DOUBLE MAJOR / September Edition: Lost Ottawa (David McGee) + Procrastination (Tim Pychyl)

Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 7:00 p.m.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome!

Carleton University Art Gallery

cuag.carleton.ca

Discount parking passes ($4.00 flat rate) will be available for sale from 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. See the “visiting” page of CUAG’s website for details.

DOUBLE MAJOR is back! Join us for the first installment of the 2013/14 season, where we’ll hear from two passionate experts, each speaking for 20 minutes about their subject, after which there will be a Q&A addressing both topics. One speaker is from the Ottawa-Gatineau community and one is from the Carleton community. DOUBLE MAJOR is a fun and friendly way to stimulate discussion of seemingly disparate topics, and to make new connections between people and ideas. Props encouraged!

DOUBLE MAJOR is brought to you by Carleton University Art Gallery and the Carleton University Alumni Association.

David McGee is a one of the two architects of Lost Ottawa, which is now Ottawa’s largest historical Facebook Community. David grew up in Ottawa, and then completed a BA in History at Carleton and a PH.D in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. For ten years he worked on a series of historical research projects at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He returned to Ottawa – his city of choice – in 2008 and now works as the Archivist for the Canada Science and Technology Museum. You can find Lost Ottawa on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa), where anyone can submit historical photographs of the city. From street photography to personal snapshots, this crowd-sourced online archive is a gold mine of urban visual culture, shared memories, and interactive history.

Tim Pychyl is the Director of the Centre for Initiatives in Education and an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. Tim has earned an international reputation for his research on procrastination (procrastination.ca). In addition to his scholarly writing, he writes the popular “Don’t Delay” blog with Psychology Today and produces the iProcrastinate podcast available through iTunes.  He has won numerous teaching awards including a 3M National Teaching Fellowship from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Association’s Teaching Excellence Award, and the University Medal for Distinguished Teaching at Carleton University. Most recently he was recognized with a Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs Faculty Mentor award.

Discount parking passes ($4.00 flat rate) will be available for sale from 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. See the “visiting” page of CUAG’s website for details.