FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES MAGAZINE TABLE OF CONTENTS THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES MAGAZINE

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2ND ANNUAL Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: John Osborne, BAHons/73 ([email protected]) POWER OF THE ARTS FORUM...... 4 Associate Dean (Curriculum, Programs and Planning): Sukeshi Kamra

Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs): Pauline Rankin/Mike Brklacich SIGNING IN FASS...... 8 Associate Dean (Student Affairs): Catherine Khordoc

CARLETON HOSTS Editor, Fassinate and Communications Officer, FASS: Nick Ward ([email protected]) GOTHIC COLLOQUIUM...... 10 Senior Development Associate: Anastazia Krneta ([email protected])

Newsletter Mission Statement FASS INTERVIEW: FASSinate is published for the alumni, faculty, staff, friends and partners of the Faculty of PURPOSE AND PERSEVERANCE...... 13 Arts and Social Sciences. The newsletter is intended to communicate the Faculty’s goals, strategic direction and activities in order to connect alumni to each other and the university.

STUDYING DISABILITY AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY...... 14 We are FASS Carleton University Art Gallery | Centre for Initiatives in Education | College BACHELOR OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL of the Humanities (Greek and Roman Studies, and Religion) | Department STUDIES AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY...... 17 of English Language and Literature | Department of French | Department of Geography and Environmental Studies | Department of History | Department of Philosophy | Department of Psychology | Department of Sociology and IN/WORDS...... 18 Anthropology | Institute for Cognitive Science | Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture | Institute of African Studies | Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies | Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN FASS CONGRATULATES: Studies | School of Canadian Studies | School of Linguistics and Language LINDSAY LANGSTAFF...... 20 Studies | School for Studies in Art and Culture (Art History, Film Studies, Music)

STUMBLING ON HISTORY IN NORTH-WEST ARABIA...... 23 ! We want to hear from you! It is with some sense of disbelief that I goes on. It has been a decade of In the pages that follow you will find sit down to write this my 10th, and for great change, but also one which has some of the exciting Faculty stories PERFORMING HISTORY...... 26 Your input and feedback are important to us. If you would like to submit a letter to the editor, or story ideas, send an email me the last, introduction to our annual seen our core beliefs in the importance of the past year. I hope you will enjoy LA VIEILLE CAPITALE: QUÉBEC CITY...... 28 to [email protected]. Faculty magazine. My second term of good teaching and excellent them, and that you will continue to as Dean will expire on June 30th, and research reinforced at a variety find ways to stay engaged with FASS INTERVIEW: I look forward to reengaging more of levels. Plus ça change… Carleton. Indeed, I hope to see many SHOULD YOUR DRIVERLESS CAR KILL YOU actively with my passion for research of you at our next “CU in Toronto” FASS has joined Twitter! TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A CHILD?...... 32 on the material culture of early medi- As some of you will know, the search event on May 21st. Happy reading! Follow @CU_FASS to keep in touch with all things Faculty of Arts eval Italy, something which has been for the next Dean continues, and in REMEMBERING JOY MACLAREN and Social Sciences. From interesting student, faculty and alumni reduced to secondary status in my the interim Associate Dean Catherine (NEW SUN)...... 34 stories to must-attend FASS events – If it’s FASS related (and maybe life for much too long. Khordoc has bravely agreed to hold even if it isn’t), we Tweet about it! Connect with FASS by following the proverbial fort for the 2015-16 PSYCHOLOGY’S MASSIVE OPEN @CU_FASS! ONLINE COURSE...... 36 In many ways this past decade seems academic year. She too is a FASS alum FSC Label – Portrait Artwork Matrix to have vanished in a flash, although and shares with many of us an abiding DGES PROFESSOR STUDIES METAL AND Cover Photo it is also difficult to remember a time love for the Faculty and its programs. when I was not occupying the end MERCURY EXPOSURE IN WATERFSC ON Label Artwork FSC_Labels_EnglishMartin Golland | ScriptoriumFSC_Labels_Portrait (2012) | Oil on canvas | 108” x 60” TEMAGAMI FIRST NATION...... 38 Courtesy of the artist and Birch Contemporary | Photo: Martin Golland office in Paterson Hall 330. And what These are not easy times for universities a decade it has been: the last ten anywhere in the world, but recent PROFESSOR STUART MURRAY...... FSC_Labels_PPC 40 Martin GollandFSC_Labels_PNC is one of fourteen contemporary Ontario artists featuredFSC_Labels_PPBW in FSC_Labels_PNBW events in countries like Pakistan and Human Nature, Carleton University Art Gallery’s summer blockbuster exhibition. years have witnessed an enormous Portrait / Positive / Colour (PPC) Portrait / Negative / Colour (PNC) Portrait / Positive / Black & White (PPBW) Portrait / Negative / Black & White (PNBW) The artists look at the state of the natural world, and our impact on it. Produced renewal of our faculty and professional Kenya serve to remind us of the FASS AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS & EVENTS...... 42 in collaboration with the National Arts Centre’s Ontario Scene, this is the most importance of education as a global ambitious exhibition in CUAG’s history. It includes video, sculpture, painting, staff, the addition of dozens of new large-scale installation, and performance. academic programs at all levels, force for good. 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Cert no. XXX-XXX-XXX Cert no. XXX-XXX-XXX Cert no. XXX-XXX-XXX Cert no. XXX-XXX-XXX For a weekend in November, 2014, the second annual Power of the Arts (POA) National Forum transformed the Carleton University River Building into a hub of cultural-celebration.

The POA Forum saw over 270 delegates experiencing and participating in West African Drumming, First Nations Round Dancing and Montreal-based Gospel Singing.

For the second year in a row, the POA Forum was co-organized by the Michaëlle Jean Foundation (FMJF) and Carleton University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). This year’s official theme was “Acting Now for Social Change.”

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PHOTO: WAYNE TENANT OF THE IMANI GOSPEL SINGERS PERFORMS

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In 2013, the introductory POA Forum was held at Carleton Dr. Ralph Masi, the Ontario Chair of the College of University and the forthcoming instalment has already been Family Physicians Canada, described this exciting new scheduled for the Fall of 2015. partnership. “This Power of the Arts fellowship will support individuals and teams who are engaged in research Co-Founders of the FMJF, Jean-Daniel Lafond and the related to the inclusion of the arts in family medicine. Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean (27th Governor General This exciting venture will bring together arts from many and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, Chancellor of the different aspects, including the art of medicine...” University of Ottawa and the newly appointed Secretary General of the International Organization of La The Forum is a safe space, serving as a model for a more Francophonie) were present and accessible throughout inclusionary and compassionate society. As one young JEAN DANIEL LAFOND AND THE RIGHT HONOURABLE the weekend, sharing their passions and attending events. MICHAËLLE JEAN PARTICIPATE IN A GROUP ACTIVITY delegate put it, “ I wish it could be POA all year long.” Appointed Senior Scholar at Carleton University’s FASS, The artistic and enthusiastic crowd was treated to Jean-Daniel Lafond has worked in collaboration with speeches and performances highlighting some of the Dean of FASS, John Osborne and the POA Committee work being done in conjunction with the unprecedented members, to assure the event was an engaging and partnership between H’Art of Ottawa, Carleton’s Jesse widely-attended happening. They’ve achieved their Stewart, Arts Project Australia, Indigenous Cultural Media goal and more… Innovations, Guerilla magazine, and The National Arts Centre. FASS Professor and talented Musician Stewart Though Forum attendees included the likes of senior spoke to the project while on stage saying, “We are scholars, medical professionals and accomplished turning the page on disabilities in the arts, and we artists, it did not feel like your typical academic invite you to turn the page with us.” conference. The Foundation founders and staff members created a truly comfortable and open atmosphere, in In 2014, for the first time, POA also partnered with the which, participants took an active role in expanding Carleton University Film Department and the Canadian the Power of the Arts Action Plan by collectively creating Film Institute (CFI) to curate and screen a variety of session summaries and offering suggestions after each independent, local and politically-charged films. The workshop. Beyond this, delegates were able to network aim was to bring the medium of film, an important with each other and promote their initiatives through a part of Lafond’s life, to the Forum. Turning the Page, a crowd-sourced poster display. The Forum brings people FARAH FANCY TALKS AT POA 2014 documentary about the H’Art of Ottawa performers and together to learn and to forge new connections and ideas. directed by Andrew Hall, made its debut. In addition, Tom McSorley, Executive Director of the CFI and film Colombian-born Pablo Muñoz, winner of the The PHOTOS BY: ROUSSAKIS PHOTOGRAPHY critic for CBC Radio One along with Barbara Laurenstin, Michaëlle Jean Foundation’s, Art Gallery of Ontario’s Host of EntreNous, Rogers TV took to the stage as the and WorldPride Toronto’s 4th Wall Youth Solidarity POA’s Masters of Ceremonies. Project, told the audience that “I did not work alone. I had the support of [thousands in] my community. I act The POA Forum provides an important opportunity for as a vehicle for what the community is saying.” Muñoz FASS to refocus attention towards the arts. The Forum, arrived to Canada as a refugee in 2000. Today, he is an brought together students, faculty, alumni, global accomplished citizen whose artistic work extends from stakeholders, curators, policy makers and artists at painting, design, performance art and writing. Carleton University to engage in a national conversa- tion about the importance of the arts and humanity As the forum grows, the scope and depth of related POSTER STAND within our society. collaborations continues to expand. At the 2014 POA Forum, The College of Family Physicians Canada in The story continues, as FASS is gearing up to host the conjunction with FMJF, announced a fellowship for 2015 instalment of the Forum, where diversity, justice arts in family medicine. Over the next three years, and the power of the arts will once again be celebrated they will jointly award over sixty thousand dollars for a full 48hrs. to qualified projects. Please visit the FASS website for information on PoA 2015: carleton.ca/fass

