Meet Carleton alumni at one of two panel discussions: Using Your BA in Business on Mar.1 and What Can I Do With My BA on Mar.27. Find out how these BA grads found success in the real world.

 Or, register for any of these workshops: Marketing Your BA on Mar.6 and Resumé Review for BA Students on Mar.8.

 For a complete list of all Campus2Career events, visit www.carleton.ca/c2c

Matt Prowse

Matt Prowse has spent his undergrad years working to improve his fellow students’ experience at Carleton. This year, he’s decided to put his money where his mouth is – literally. Prowse has donated $1000 of his hard earned cash to be awarded to another undergraduate student as part of theInnovative Idea Essay Competition. 

“At its core, the essay competition represents a financial incentive for students to take an active role in improving the Carleton environment that they engage in everyday of their post-secondary careers,” said Prowse, who will complete his BA Honours in History this year.

The essay competition provides students with an opportunity to present an original idea in a four to five page essay for how they would improve the Carleton University student experience.  The suggestions can be broad or specific, but they must be unique and practical. The student who submits the winning entry will be awarded a cash prize of $1000.

“The money seemed an adequate amount that would not only inspire those to enter with vigor and excitement but also an award large enough to ensure a high number of quality responses,” said Prowse. “Everyone sees those awards where they expect far more, for far less, and I just didn’t want that.

Prowse worked hard to earn enough the money he has donated.  In addition to his studies, he is also a reservist of the Canadian Forces, a research assistant at Agriculture Canada, and works as a CU Host for the Student Experience Office (SEO).

His idea for the competition came out of his earlier work as an SEO peer helper.  The first of his family to go to university, Prowse believes in the importance of providing opportunities to others.  He is literally “paying it forward.”

For more information including the complete criteria and deadlines for the Innovative Idea Essay Competition visit  http://carleton.ca/seo/innovative-idea-essay-competition-and-award/

Department of Psychology – Get Psyched to Run
Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011 at 9 am
Start Location: Athletics building, Carleton University
Cost: $10 for students, $20 for non-students (proceeds to be donated to the United Way)
Deadline to register: Wednesday, Sept. 21
Contact: carleton.ca/psychology/ at psychchair@carleton.ca or (613) 520-2648

Department of History – Carleton University History Undergraduate Society (HUgS) Lecture
Topic:” ‘The Game is Afoot!’ Archaeology, Cultural Heitage & Gamification”
Shawn Graham, RPA, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of History
Friday, 23 September 2011, at 6:30pm
Dunton Tower (DT) 2017

College of the Humanities – Carleton Center for the Study of Islam’s public lecture
Lecture:  “Religion in the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi”
Professor Dick Davis, Ohio State University
Friday, October 7th, 2011: 6:00 pm
The College of the Humanities Lecture Hall (Paterson 303)

Graham, BA/11, is continuing her examination of genres in English literature.  While working toward her BA, Graham studied “sensation fiction” a subgenre that arose within Victorian Gothic literature between 1860 and 1880. 

Unlike most Gothic novels, Graham says, sensation fiction was set within the then contemporary British society, and so was also known as domestic Gothic.   “At first the term was used by critics to refer to a wide range of novels, including crime, mystery and horror novels.”

As the genre matured, it came to be defined by the sensations it evoked in its readers – emotions that ranged from horror to arousal.

Casting forward a century, Graham will now focus on a more contemporary form of horror. 

“I am particularly interested in human rights literature and poetry of witness – literature which bears witness to atrocity and trauma from the perspectives of marginalized and oppressed peoples,” Graham explains.

Last winter, Graham took professor Carr-Vellino’s Poetry of Witness course.  Within the subject material, Graham saw a parallel between the audiences – women and the working classes for gothic fiction and how these were viewed by cultural elites and the notion of subversion in contemporary literature.

The literary works she will study span continents, conflicts and peoples.  These will include North American, South African, Chinese and feminist literatures.

Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies
Book Launch: The Bible Now – Professor Shawna Dolansky
Introduction by Dr. Aviva Freedman
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 1:00pm
Soloway Jewish Community Centre – 21 Nadolny Sachs Private
http://carleton.ca/jewishstudies/upcoming-events/book-launch-the-bible-now-shawna-dolansky
(Presented in partnership with Soloway Jewish Community Centre and Oxford University Press)

College of the Humanities
Topic:  Spartacus: Myth and History
Speaker: Barry Strauss, Professor of History and Classics at Cornell University
Thursday, Sept. 22,  2011 from 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Paterson Hall 303
For more information: http://carleton.ca/chum/2011/spartacus-myth-and-history

Department of Psychology – Get Psyched to Run
Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011 at 9 am
Start Location: Athletics building, Carleton University
Cost: $10 for students, $20 for non-students (proceeds to be donated to the United Way)
Deadline to register: Wednesday, Sept. 21
Contact: carleton.ca/psychology/ at psychchair@carleton.ca or (613) 520-2648

Shelley Hartman

Shelley Hartman, entering her fourth year in Greek and Roman Studies was not to be deterred from participating on an archeological dig in the Arctic. Not even the requirement of a firearms permit hindered her.

This summer, Dr. Pat Sutherland, the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s curator for the Eastern Arctic led a team of seven on two sites in Cape Tanfield in the Hudson Strait.

“The area shows occupation by Dorset, Thule and Norse, dating from roughly the same time as the Greenland homesteads and L’Anse Aux Meadows, AD 900-1000,” said Hartman of the site which is thought to have been a trading centre for the region.  “The artifacts include native tools made of chert, slate and quartz crystal, skins and hair, and Norse artifacts.” Among the latter were a variety of tools used for counting, weaving, sharpening and weighing.

In addition to toiling in trenches illuminated by near 24 hour daylight, Hartman spent five weeks eating freeze-dried food and clothed in the same outfit. 

“We slept in tents surrounded by a bear fence, had a latrine, no showers  – just an arctic pond,” said Hartman.

So great was the risk of attacks by polar bears, it was necessary for each participant to have a gun permit, and for a bear monitor to be employed to keep watch over the group.

Left to Right: Moses, Shelley, Ikkid

When warned by Dr. Sutherland that the dig would be grueling work, Hartman said she replied “this sounds like the scariest thing I have ever thought of doing… I’m in!” It turned out to be a once in a life time opportunity.

Carleton University Art Gallery
Join us for a reception celebrating the opening of two new exhibitions: “Leslie Reid: A Darkening Vision” and “Parr and Luke Anguhadluq: Drawing from Life.”
St. Patrick’s Building, Carleton University
Monday, 12 September 2011
5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome! Leslie Reid will be present at the opening.
For more information: cuag.carleton.ca

SSAC (Music)
Music for Two Pianos
Steve Boudreau and Brian Friedland
Sunday, May 8, 2011 from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.,
Studio A (A900), Loeb Building
Tickets (at the door): $10 ($5 students)

Carleton University Art Gallery opens three new summer exhibitions: Patriot Loves: Visions of Canada in the Feminine; Rita Letendre: Themes and Variations; and Against the Grain: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the University of Alberta Art Collection
Monday, 9 May 2011, 5 – 7:30 p.m.
Carleton University Art Gallery, St. Patrick’s Building
Admission is free and everyone is welcome!
For more information: cuag.carleton.ca

Imagine combining the musical stylings of Wilco, Radiohead, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, and you have just imagined the sound of Kalle Mattson.

Out of Sault Ste. Marie, Kalle Mattson is the musical embodiment of Kalle Wainio and three band mates who released their first record Whisper Bee in 2009. That album was twice nominated for the Northern Ontario Music Award.

Recently relocated to Ottawa, the band is back with their second album Anchors.  Wainio, a third-year music student, and his band mates spent their summer break last year in the studio recording with Howie Beck.

“I write every song in the band, although there are sometimes co-writes, and am the primary singer,” said Wainio. “The words and majority of the music are written by me beforehand and brought to the band, and then it becomes a whole new thing.”

If pressed for one genre as a primary influence, Wainio says it would be folk music, although as the band works though each song other sounds reminiscent of indi-rock and country emerge.

While there isn’t a direct connection between Kalle Mattson and Wainio’s music studies, his compositions are impacted as he acquires more knowledge and a greater appreciation for different styles of music.

“The Carleton music program has created an extremely supportive environment where all things Kalle Mattson are encouraged, I don’t think you’ll be able to find that commitment to all genres of music in any other university program.”

Once he completed his BMusic, Wainio plans to make the band a full-time priority.  In the interim, fans can download singles at http://www.kallemattson.com