Nazism in Literature and Art.”
This talk draws attention to a largely unrecognized artistic corpus that challenges the erasure of Black wartime history. The literature and visual art Dr. Casteel will discuss illuminate the relationship between art-making and survival and the role of creative expression in the formation of collective memory.
Dr. Casteel is a Professor in the 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.
2022 Shirley Thomson Memorial Lecture
When: Wednesday, March 23 at 6:00 PM EST in-person and on Zoom
The School for Studies in Art and Culture invite you to the 2022 Shirley Thomson Memorial Lecture with Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University Research Chair in Circumpolar Arts and the Lead Guest Curator of INUA: Inuit Nunangat Ungammuaktut Atautikkut | Inuit Moving Forward Together.
In this presentation, Dr. Igloliorte explores the innovations and continuities manifested by the curatorial team and a host of other Inuit interlocuters who worked on the project, who collectively work towards the articulation of a new, self-determined future for Inuit exhibition practices.
This is an in-person event with a concurrent live stream.
Recent 2021-22 CUELF Recipients
Three projects led by FASS faculty have been awarded funding in the second round of the 2021-22 Carleton University Experiential Learning Fund (CUELF).
Dr. Manjeet Birk (Women’s and Gender Studies) is integrating arts-based experiential learning opportunities in her course on anti-racist pedagogies through the purchase of a pottery kiln and other creative supplies.
Dr. Jennifer Gilbert and colleagues Beth Hughes, Al Blunt, Petra Watzlawik-li, Rachelle Thibodeau, and Susan Burhoe at the Centre for Initiatives in Education are establishing an annual student conference for students in the Enriched Support Program.
Dr. Ian Wereley (History) is creating a digital “Choose your own adventure”-style field trip to the Canadian Science and Technology Museum for students in his course on the history of oil.
Liberal Arts Educations and Tech Sector Careers
Three Bachelor of Humanities alumni returned to campus to talk to current students about opportunities in the tech industry post-graduation.
The panelists were Amanda Hadi (BHum '10), a senior talent scout at Shopify, and Ian Hartlen (BHum '10), a senior operations specialist at Shopify. The panel was moderated by Douglas Soltys (BHum '17), the founder and editor-in-chief of BetaKit.
The three said they hoped to empower current students to embrace the exceptional skills the Bachelor of Humanities program teaches them.
CUAG’s “Disruptions” Dialogue with Dr. Jody Cripps
When: Tuesday, March 22 at 6:00 PM EST on Zoom
The Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) invites you to join a talk and creative exercises by the ethnomusicologist Dr. Jody Cripps, Assistant Professor of American Sign Language in the Department of Languages at Clemson University in South Carolina.
This is the eighth event in CUAG’s “Disruptions: Dialogues on Disability Art” series, curated by Michael Orsini to generate dialogue about contemporary art as a force for challenging ableism.
Philosophy Colloquium with Dr. Dale Turner
When: Friday, March 25 at 1:00 PM EST on Zoom
Join the Department of Philosophy for their final colloquium this winter term, “Words are Deeds”: Indigenous Spirituality and Visions of Reconciliation with Dr. Dale Turner from the University of Toronto.
Indigenous traditionalists claim that their relationships to their homelands are spiritual in nature. In this reflective talk, Dr. Turner will explore what Indigenous peoples mean when they make this claim in the context of the contemporary legal and political relationship with the Canadian state.
French Course in Quebec City
The Department of French is pleased to present the summer course, FREN 4300/5501 Séminaire d’été à Québec, open to students in 3rd year and up with a strong interest in literature, narratives, historiography, and philosophy of history.
This course includes a field trip to Quebec City. Students need to be proficient in French (minimum level: intermediate) and have relevant experience in a literature/cultural analysis course.
To reserve your place, send a short cover letter (100-150 words) to anne.trepanier@carleton.ca by April 1, 2022.
MeWeRTH: Lived Experience Luncheon Series
The Mental Health and Well-being Research and Training Hub (MeWeRTH) launched a virtual initiative, the Lived Experience Luncheon series, where members in the community present on their lived experience, highlighting challenges they encountered and their resiliency in facing these challenges.
Upcoming virtual presentations are scheduled from 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST:
• March 30 - Gillian Stein presents "Mental Health Issues Affect Us All… Even CEOs"
Board of Governors Awards
The Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Community Achievement recognizes the community contribution and volunteerism of a Carleton student graduating in 2022. In line with the Board’s belief in creating civically engaged citizens through higher education, the award recipient will also receive a $2,000 grant.
Nominations are welcome from all community members. The deadline to apply is March 25, 2022.
The Board of Governors has also issued its 2022 Call for Nominations for the Founders Award, Carleton’s highest non-academic honour. Do you know someone deserving?
Nominations are being accepted until March 25, 2022.
Student EDI Research Award
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) is now accepting student applications for the Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Research Award, which provides student funding of $10,000 to $15,000 for an EDI-informed research opportunity supervised by a faculty member.
One graduate student award and up to five undergraduate student awards are available for this summer (May 1 to August 30, 2022).
Applications are due April 8, 2022, at 5:00 PM EST. The application package includes a letter of support from a faculty member indicating their willingness to supervise the project.
FASS Research Bulletin Board
Keep up on the latest research news from faculty and students in 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.
FASS Kindness Campaign
Did your TA go above and beyond to make tutorials engaging? Was your classmate the ultimate study buddy as you prepped for midterms together? Is one of your colleagues quick to lend a helping hand when things get hectic? Is there a FASS professor or a course that changed the way you think about the world, for the better?
Join us in cultivating kindness in the FASS Community by sharing an appreciative anonymous note dedicated to someone — a student, staff or faculty member, family or friend, partner or pet — who you'd like to thank or give kudos to this semester.
The FASS Framework
We have launched a new initiative to help guide prospective and current students on their academic journeys in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
The FASS Framework reflects the foundational cross-disciplinary areas of interest explored at FASS that get to the heart of what our community of students, researchers, educators, and administrators care about most.
The four "frames" that make up the FASS Framework are: Identities and Social Justice, Mental Health and the Mind, Sustainable Futures, and the Power of Creative Expression.
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