SAVANNAH SIMON YOUNG DELEGATES carleton.ca/fass 6 7 carleton.ca/fass courses and the program over the years. He is a very committed and creative teacher who has strong ideas about how the language is best learned and how the teacher can facilitate this learning. He knows how to engage students and to get them hooked on the process of learning. ‘Inspiring’ is definitely a good word to describe Jon. I think part of the SECOND YEAR CHILD STUDIES STUDENT, remarkable growth of our program is due to word EIMAN SULTAN PRACTICES SIGNING of mouth because students have such transformative experiences in our classes. When I think of the number of students who leave our program with an understanding of Deaf culture and some of the issues facing Deaf communities, and eager and INSTRUCTOR JON KIDD TEACHING ASL equipped to interact with these communities, I am filled with pride, and with gratitude to Jon.”

The overwhelming popularity of the program was one of the reasons for the Modern Languages PHOTOS BY: ROUSSAKIS PHOTOGRAPHY programs to move to St. Patrick’s building, where In the mid 1990s, the School of perspectives in ASL, as well as class. Establishing this minor was the its growth could be accommodated and new Linguistic and Language Studies taking into consideration the specific right move, because currently, ASL is facilities could be created. Because ASL is such (SLaLS) introduced the study of student makeup of each class. averaging 990 students each year. In a physical and visual language, traditional written American Sign Language (ASL) 2014, there were 1326 registrations! quizzes are insufficient tools for measuring students’ with two introductory classes which, Instructor Jon Kidd has been teaching proficiency and progress. The recently constructed combined, comprised 48 students. ASL courses since their inception “When I took my first American Sign back in the 90s. For his classes, which Language class at Carleton, I never iMac lab in St. Patrick’s is heavily booked by The courses were introduced to satisfy occur in essentially a no-voice classroom thought I would pursue the minor. ASL classes for semiweekly quizzes, teaching, a growing demand for post-secondary setting, he fosters a socio-cultural Being bilingual, I was interested in and feedback. Hi-definition cameras and a accessibility for North American learning environment with a heavy learning a third language and chose highly-customized homegrown ASL video communities of the Deaf and Hard of emphasis on peer interaction, in which, ASL as an elective. I instantly became recording system capture students’ video Hearing, as well as to equip students each student’s own innate and gestural passionate about the language and quizzes in real-time, sending copies to the to engage with these communities abilities play a role in the acquisition culture. The staff, which in my opinion instructor for marking and targeted feedback. throughout their lives. of the language skills. are the most integral part of the program, provide an amazing learning “Students and teachers really appear to enjoy using ASL is a fully developed language “I try to get to know the students the the Mac lab for ASL”, explains CALL Consulting Analyst, FIRST YEAR STUDENT ALEXANDER JESSO and growing experience. Each teacher ASKS FOR YOUR NAME IN SIGNS that consists of visual representations best that I can to find better ways to has a unique way of instruction, Mike Barker. “The new software is very user-friendly created through hand shapes and teach them, encourage conversation keeping the classes new and exciting. and it makes the whole recording process so much hand movements in a ‘signing space’ on a social level and draw on students Now, in my second year, I can attest simpler. Students also really appear to benefit from to present ideas, in conjunction creativity,” said Kidd. “At the same that this program has been and watching themselves on video and from receiving with facial expressions to present time, I encourage students to engage continues to be a challenging yet one-on-one feedback from their instructors.” grammatical information and other similar conversations with each other rewarding learning experience. If Taking the passionate faculty, staff and progressive information conveyed in spoken and whenever possible, to help each you are the slightest bit interested in technology into account, SLaLS has established languages through intonation, such other with their skills development. American Sign Language, I highly itself as one of the premier learning destinations as emphasis or speaker attitude. ASL In the end, I hope students will be recommend it. Prepare to be inspired,” in the world for those interested in ASL. uses 4000 signs based on linguistic able to continue using the language said Ashlee Emmett, who is a 2nd principles and highly developed whenever they need to. I have always year Psychology major and American “Plans are underway to seek a specialized option concepts of how to present visual gained a great satisfaction from Sign Language minor. for the students, perhaps in Interpreting/translating meaning. Fingerspelling is also central, bumping into a former student by further expanding our existing facilities and as it’s used for loan signs and names perhaps in the tunnel or on the quad, Professor and Director of SLaLS, Randall furthering the development of our close ties with as represented in other languages. and they stop to have a chat.” Gess, attributes this extraordinary Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (ALDS),” evolution to a number of things. “An says Kidd. “Other options are also being considered As you can see, becoming proficient SLaLS’s and Kidd’s approach and increased interest in ASL is a docu- centering on Deaf Studies and specialized language at ASL involves precise and sophis- teaching style has resonated. Since mented trend across North American translation. Regardless of which options we chose ticated teaching and learning. The the original course from the mid 90s, universities, but our program has to follow, the four-year minor program will form homegrown SLaLS curriculum was the program has grown exponentially. definitely been on the front edge the entry point.” created with the intent of taking into of that trend”, said Gess. ”This is account current practices and In 2005, a four-year minor in ASL was thanks in large part to the talents created in SLaLS with the objective of and efforts of our founding instructor, For more information on the School of Linguistic and reducing the large size of the first-year Jon Kidd, who has developed the Language Studies and the American Sign Language FIRST YEAR CANADIAN STUDIES STUDENT, program, please visit: http://carleton.ca/slals/ HANA STEWART. carleton.ca/fass 8 PHOTO: STIFF BROS STEREOVIEW OF EARNSCLIFFE, THE FIRST OF OTTAWA’S PINWHEEL VILLAS, TAKEN C.1872 LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA / TOPLEY (STIFF BROS) / PA-012694 E011073160 CARLETON HOSTS GOTHIC COLLOQUIUM

On September 26-27, 2014, Carleton Parliamentary Gothic as well. All these Commissioner, a group restricted to 50 University partnered with Heritage came together to transform rough was admitted to the grounds and Ottawa, the Pinhey’s Point Foundation, frontier Bytown into a City of Ottawa interior of Earnscliffe for a tour guided by and the City of Ottawa in a two-day worthy of being the capital of a new Drs Jeanes, Elliott, and Brittain-Catlin. colloquium on the origins of Ottawa’s nation and, in the context of the time, In the evening 96 people attended the domestic gothic architecture. a partner in the wider British Empire. keynote address by Dr. Brittain-Catlin on Pugin’s invention of the pinwheel The colloquium was hosted by the Professor Bruce Elliott of the plan, sponsored by Heritage Ottawa Carleton University Department of Department of History developed and doubling as the first of its annual History, and was accompanied by the exhibit, in consultation with David public lecture series. Its High Gothic an exhibit from the Pinhey’s Point Jeanes of Heritage Ottawa and Peter interior made St Alban’s Anglican Church Foundation to which History Depart- Coffman of Carleton’s Art History a wonderfully appropriate venue. ment undergraduates contributed. Department. Three students in Dr. This lecture and the two Saturday Both drew attention to thirteen Elliott’s third-year history course on lectures, which were free to all, were nineteenth-century villas, six still Ottawa neighbourhoods undertook also publicized as contributions to extant, designed in a Tudor Gothic research that supported elements of Culture Days 2014. style for members of the Ottawa the exhibit. Jennifer Horvath merged establishment by a Confederation all 49 sheets of Ottawa’s first fire The following morning, the PPF gothic generation of English architects who insurance atlas of 1878 into one exhibit was inaugurated in the lecture immigrated to Ottawa to compete mammoth datafile and highlighted theatre at Carleton University’s River for the Parliament Buildings contract. residential and non-residential build- Building, where David Jeanes spoke ings of stone; her map became the about Ottawa’s pinwheel villas and These houses shared a revolutionary centerpiece for a panel on Ottawa’s Ian Badgley, the NCC archaeologist, pinwheel floorplan that was not thirteen pinwheel houses. Arsalan about the place of the Pinhey family medieval at all, but an innovation traced Hosseini did some of the background homes in the context of the history recently to the father of the English research on Ottawa’s Parliamentary and redevelopment of LeBreton Flats. Gothic Revival, A.W.N. Pugin (1812-1852), Gothic, and Victoria Hawkins produced by Dr. Timothy Brittain-Catlin, an a paper on the gendering of Victorian The afternoon bus tour began with architectural historian at the University domestic space in the Christie house lunch at Cabotto’s Restaurant near of Kent School of Architecture. The that became the basis for the final panel. Stittsville, another of the pinwheel pinwheel plan represented a completely houses, specially opened by owner new way of organizing domestic space The colloquium began on Friday, Vincenzo Pucci. The coach tour in homes of modest size, in which wings September 26 with a tour of the Pinhey proceeded downtown by way of of variable length revolve outward family’s country house, Horaceville, so Richmond Road, allowing participants from a central stair hall. that participants could view the to view other surviving pinwheel Georgian vernacular residence of the houses: Silver Spring at Bell’s Corners, Dr. John Osborne, Dean of the Faculty first generation before learning about The Elms, Stadacona Hall in Sandy of Arts and Social Sciences, as an art the Gothic pinwheel villas erected Hill, now the Embassy of Brunei, and historian was immediately intrigued for the second. With the cooperation Abbotsford across from Lansdowne and readily agreed to finance the of the Anglican congregation of St Park, where guests were given a tour colloquium. Production of the exhibit Mary’s and its cemetery committee, by Patricia Goyeche, Coordinator of was made possible by a Heritage Old and New St Mary’s Churches Community Programs for Abbotsford/ Project Fund grant from the City were viewed with commentary by the Glebe Centre of the ground floor of Ottawa, with translation services Dr. Elliott. The ladies of New with its original marble fireplaces. The facilitated by its Culture and Heritage St Mary’s served a picnic lunch in tour also passed the onetime sites Services Branch. the Church Hall, provided by the of Dr. Hamnett Hill’s Tudor Hall and Pinhey’s Point Foundation. Charles Pinhey’s Merton Cottage on It was decided at the outset that while Wellington, Sandy Christie’s Moose the colloquium would focus on the On the Friday afternoon, through the Cottage on Bronson, and the Terraces, Gothic pinwheel house, the exhibit gracious permission of His Excellency a brick house built at 910 Bank for would feature ecclesiastical, civil, and Howard Drake, OBE, the British High Alexander Mutchmor, beside his stone BRUCE S. ELLIOTT

