FASS EVENTS

Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG)
Artist’s talk by Justin Wonnacott in conjunction with his current exhibition “I Remember and I Forget.” Wednesday, 29 September 2010, at 7:00 p.m. 
CUAG, St. Patrick’s Building
Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Department of Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium Series
Topic: John Porter: Life, Times and Scholarship: an Overview of Measuring the Mosaic
Speaker: Dr. Rick Helmes-Hayes
Thursday, September 30, 2010, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
A720 Loeb Building
Reception to follow
Contact:  Frances_slaney@carleton.ca

Institute of African Studies and the Nigeria High Commission – Symposium
Topic: Nigeria at 50 – Challenges and Prospects
Moderator: Prof. Blair Rutherford, Institute of African Studies
Speakers: John Yima Sen, former presidential advisor & writer, Jos, Nigeria; Benedicta Egbo, University of Windsor; Pius Adesanmi, Carleton University;  Majekodunmi Adega, barrister & solicitor
September 30, 2010 at 3.30 p.m.
DT 2017

Department of Psychology Colloquium Series
Event: Lusty Ladies or Victorian Victims? Perspectives on Women, Madness, and Sexuality.
A play presented by Dr. Alexandra Rutherford and Dr. Wade Pickren, along with Graduate Students in the History and Theory Program in Psychology, from York University.
Thursday September 30 at 2:30 pm
Tory Building Room 360

Department of History – 2010 Shannon Lectures Series: “Storytelling, Storytellers, and the Social Effects of Stories”
Title: “Ferocious Beasts and Miraculous Escapes: Telling Stories in the North American Fur Trade”
Speaker:  Carolyn Podruchny, History, York University
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 1.30 pm
The Humanities Theatre (PA 303).  
A reception will follow.
For more information, visit http://carleton.ca/shannonlectureseries/.

Friends of Arts History Society
Speaker: Khalia Scott, Director, School of the Photographic Arts, and President, Festival X
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 2:30 p.m.
412 St. Patrick’s Bldg

Department of English – CORAL speaker series
Topic: “Shelley on the Assembly Line”
Speaker:  Paul Keen, Department of English
Friday, October 1, at 2:30 pm, 
Dunton Tower 1811
School of Canadian Studies – Conference: “Just watch me!” 40th Anniversary of the October Crises and War Measures Act in Canada
Reception and conference opening
Screening of: Action: the October crisis of 1970
A film by Robin Spry (English, 1973)
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A film by Robert Lepage (English Subtitles, 1998)
Thursday, October 14, 2010 beginning at 6 p.m.
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street

Conference with keynote speakers
Dominique Clement, author of Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change 1937-82
Sean Mills, author of Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal
Friday, October 15, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
1212 Dunton Tower
For more information: www2.carleton.ca/canadianstudies/news