carleton.ca/fass 10 11 carleton.ca/fass pinwheel Abbotsford. The other lost pinwheel houses were Catherine Stewart’s Appin Place on the site of the Museum of Nature, Sir Henry Bate’s Trennick at 216 Chapel, and the Batson/ Parent house at 142 Daly. Parts of the latter survive amongst Mackenzie King’s artificial ruins at Kingsmere. All three tours were fully subscribed and the entire colloquium was blessed with two gloriously sunny days.

The Carleton Centre for Public History contributed a research assistant, Jesse KEYNOTE SPEAKER TIMOTHY BRITTAIN-CATLIN AT HOGS BACK FALLS Robertson, who video-recorded the three lectures and the bulk of the tour commentary for posting, once edited, to the Internet. On the Wednesday preceding the colloquium, Tim FASS INTERVIEW: Brittain-Catlin hosted the screening of a BBC Pugin documentary, God’s PURPOSE & PERSEVERANCE Architect, a late addition to the History TOUR GROUP AT NEW ST MARY’S CHURCH, Undergraduate Society (HUgS) fall PARISH OF MARCH Psych Prof Finds That Having a Sense of Purpose Could Lead to a Longer Life movie series, thanks to Laurie Brady, a graduate student in Canadian Studies, and Nancy Duff, librarian at the Audio-Visual Resource Centre at St Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Patrick include being focused on helping others, building financial Patrick’s College. Dr. Brittain-Catlin Hill has recently led a study that revealed a link between and occupational success, receiving recognition and also lectured in one of Dr. Coffman’s the sense of having purpose, and living a longer life. achievement in one’s field, and producing creative or classes that morning, and in the artistic works. afternoon in the History and Theory Published in the prominent journal, Psychological Science, of Architecture speakers’ series on Hill’s research concluded that those who feel they are living Does it matter what age or juncture of life that people “Failure in Architecture”, the subject a meaningful life are likely to be physically healthier, thus, are at when they discover their purpose? Can it be of his recent book Bleak Houses. extending their lifespan. too early or too late in determining your sense of purpose for it to have tangible implications on how The English language version of the FASS discussed these interesting findings with Prof. Hill… long you might live? Gothic exhibit has been installed in the Department of History (fourth How did you conduct this study? PH: At any age, finding a purpose in life appears adaptive. floor Paterson Hall) for the remainder Studies consistently show that having a purpose in life of the 2014-15 academic year, and the PH: The study employed longitudinal data from the Midlife corresponds to better health and wellbeing throughout full bilingual exhibit, including a segment in the United States Study (MIDUS), which first assessed adolescence and adulthood. In line with these findings, deploying 19th-century stereographic individuals on a variety of variables in 1994-95. This study our study shows that the effect of purpose on longevity 3D images of several of the pinwheel provided data on whether participants had passed away in is relatively stable (i.e., a similar magnitude) for younger, houses, will open at Pinhey’s Point the 14 years following the initial assessment. Our findings middle, and older adults. Historic Site in May. demonstrated that individuals who reported higher levels of purpose in life lived longer than their counterparts, even Why is a sense of purpose so influential? What role is when controlling for the known effects of other influences it playing for people that it results in a longer a life? on mortality risk, such as having positive relationships with others, and greater positive affect. PH: Having a sense of purpose is beneficial for a number of reasons. For instance, our research consistently shows How would you describe a “sense of purpose?” that purposeful individuals tend to be more “agentic” in their daily lives; that is, they are more likely to actively PH: Purpose in life is a difficult construct to define, but pursue their goals and engage in their daily experiences. most researchers characterize it as a sense that one In addition, purposeful individuals often report less anxiety has overarching goals for life that help direct daily and and stress in their daily lives, which also could play an long-term activities. Individuals vary greatly with respect important role in promoting long-term health and wellbeing. to what their specific purpose in life is, but some examples

PETER COFFMAN, TIM BRITTAIN-CATLIN, BRUCE ELLIOTT, AND DAVID JEANES AT THE RIVER BUILDING7 carleton.ca/fass 12 13 carleton.ca/fass STUDYING DISABILITY AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY

In the fall of 2014, Carleton University “People with disabilities are part of Cerebral Palsy and hearing loss. “It proudly launched a minor in our communities, our history, our encourages us not only to identify Disability Studies. culture and our society. They always barriers to inclusion in our world, have been and always will be. Disability but also, opportunities for building The multifaceted and interdisciplinary is not a sickness, and more likely than solutions. Social change is hard work, Disability Studies minor provides a not, everyone has experienced it though – it requires an understanding broader understanding of the experi- personally in one form or another.” of history, of various approaches and ence of countless people living with, how to bring people together.” or who are affected by, any form of He isn’t exaggerating. Hauch’s undergraduate degree with disability; be it learning, physical, the College of Humanities and Masters mental or otherwise. According to a 2010 United Nations of Arts in Political Science, coupled Report, disabled persons make up with his experience as past president Housed in the Institute of Interdisci- the world’s largest minority at around of the Graduate Students’ Association, plinary Studies, this innovative minor 15 per cent. An estimated one billion provided him with a keen understanding is the result of the hard work and people live with a disability, while of political processes and approaches collaboration of many faculty members, approximately 54 percent are directly for enhancing accessibility. students, and staff across all fields of affected by the disability of someone study at Carleton. At the forefront of close to them. “From exploring interests to meeting this endeavor is Roy Hanes, a long-time people of all different kinds of back- professor in the School of Social Coursework in the minor will explore grounds. I learned so much about the Work and a founding member of the the historical, cultural, economic, world, and about myself as a result,” Canadian Disability Studies Association. physical, and social aspects of adds Hauch. disability within a totally inclusive Hanes has tirelessly championed environment. Students will also Patrizia Gentile, Associate Professor disability rights since the early receive first-hand information, as a and Director of the Institute of Inter- 1980s. He helped initiate the Ottawa number of local people with disabilities disciplinary Studies, was instrumental Carleton Independent Resource will deliver guest talks to discuss their in the development of this new program. Centre, has served organizations such views and experiences. She believes the minor is going to help as the Council of Canadians with create a new social dialogue and Disabilities and the Canadian Centre Student Nathan Hauch (BHUMS/07, affords students a terrific experience for Disability Studies, shaped the first MA/09) is a great example of what and an exceptional skillset. social work course relating to critical can be accomplished professionally disability theory at Carleton and even for those educated in disability. Professors Gentile and Hanes are two developed and taught the first social of the many faculty members and work course relating to people with Since graduating, he has worked departments that were intimately disabilities in Russia. with Spinal Cord Injury Ontario as involved in the creation of Disability the co-ordinator of Public Policy Studies at Carleton. This includes, but Hanes is thrilled that Carleton University and Government Relations, and is not limited to, Dominique Marshall STUDYING DISABILITY is poised to become a leading voice in is beginning a new position as in History, Adrian D.C Chan from the his field of expertise. Accessibility Training Coordinator Department of Systems and Computer AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY with the City of Ottawa. He’s also Engineering, Karen March in the “The study of disability is an inter- currently completing a Graduate Department of Sociology and WELCOMING A NEW MINOR IN DISABILITY STUDIES nationally emerging field of study in Diploma in Health Policy with the Anthropology, Senior Advisor to the academia. Though it’s still relatively School of Public Policy and Provost Katherine Graham, former new, most people are beginning to Administration, and did much of Canadian Studies faculty member. realize the importance of investigating the background research on existing Katherine Arnup, and the current life with disability on a deeper level Disability Studies programs in the Director of the School of Canadian including the personal, social, political, English-speaking world. Studies, Peter Hodgins, who notes economic and cultural issues relating that the creation of the program, to disability; and I think this fits well “Disability studies are not just for “fortifies the line of thought that the culture at Carleton,” explains Hanes people with disabilities – it is for everyone,” says Hauch, who has

STUDENT NATHAN HAUCH SHARES A LAUGH WITH PROFESSOR ROY HANES PHOTO: ROUSSAKIS PHOTOGRAPHY carleton.ca/fass 14 15 carleton.ca/fass SUKESHI KAMRA AND CHRIS BROWN

TO THE BACHELOR OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY!

The Bachelor of Global and International provide an undergraduate experience this innovative program will prepare Studies (BGInS) at Carleton University in global and international issues that students for work and life in our will welcome its first students in can give residents an advantage in increasingly borderless world.” September 2015! today’s job market. By connecting with enthusiastic faculty and experiential There are four components to the The BGInS is jointly offered by the learning opportunities, this community BGInS degree: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will emphasize both global and 1) A multidisciplinary core course (FASS) and the Faculty of Public international approaches to the sequence, which provides all students Affairs (FPA) and is intended for study of the world. students who want to learn more with a common foundation in global and international studies. HANES AND HAUCH IN CLASS about, and engage constructively The result is a highly-personalized PHOTO: ROUSSAKIS PHOTOGRAPHY with, the world in which we live. degree that offers students a compre- 2) 12 specializations, some defined hensive foundation for several career thematically and some defined in The Program will allow students to paths, including immigration and terms of geographic regions of the pursue a wide range of career options refugee work, positions in national world, which allow students to acquire related to global and international and international justice institutions, a more in-depth knowledge of a studies, including graduate school in a Carleton is the most accessible campus result, they were able to propose a of courses on disability. The reception and in human rights organizations. subject of particular interest to them. in North America.” model for Disability Studies, while Smith for Disability Studies 1001 has been number of different disciplinary areas. BGInS Program Director Chris Brown created a Carleton University website wonderful: it filled on the first day, It is both multidisciplinary, in that says the study of many facets of a region 3) A language requirement intended As well, students like Hauch played an on the History of the wheelchair. and based on sheer demand, a second it introduces students to the many makes international studies particularly to make students capable of instrumental role in the implementation section had to be opened for the different disciplinary perspectives on suited to a collaborative approach. engaging with another culture in of the minor by providing input and For all those involved in the creation winter term. I hope this leads to the global and international studies, and a second language. research. This group included History and implementation of the program, development of many more courses interdisciplinary, in that it places these “We have many scholars doing interna- 4) An overseas experience requirement PhD student Dorothy Jane Smith, the Disability Studies minor is just the disciplinary perspectives in critical tional research, but to a certain extent in Disability Studies,” says Hanes. to ensure that all students have Erica Carson from Gender Studies beginning of a much grander journey dialogue with each other. we were hidden within existing disci- practical experience of living and and Social Work, and recent grads for Carleton University and the Institute Considering this eagerness and the plinary programs,” says Brown, who studying abroad. Phillip Bernard Turcotte, Human of Interdisciplinary Studies. bounty of leaders that already exist in The BGInS program will draw on the developed the Program with Sukeshi Rights, and Edward Ndopou, Directed the field at Carleton, Disability Studies’ knowledge of 80 faculty members Kamra, an Associate Dean in FASS from both FASS and FPA. and an Associate Professor of English. Interdisciplinary Studies. As part of “Many people are very interested future promises for extraordinary things. Has the BGInS caught your attention? the Social Work and Persons with in moving this forward. I remember You’re not alone! There has been a The innovative BGInS will be the first “What we are doing with this degree Disabilities course, Carson and when the Social Work and Persons tremendous student demand and the academic program at Carleton to is foregrounding one of Carleton’s Turcotte carried out a major research with Disabilities course first started in Program is filling up quickly. establish, in cooperation with Residence project which explored Canadian 1992, it had five students. Now there already existing strengths.” Services, a Living Learning Community Disability Studies programs. As a are over 100 registered for a variety To learn more about The Bachelor of which intentionally links the academic “The BGInS program offers students Global and International Studies Program program to life in residence. This unique a terrific opportunity to create a and how to apply, please visit: opportunity takes advantage of multidisciplinary, individualized http://www.carleton.ca/bgins/ Carleton’s strengths and location to degree,” explains Kamra. “I believe

carleton.ca/fass 16 17 carleton.ca/fass FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: MATT JONES, JENNA JARVIS, AND CAMERON ANSTEE IN/WORDS: NURTURING CARLETON’S WRITING COMMUNITY PHOTO BY: ROUSSAKIS PHOTOGRAPHY

encouragement she received at events won the bpNichol Chapbook Award. of being personally involved in sponsored by In/Words provided her Anstee claims that it was his appren- Canadian literary history.” For Million with the confidence to publish her ticeship at In/Words that introduced and for Anstee this involvement has work. Her winning the John Newlove him to the world of independent enabled them to experience Canadian Poetry Award had a similar effect: “It publishing: “I had never seen a literary history as an intimately personal is delicious to hear people say of me, chapbook before, and being told that family affair: as Anstee remarks, “my ‘She’s a poet.’” these scrappy-looking publications best friends and many of the writers counted for something, that there was that I most admire have been asso- Cameron Anstee, current Ph.D. a community of people who would ciated with In/Words.” Million offers a candidate at the University of read them and take them seriously, similar account: “It was the friendships Ottawa and founder of Apt. 9 Press, was an exhilarating experience.” I made and the inspiration these notes that the open mics hosted friendships provided that still push by In/Words provided him with “the Professor Tracey underscores the me to write to this day.” necessary push to begin writing as a significance ofIn/Words’ output member of a community, rather than to the development of Canadian in isolation.” While completing his B.A. literature. As a scholar whose focus and M.A. in English at Carleton, Anstee is little-magazine publishing in Canada In/Words continues to host weekly became deeply involved with the and the poets who contributed to the writing circles on Wednesday press. This experience ignited a passion rise of Canadian Modernism, Tracey evenings at Black Squirrel Books IN/WORDS: NURTURING CARLETON’S for publishing: “In/Words showed me is honoured to be part of the history and open-mic sessions the last how exciting and creative it feels that she has studied: “to be able to do Wednesday of every month at The WRITING COMMUNITY to bring the work of others into the what Canadian Modernist poets did Clocktower Pub in the Glebe. For world.” Apt. 9 Press is the brainchild takes it to a completely different level submission information or any other of this experience: since its inception of meaning.” Justin Million, another questions about the press, contact five years ago, Anstee’s press has former editor of In/Words, similarly Professor Collett Tracey at Collett. By Jon Brownlee Jones, a former editor of In/Words and winner of Arc published twenty-six chapbooks. feels that his and other students’ [email protected]. (BHUM with Combined Honours in English, 2017) Poetry Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Award in the summer One of these chapbooks, Claudia involvement with the press “gave of 2014, sought out the support of this community at Coutu Radmore’s Accidentals (2011), us nothing less than a very real sense As award-winning poet and recent Carleton MA graduate a turning point in his life two years ago. He had just Matt Jones observes, too many young writers do their returned home from a tour of duty in Afghanistan and, work in isolation: they “write in a ‘stovepipe’ hoping that as he relates, “I was tired of being an angry man. But I fate will send its tendrils down the chimney and grasp believed (and continue to believe) in healing.” And so onto their manuscript.” But without an audience to offer Jones started attending the weekly writers’ circles COLLETT TRACEY PHOTO BY: AINSLIE COGHILL support and feedback, novice writers can become hosted by In/Words. His poetry was greeted with keen PHOTO BY: ROUSSAKIS PHOTOGRAPHY paralyzed by self-doubt. enthusiasm and he was soon given the chance to read at the prominent local poetry festival VERSEFEST. The Professor Collett Tracey of Carleton’s English Department poem that won him Arc Poetry Magazine’s Reader’s Choice recognized this problem thirteen years ago and devised Award is “Wounded Village,” a gritty war poem charac- In/Words as a possible solution. Founded in 2001, the teristic of his style. But despite his rise to prominence student-run literary press sought to provide students in the Ottawa literary community, Jones measures his with a safe space to develop their work among peers literary success in personal terms: “I’m happy to report and a platform to showcase their writing. In addition that I’m not an angry person anymore.” to the regular publication of a magazine that consists solely of student writing, the press publishes chapbooks Former In/Words editor Jenna Jarvis’s recent work serves (books roughly the length of a novel chapter) and runs as another testament to the press’s success. In 2012, her weekly writers’ circles every Wednesday at Black Squirrel poem “River-Canal” was awarded the John Newlove Books and open-mics on the last Wednesday of every Poetry Award. Jarvis is quick to acknowledge the month at The Clocktower Pub. According to Professor importance of In/Words to her own development as a Tracey, these events and projects contribute to “bringing poet, citing other members of this community as her people together here at Carleton,” creating the type of greatest influence: “It is necessary for me to see what “understanding and appreciative” literary community my friends are doing, and to see how I might fit into that she envisioned at the press’s conception. their creative conversation.” According to Jarvis, the

carleton.ca/fass 18 19 carleton.ca/fass FASS CONGRATULATES LINDSAY LANGSTAFF

ATRIUM CROSS AND FRONT FACADE OF BASCILICA DE LOS REMEDIOS

“There are so many layers to it,” says Canada—we don’t have the deepest “The support of professors like Peter Langstaff, explaining what drew her roots in this area, and we need to Coffman and Mariana Esponda (School to the field of study. conserve what we have.” of Architecture), really influenced and helped push and shape my motivation “Colonial architecture changes While completing her HTA degree, and long term goals in my degree throughout the world. From place to Langstaff sensibly chose electives and profession.” LANGSTAFF POSES WITH THE STATUE OF MICHAEL place you can see all the different that fulfilled her personal interests, THE ARCHANGEL AT BASCILICA DE LOS REMEDIOS perspectives, and cultural influences.” and allowed her to apply her worldly “Taking the Minor in LACS allowed experiences. This meant that she me to enrich my knowledge on the With this in mind, Langstaff decided to mostly took courses in Latin American culture and history of an area, whose make her triumphant return to Ottawa, History based on her love of southern architecture I am deeply interested in, and began researching applications world architecture, this was a field and hope to study further in my Masters,” FASS CONGRATULATES Lindsay Langstaff has made CU history by becoming the first graduate to Carleton’s Azrieli School of Archi- of study that marvelously comple- explains Langstaff. “I felt that it allowed of Carleton’s new minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS). tecture & Urbanism. mented her degree. me to have a base of knowledge in LINDSAY LANGSTAFF which I could propose the topic of my She accomplished this feat by completing an Honours degree in This is when she first discovered “Taking those classes was a way to Master’s thesis as being a study on the History and Theory of Architecture with a Minor in Art History and Carleton’s History and Theory of bridge the gap in knowledge for me,” Reuse of Colonial Mexican Architecture CU’s First Graduate a Minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Architecture (HTA) program. She she says. for Modern Purposes.” to Minor in Latin successfully applied, and soon Langstaff followed a unique path to achieving this progressive degree… thereafter, found herself on a Through her profs in these Latin Assisted by her unique degree from plane to Ottawa. American classes she heard the Carleton, Langstaff has done just that. American and Remarkably, LACS’s first graduate was born in Ottawa, but moved with first rumblings that a minor in Latin She is now in the midst of completing her father to the Bahamas at a very young age. For the most part, she This was a decision she didn’t regret. American and Caribbean Studies was a Masters in World Heritage Studies, in a Caribbean Studies was raised in the Island Country. “Aside from the fantastic weather, life in consideration. She was so enthusiastic program affiliated with The United Na- in the Bahamas was relatively similar to that of the many Canadians “I adored HTA’s focus on history, about the prospective program that tions Educational, Scientific and Cultural and Carleton students who come from a small town,” says Langstaff. meaning and social significance of the Department invited her to join their Organization, in Cottbus, Germany. “I knew all my neighbours, and all of my neighbours knew me. the world’s constructed environment, discussions as a student representative. and how all of this embodies and One can only guess where Langstaff In the Bahamas, her father ran a local microbrewery, while Langstaff shapes our collective experience. In When the new LACS minor was will be studying next. went through elementary and secondary school. With no universities the program, I was able to examine officially approved, Langstaff promptly or colleges in close proximity, she knew she’d inevitably have to leave theoretical foundations of architectural signed up; and as they say, the home to pursue a post-secondary education. movements from all places and times.” rest is history. To learn more about the Minor in Latin As someone who has always wanted to learn more about new cultures Langstaff would spend much of her Under the supervision of Art History American and Caribbean Studies, and places, Langstaff instinctively took an opportunity to travel, moving time in HTA focusing on historical Professor Peter Coffman, Langstaff please visit the Institute of to Brazil to take part in a yearlong high school exchange program to conservation—the importance of the finished her degree with an Interdisciplinary Studies website: study Portuguese. She then did an exchange year in Mexico City to preservation of architectural historical independent study project that http://carleton.ca/iis/programs-of-study/ study Spanish and Architecture. sites. Langstaff proclaims, “If we don’t focused on the research of an latin-america-caribbean-studies/ adapt these sites for modern times, undocumented Mexican Basilica It was her time in these two countries that she first discovered her a part of who we are will deteriorate (Basilica de Los Remedios - pictured). academic interest in Colonial Architecture. and be forgotten. Especially in

carleton.ca/fass 20 21 carleton.ca/fass Stumbling on History in North-West Arabia

While on a 2011 research trip to north-western Saudi Arabia, College of the Humanities BA Religion student, Anik Laferriere was exploring a remote part of the Hzismā sand desert, home to the mystical and isolated temple of al-Ruwāfa, when she stumbled on something extraordinary…

Ruwāfa is a small, well preserved second-century structure that is a one-off in the vastness of the Arabian desert. Despite being in close proximity to water supplies (but little else), there is no evidence of any substantial human settlement at the site. Why this temple was built in such a seemingly impractical area has been a point of debate amongst researchers for a very long time. Astoundingly, the obscure location of this temple is only one contributing aspect of its greater exceptionality. What makes Ruwāfa even more remarkable are five Greek and Nabataean inscriptions that describe the structure as being constructed during the reign of emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, making the temple a famous attestation of Roman interaction in the Middle East.

While inspecting the site in 2011, Laferriere tripped over a discarded stone. As she collected her belongings, she instinctively took a fleeting look at the culprit of her impromptu sit-down on the desert’s sandy floor. In this glance, she noticed an unrecognizable Greek inscription on the stone at fault. Naturally, she shouted to her trusted colleague, mentor, and current research-travelling companion, Professor Greg Fisher from Carleton’s College of Humanities to come have a look.

Laferriere and Fisher analyzed the stone, and were quick to acknowledge and note its unusual markings. Little did they know, this stone would be the key to unlocking a missing piece of an archeological puzzle that has been baffling al-Ruwāfa researchers for more than a half-century.

THE DESERT LANDSCAPE AT RUWAFA. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANIK LAFERRIERE. carleton.ca/fass 22 23 carleton.ca/fass STUMBLING ON HISTORY IN NORTH-WEST ARABIA

Fisher’s forthcoming book, which Prof. Fisher is set to release a new comprehensive, wide-ranging, and is slated for release with Oxford book, Arabs and Empires Before up-to-date examination of what University Press in the spring of Islam, which collates nearly 250 ancient sources had to say about 2015, will address these inquisitions, translated extracts from an extensive the politics, culture, and religion of including a new reading of the array of ancient sources which, from the Arabs in the pre-Islamic period. group of inscriptions by Macdonald, a variety of different perspectives, It offers a full consideration of the accompanied by new drawings of illuminate the history of the Arabs traces which the Arabs have left in the temple. Arabs and Empires before the emergence of Islam. Drawn the epigraphic, literary, and archae- Before Islam will function as the most from a broad period between the ological records, and sheds light on up-to-date version of this important eighth century BC and the Middle their relationship with their often inscription and will offer readers a Ages, the sources include texts more-powerful neighbours: the much more complete version of this written in Greek, Latin, Syriac, states and empires of the ancient testament to Roman interest in Persian, and Arabic, inscriptions in a Near East. Arabs and Empires Before Arabia than has ever been made variety of languages and alphabets, Islam gathers together a host of available previously. and discussions of archaeological material never before collected into sites from across the Near East. a single volume — some of which Fisher hopes that this rather miraculous More than 20 international experts appears in English translation for SAUDI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS EXAMINE THE RE-DISCOVERED INSCRIPTION. PHOTOGRAPH event will remind burgeoning researchers from the fields of archaeology, the very first time — and provides BY GREG FISHER. that unearthing the past is not always a classics and ancient history, linguistics a single point of reference for a particularly predictable venture. and philology, epigraphy, and art vibrant and dynamic area of research. history, provide detailed commentary “From the perspective of a teacher, and analysis on this diverse selec- the discovery shows students that tion of material. while the material is most certainly Arabs and Empires Before Islam will be It was not until Fisher was editing a was prepared for my forthcoming Referred as “Inscription III,” it is the ancient, new discoveries can and do Richly-illustrated with 16 colour available in 2015. Learn more here: contribution for his new book Arabs edited book, Arabs and Empires third of five Greek and Nabataean happen all the time – and sometimes, plates, 15 maps, and over 70 in-text http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/ and Empires Before Islam from one Before Islam. Michael Macdonald had Ruwāfa inscriptions that serve as quite by accident,” said Prof. Fisher. images, the volume provides a 9780199654529.do of the world’s foremost epigraphy only the drawing made by Philby in attestation to Roman interest in Saudi experts, Michael C.A. Macdonald, did 1957 before we realized that in my Arabia. The set of inscriptions refer to he realize that he and Laferriere may stash of photos, was something the erection of the temple of al-Ruwāfa have very literally stumbled on a quite exciting,” said Fisher. by a group of people called Thamud, profound re-discovery. the name of a nomadic tribe who are This meant that it was likely that first recorded as having encountered In the draft of his contribution to Fisher and Laferriere were the first the Assyrians in the latter part of the Fisher’s book, Macdonald wrote two people to realize the whereabouts eighth century BCE, and the Roman about an inscribed stone, now lost, of the stone in decades. emperors Marcus Aurelius (161-80), that was last seen in 1956/7, when it and Lucius Verus (co-emperor until 169). was copied by the celebrated British “The serendipity of the discovery seems explorer, St. John Philby. In Macdonald’s incredible to me,” said Laferriere. “We The long-lost third inscription makes research, he included a note that were unaware at the time that it held mention of Verus, meaning that the Philby had drawn the stone, but any significance whatsoever, except text of the inscription was carved that its current location was a mystery, as an example of Roman presence while he was still living, prior to 169. and assumed by many to have been in the area. When we found out that eternally misplaced. this particular inscription had been All inscriptions, save Inscription III, are missing for about 50 years, we could currently displayed in the Riyadh When Fisher read this, he immediately not believe our luck!” museum. Needless to say, the newly recalled that he had seen an inscribed rediscovered Inscription has initiated stone at Ruwāfa that matched Thanks to the meticulous assistance many new questions about the site, Macdonald’s description. of Macdonald, it was confirmed in the historical significance it holds, 2014 that the impression inscription and how it will shape our present “The discovery of the ‘lost stone’ was found by Laferriere and Fisher was understanding of early Roman very exciting, as a completely new indeed Philby’s lost stone. political and diplomatic interest edition of the Ruwāfa inscriptions in the Arabian Peninsula.

THE INSCRIPTION FROM RUWAFA. PHOTOGRAPH BY GREG FISHER. carleton.ca/fass 24 25 carleton.ca/fass PERFORMING HISTORY

“They seized on the chance to say authority that surrounds the ‘Historian’ event titled Staging Our Histories, things about the histories they were as an academic. It also forces you which will take their classroom expe- working on in a very different way— to become self-aware of your own rience to another level and to a wider through spoken word, song, music, performance when you write an essay audience. “The power and emotive dance, film, and using voices, bodies, or a thesis, and that can be very force of the performances the class movement, images, objects,” challenging. At the same time, though, shared with each other is what inspired explained Prof. Dean. this realization opens up the floor Staging Our Histories,” said Bajpeyi. to other ways of narrating and per- “That was the real experience that “Some even chose to work on stories forming history. That was perhaps David’s class offered us. I think we about themselves, their families, the most important for me.” were all blown out of the water with places they called home. It was as if what we saw and experienced with they had been dying to explore their The climax of the seminar was of course each individual performance. Until own histories of identity, belonging, the presentation of original historical that day, I hadn’t realized the immense and memory, but had never had the performances researched and devised potential that performative mediums chance to do this in the classroom or by each student. These included offered the humanities.” in their term papers, major research a dance movement interpretation essays, or theses. Everyone relished of post-colonial Indian identity, an the chance to make the personal his- originally composed song about the transatlantic slave trade, and a play Use this link to see videos of these MARIE-ANNE-GAGNON PERFORMING ORIGINAL torical and the historical personal.” SONGS AND STORY BASED ON HER about identity in rural Ontario. Dean wonderful student performances: GRANDFATHER’S REPERTOIRE OF SONGS. From 2006 to 2012, Dean had the and students witnessed performances http://carleton.ca/fass/2014/perform- opportunity to work with Peter Hinton drawing inspiration from cartoons in ing-history/ and Paula Danckert—the artistic the Legionary magazine, stories of director and dramaturge of English asylum incarceration, Métis culture You can read more about Professor Theatre at the National Arts Centre in and identity, a grandfather’s life in Dean’s performing histories project PERFORMING HISTORY: Ottawa. During this time he engaged song, children’s life in the Third Reich, on his website: performingthepast.com, with many actors, designers, stage Cape Breton ceilidhs, a Hudson’s Bay while his book, History, Memory, managers, and technicians devoted Company trader, royal and prime Performance (edited with Yana to the work of representing the past ministerial portraits, and the Nutcracker Meerzon and Kathryn Prince of the on stage, and through these collabo- ballet. Several students opted for University of Ottawa’s Department of Australian historian Greg Dening once remarked that if history is a rations he realized that as an historian digital storytelling, offering mash-ups Theatre) was published by Palgrave performance then historians are the performers. Nineteen graduate he also performs—as a researcher, of originally composed music and Macmillan in January 2015. students taking Professor David Dean’s MA seminar Narrativity and writer, and teacher. This newfound images of the Halifax explosion, a riff Performance in Public History put Denning’s theory to the test last winter. understanding motivated him to track to an NFB film about Champlain, encourage his students (in a seminar an exploration of self identity through For Narrativity and Performance, students were asked to produce and about storytelling) to do rather than photographs and home movies, a perform a piece of work on a history in which they had an interest. be content with analyzing what others multi-layered story of place and do, to learn about the historian’s craft memory in Grimsby, Ontario, and a stop After exploring theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, the class by performing their own or other motion video about grandparents. interacted with Ottawa based storyteller Ruth Stewart-Verger, Skyped people’s histories before a supportive with UK performance scholar Dr. Lisa Peschel about her recovery of but critically engaged audience. For Dean, to see his students excel Holocaust plays and cabarets, and took advantage of Carleton University in uncharted territory was a totally Art Gallery’s artists talks and a performance of Hannah Moscovitch’s Student Arpita Bajpeyi took Prof humbling experiencing. (recent Trillium award-winning) play, This is War, at the Great Canadian Dean’s challenge and ran with it. Theatre Company. How historical arguments and meaning are represented “Our full day of performances, talk- through storytelling, and thinking reflexively about their roles as historians “Professor Dean’s seminar was at backs, and discussion at the Discovery in the process of history-making, were the key objectives of the seminar. once both liberating and challenging. Centre was amazing and inspiring.” I think for a lot of us students, it was Dean was thrilled, and even a little caught off guard with the level exciting to consider historians as Dean wasn’t alone in feeling stimu- of enthusiasm that he saw from his students in embracing this performers creating narratives. Once lated by the course. Bajpeyi, along unique endeavour. you realize that historians are storytellers with fellow Narrativity and Performance performing their art on the page, you students Sinead Cox, and Marie-Anne can start to chip away at the aura of Gagnon have organized a public

carleton.ca/fass 26 27 carleton.ca/fass DISCOVERING LA VIEILLE CAPITALE: QUÉBEC CITY

For the past three years, Carleton “I believe that learning is about “We wanted students to experience University students have packed their mobilizing the whole individual—mind this spectacular city so they become bags and headed east to Québec and heart”, explains Trépanier. “Expe- aware of the layered history it conveys”, City—home to some of the richest rience of `otherness’ can provide an says Côté. “Some cultural knowledge history and culture in Canada. extra eye sharpening that will benefit cannot be described in a textbook. the students’ skills. The trip also tends Why spend hours convincing students Students set out on this learning to be an incubator for fostering ideas of the importance of the Ursulines adventure as part of two courses about graduate research projects and when it’s possible to visit their museum offered by Carleton on Québec’s a turning point in some students’ imag- and see the fantastic premises they culture, history and language in ination regarding their future careers.” have built since 1639?” the greater context of Canada. Côté and Trépanier also hope that Though great emphasis is put on Sébastien Côté in the Department the learning opportunity fosters an learning and outcomes, Trépanier and of French offers a fourth-year seminar appreciation for historical aesthetics Côté also nurture the cohort aspect focusing on the literature and culture of in a beautifully maintained historic of the travelling course. Throughout New France (1534-1763), while Anne environment, be they old stones or the trip, students eat, relax and socialize Trépanier of the School of Canadian stunningly written manuscripts. together. The professors even organize Studies, teaches a fourth-year seminar a couple of fancy dinners in beautiful in English that explores national identity As Côté’s student Sarah Parvaiz puts restaurants and a day trip to rural JEAN-LOUIS-BAPTISTE FRANQUELIN, CARTE DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE (1688) and the essence of Canada’s two it: “For the very first time in my life, heritage île d’Orléans that has proven capitals, Québec City, and Ottawa. I felt history, I lived through it. The to be a much-loved activity. main reason being, Québec is, to this The early summer courses travel day, left untouched in many ways. The “Last year”, Côté recalls, “as we were together to Québec City to immerse Citadelle, Château Frontenac and the visiting the Manoir Mauvide-Genest themselves in the culture they’re battlefield all reflect a richness that on the island, the guide told us en studying. Designed to create a more is only the tip of the iceberg. Québec passant that a neighbouring house DISCOVERING LA VIEILLE CAPITALE vibrant link between the research City is indeed a jewel, a place that built in 1649 was up for sale! That’s interests of faculty and the learning makes you believe you’ve stepped an anecdote you never forget.” Carleton’s Summer Seminars in experience of students, these courses in an entirely different world and feature lectures, roundtables, into a different era.” Québec City guest speakers, field visits and other relevant activities. To learn more about the two Québec Stories, please visit the FASS website at: http://www.carleton.ca/fass/

STUDENTS WALKING ON THE WALLS OF THE CITADELLE

BASILIQUE-CATHÉDRALE NOTRE-DAME DE QUÉBEC carleton.ca/fass 28 Many of Hoey’s students aspire to become professional writers themselves, so they were thrilled when they were afforded an opportunity FASS: to meet and chat with the prose writers they AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS were studying. AND EVENTS

“Every week of the course had its highlights”, remarked Hoey. But two special occasions included a visit with Giller winner Elizabeth Hay and another from Coady, who gave the Munro Beattie Lecture last November.

PROF. HOEY (CENTRE, RED BLAZER) AND HER Hoey wants everyone to understand the STUDENTS WELCOME CANADIAN WRITER AND life-enriching qualities that accompany a SOCTIABANK GILLER PRIZE WINNER, LIZ HAY, (CENTRE, PINK TOP) TO THEIR COURSE. passion for reading.

“When I was a child, my parents saw reading as leisure, as a hobby, so I would have to sneak it in on my spare time. I still remember having to memorize Pauline Johnson’s poem The Song THE GILLER EFFECT: my Paddle Sings for my Grade 3 teacher and the impact it made on me. Canadian literature English’s New Course engulfed me when I was young and there’s been no looking back.” on Canada’s Top Literary Prize Hoey believes Canadians owe it to themselves to take pride in Canada’s literary culture. This is perhaps the greater narrative of her course – to Opening of the Patrick Cardy Studio (Music) celebrate and assess the significant prize that applauds our best writers and books, and to cul- During his thirty years at Carleton University, the late Last fall marked the 20th anniversary To the delight of the Carleton “The Scotiabank Giller Prize has now tivate a more thorough appreciation and respect Professor Patrick Cardy (1953-2005) spent countless of Canada’s top literary achievement community, alumna Lynn Coady become an internationally recognized for our authors of the past, present and future. hours teaching in Loeb A900, a teaching and performance for fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize. captured the 2013 Giller for her standard of literary excellence”, explains space better known to generations of Carleton music Sean Michaels received the award for short story collection Hellgoing. Hoey. “We have just begun to scratch The existence of this course, and the opportunity students and faculty as “Studio A.” On October 4, 2014, his celebrated book Us Conductors at Coady graduated from Carleton in the surface.” it offers its students, is proof that the “Giller Effect” Dr. Cardy's family, friends, colleagues and supportive a black-tie event hosted by television 1993 with a degree in English and continues to extend its reach. donors attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate personality Rick Mercer. Philosophy and is now considered As members of Canada’s original the opening of the newly refurbished teaching and recital space that has been funded and named in his honour. one of the most acclaimed Canadian academic course on the Giller, Hoey’s Established in 1994 by Jack Rabinovitch writers of her generation. students were some of the first to to honour to his late wife – journalist pass a magnifying glass over the prize. and writer Doris Giller - the annual Her win hit home and this dramatic award rewards Canadian authors who influence of the Giller called for “The Scotiabank Giller Prize course have had a profound national and/or academic analysis. exposed us to a new level of literature international cultural impact. that analyzed prose aesthetic and In September 2014, the Department delved into the valuable industry Since the prestigious prize was of English Language and Literature at created by literary prizes”, said launched, the Canadian literary scene Carleton offered the first-ever course student Genevieve Murray has flourished and achieved greater on “The Giller Effect.” global recognition. The impressive “As literary archaeologists, under the list of previous winners, including Taught by Rosemarie Hoey, students guidance of our talented professor, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, were challenged to understand the we worked to justify the recipients of Alice Munro and Michael Ondaatje, sociological, political, historical and the prize, connect the authors and economic implications of Canada’s narratives to their context, and have helped establish the Giller The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender richest prize, with a purse of $100,000. discern patterns throughout the Prize as the pinnacle of literary Studies Welcomed Former Prime Minister the Right acknowledgement in Canada. Students examined what roles the years of the award. The course Honourable Kim Campbell Giller plays in the lives of writers and enabled us to synthesize the power readers, and what impact the prize and effects of one of Canada’s Former Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Kim might have on the greater literary increasingly important awards.” Campbell gave a lectured entitled “Doing Politics sphere in the digital age. Differently” to a standing-room-only crowd comprised of students, staff, faculty and members of the greater Ottawa community. carleton.ca/fass 30 I interpret these results as an indication action conference. What struck me FASS INTERVIEW: that engineers need to think carefully was the number of engineers and de- about the ethics underlying certain signers who recognize that our tradi- SHOULD YOUR DRIVERLESS CAR automation design features. Even if tional way of conceiving engineering KILL YOU TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A CHILD? the majority of people would want ethics—as professional ethics—needs the car to save them and sacrifice to be broadened in order to deal with Philosophy’s Jason Millar talks to FASS the child, hard coding that decision the kinds of design issues that seem about the ethical implications of technology into the car would confound the unique to the context of automation moral preferences of a significant technologies. The workshop partic- number of users! ipants agreed that the only way to adequately address these issues is an When I look around I find that this kind interdisciplinary approach that puts of problem comes up in all sorts of traditional technical disciplines working The research of Jason Millar (Department of Philosophy) it mean to improve that process? To what extent must we automation technologies, including alongside philosophers and ethicists, examines the social and ethical implications of technology consider the user in our design activities? These kinds of medical implants and robotics, social policymakers, lawyers, psychologists, in our rapidly transforming and increasingly gadget- questions strike me as a natural fit between philosophy interesting ethical issues. Who gets robotics, Facebook and other social sociologists and other experts in the centric world. and engineering. to have access to the vast data that a media—the list is growing. There are a carebot working in a patient’s home humanities and social sciences. growing number of technologies that Millar is an engineer who returned to university to study Why is it important that we attain an understanding of generates in the course of caring for have the capacity to make sophisti- From my own perspective I think what Philosophy, and now finds himself asking tough ethical the potential implications of these technologies? that patient? Is it ever ethical to design cated, often deeply moral, decisions needs to happen is a broadening of questions such as “should your driverless car kill you a carebot to deceive a patient? Is it on behalf of the user in cases where, what we consider within the domain to save the life of a child?” JM: I’m currently studying a set of design problems that ethically acceptable to replace human seem unique to, or at least more prominent in relation to, from an ethical perspective, the caregivers with robots? Social robotics, of “engineering ethics”, to include Millar recently sat down with FASS to discuss his work sophisticated automation technologies. As robotics and decision should be left to the user. represented by robots like Jibo and a more philosophically informed and the important role the arts and social sciences will other semi-autonomous technologies advance in their By taking the decision away from Nao, are another emerging area. Given analysis of technology. When I look play in assessing our reliance on Artificial Intelligence sophistication, more and more decision-making algorithms the user, engineers and designers that those robots are designed to be at the recent focus on privacy spurred and semi-autonomous technology in our everyday lives. are embedded in them. It turns out that in some cases undermine users’ moral preferences. embedded in a user’s social sphere, by the Internet, and now the growing the kinds of automated decisions that technology can elicit trust and engage users in social focus on robot ethics, I think the Part of my work involves designing Why did you make the decision to come back to school make have significant moral implications for users. relationships (e.g. friendships), to engineering profession is experiencing ethical evaluation frameworks that and study Philosophy? How does your background as what extent can they be designed a shift in the way that engineering engineers and designers can apply in an engineer influence your current research? Here’s an example that illustrates the point. I call it the to function as an agent of the ethics is conceived. This happened in the design process in order to avoid Tunnel Problem: “You are travelling along a single-lane corporation selling them? What kinds medicine. The medical profession falling into the hard coding trap. In JM: In engineering we don’t get to take many breadth mountain road in an autonomous car that is fast of informed consent requirements are experienced a broadening out from the end, I believe that we can design electives, but I did take a couple, one of them was a course approaching a narrow tunnel. Just before entering the appropriate for those robots? Does professional ethics, to reconceive automation technologies that account in Political Philosophy. A few years after graduating, tunnel a child errantly runs into the road and trips in the the age of the user change these medical ethics as requiring a for users’ moral preferences, that are while I was working as an engineer, I found that I couldn’t centre of the lane, effectively blocking the entrance to considerations? Autonomous cars are philosophically informed bioethics trustworthy, and trusted, so long as shake the philosophy course. It was in my head, so to the tunnel. The car is unable to brake in time to avoid raising a number of issues. Who should in the mid to late twentieth century. we take these kinds of ethical speak. John Rawls’s thought experiment involving the a crash. It has but two options: hit and kill the child, or decide how cars react in difficult moral Coincidentally, it was the introduction considerations into account during veil of ignorance and original position impressed me in swerve into the wall on either side of the tunnel, thus situations? Can an autonomous car of new technologies—for example, the design phase. Given the number the way it provided a practical approach to addressing killing you. How should the car be designed to deal be designed to intentionally inure artificial insemination, sophisticated of automation technologies that are issues of social justice. I don’t think it’s a far stretch to see with this kind of scenario?” a passenger in order to “distribute” life-supports, genetics, and so on— in the design pipe, we need to get a why this would appeal to an engineer. I saw Rawls’s the overall harm in an accident more that played a big role in ushering in handle on the ethics of automation argument as a means of “designing” society, a sort of From a technical perspective an engineer might think evenly? Should owners be able to pay that shift. Automation technologies sooner rather than later. social blueprint, and a lot of philosophy can certainly the solution is straightforward. She might say something to have their cars get them around are doing the same to engineering. function in that way. You make an argument and, if it like, “we can just poll individuals to see what they would faster than other people? The kinds of ethical issues I study, sticks, the world changes. It’s a slower change, and it want the car to do and then hard code the majority’s What do you believe are some like the tunnel problem, require specific areas of ethical concerns that isn’t as easy as designing a widget, but it’s a change answer into the vehicle.” But that would be a mistake. The truth is that the more automation a fundamental shift in how we we presently face, or are likely to nonetheless. In that sense I’ve always thought that The tunnel problem isn’t a technical problem; it’s a deeply technologies we imagine, the more (engineers) conceptualize the ethical confront in the foreseeable future? philosophy and engineering have a lot in common. personal ethical problem. And if you ask people the ethical issues are raised. It’s a really dimensions of technology and our right questions, you can see the difference in action. interesting time to be thinking about design work. We can’t tackle these JM: In the Robot Ethics course I teach Being an engineer has had a huge impact on my research The Open Roboethics Initiative, a group I’m involved the philosophy and ethics of technology. issues in a vacuum; we need to enlist here at Carleton, I underscore a number choices. Having designed different kinds of technology, with, polled people to see how they would want the car other experts to get the work done. of areas that are of growing ethical when I read philosophy I always ask whether and how it to respond and a surprising number of people, close to What do you believe is our ‘best concern. Military drones are raising can inform the engineering profession. How could a par- 40%, chose to hit the wall. We also asked readers whom practice’ as we prepare to deal important questions. To what extent ticular theory in ethics, for example, define appropriate they thought should make the decision, and the results with these newfound realities? should we automate them? Should goals for engineering practice? Does a particular argument were interesting. Only 12% of respondents thought that military robots be able to target and problematize the kinds of activities that engineers take manufacturers should be making the decisions, while JM: I recently participated in a work- fire without human oversight? for granted? How, exactly, does technology come into 44% thought the passenger should have the final say shop at a large human robotics inter- Medical robotics is also raising the world and could we improve that process? What would in the outcome.

33 carleton.ca/fass JOY DISPLAYING HER FAMOUS BLUE SHAWL to receiving the DVD documentation of the presentations AT THE NEW SUN CONFERENCE she had missed. (All presentations are archived on DVD FASS: in Carleton’s MacOdrum Library). After missing the dance performance by BluePrint for Life at the 2012 AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS conference, she asked if I could teach her to hip hop. “I’m AND EVENTS always up to learning something new,” she wrote in an e-mail.

When Joy first began attending the New Sun Conference, she would wear her distinctive blue shawl emblazoned with its brilliant New Sun design fashioned from gold and copper sequins. The shawl was presented to her in BMUS AND CERTIFICATE IN CARILLON 1995 when she was given the name, “New Sun”, by elders STUDIES GRAD REBECCA MANOUCHEHRI, from the Blackfoot, Mohawk and Ojibway nations at a SEATED AT THE PEACE TOWER CARILLON special naming ceremony at Carleton University. At later ON PARLIAMENT HILL conferences, Joy asked that the shawl be displayed on the wall at the front of the room during the day. In 2011, when she was given an honorary doctorate by Carleton, she donated the shawl to the university. (That same year she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her philanthropy and ongoing support of post-secondary education). In 2015, the shawl was again displayed at the conference in Joy’s honour and memory. First Graduate in Carillon Studies (NEW SUN) A detail of the shawl graces the cover of the book, Spirit of Joy, a collection of stories and photographs compiled Rebecca (“Beckie”) Manouchehri was the first by Joy and published by the Glenbow Museum to mark Carleton student to ever graduate with a Joy’s 80th birthday in 2002. One of the most memorable Certificate in Carillon Studies. photographs shows Joy at age eighteen with a favourite horse that was a cherished companion for thirty years. I The Dianne Parsonage Award in Carillon Studies has recently been endowed, and the first recipient The theme of the 14th Annual New while images of Joy played out on a in intimate surroundings with people was reminded of that photograph when reflecting on the was Devon Hansen, who is currently completing a Sun Conference on Aboriginal Arts slow scroll across two video screens. who began to identify as members of final e-mail correspondence I had with Joy last summer, Certificate in Carillon Studies. held at Carleton University this past the New Sun community. Joy seemed following a visit to Vienna where I participated in a Joy Maclaren transformed the lives February was “Life Lived Like A Story.” especially pleased, and “community conference honouring Anishinaabe writer, Gerald Vizenor, of many people, arguably, none more The theme was appropriate, not only members” were especially generous who had been a presenter at the New Sun Conference than mine. As a result of a generous to the artists, actors, writers and in their appreciation. One Elder wrote: in 2010. Mentioning to her some of the local sites my wife donation from Joy to Carleton in musicians who shared their personal and I had visited, she responded, “I’ll bet there is one 2000, I was offered the position I want to thank you and New Sun for stories with the capacity audience that place that you didn’t go to, but where I spent a great of New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art an amazing day at Carleton University. DEVON HANSON, SEATED AT THE day, but appropriate to Joy Maclaren, deal of time – the stable for the Lipizzaner horses. I loved and Culture (the first of its kind in I believe that the human heart is the PEACE TOWER CARILLON ON “New Sun”, who passed away at the watching those magnificent stallions train.” age of ninety-two in November, 2014, Canada) and moved from the west storage place of our tears. Tears are PARLIAMENT HILL and whose extraordinary life of gen- coast to Ottawa in 2001. Here, I was so very precious, but still, I left a few “Life lived like a story,” indeed. In retrospect, there erosity and support for indigenous cross-appointed as Associate Professor of mine at Minto Centre, so moving couldn’t have been a better conference theme with which education, was honoured before the in the School of Canadian Studies were some of the words I heard. Yes, to honour Joy Maclaren. Her zest for life and insatiable proceedings got underway: President and the Department of Art History I left something but I took away much curiosity are an inspiration to us all. We will miss her. Roseann O’Reilly Runte spoke of Joy’s in the School for Studies in Art and more and I will benefit in mind, heart and personal kindness, Canadian Studies Culture. The first New Sun Conference soul because of it. God bless you both. professors Jennifer Adese and Kahente was held in the winter of 2002 on Horn-Miller, both recipients of New the theme of healing through the Joy gave seed money to a number of Sun Visiting Aboriginal Scholar arts. Much like the 2015 event, which projects across Canada but developed The Dianne Parsonage Award in Carillon Studies professorships, in 2012 and 2014 focussed on healing narratives, it was a particular fondness for the New Sun an eclectic mix of film, photography, Conference which she supported an- respectively, expressed their deep Awarded annually on the recommendation of the comedy, music and education that nually until her passing. By 2014 she appreciation for the opportunities School in Arts and Culture to a student pursuing had attended seven of the last nine Joy had given them, and, as New Sun celebrated the achievements of Indig- Carillon Studies. Endowed by Dianne Parsonage in Chair and organizer of the conference, I enous artists. Over the next decade, conferences, and was one of the first memory of the life and courage of Ashley Smith. expressed my own heartfelt gratitude, a variety of creative artists—from to ask probing questions of presenters Joseph Boyden and Susan Aglukark at each one. She was annoyed that More information here: to Tom Jackson and Tantoo Cardinal illness kept her from attending two of http://carleton.ca/music/carillon/ —shared inspiring and hopeful stories the conferences and looked forward

JOY AND ALLAN RYAN SHARE A LAUGH carleton.ca/fass 34 PSYCHOLOGY’S MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE BRINGING MOOCS TO CARLETON

Look closely at Carleton’s coat of Sorley and Christopher Motz about After a couple of months of prepa- Bringing flexibility to the rigid semester strict deadlines gives “on their own In one short year, Tsuji, Motz and arms, and under perched ravens submitting a funding application for ration, the trio got down to business. system is no small feat—there’s a ton time” a whole new meaning. There are Sorley have brought two psychology and a blazing phoenix, you’ll see the project at the beginning of 2014, They recorded the modules, provided of back-office work, and it means the chronic procrastinators, and there courses to the masses, secured their the phrase “Ours the Task Eternal”. they jumped aboard—but not without teaching support, developed the instructors have to work year-round. are the ones Motz calls “the rabbits,” first Flex Term student and earned a little convincing first. assessments, and, as Sorley puts it, But breaking the traditional schedule those students who whiz through a Carleton University Teaching It’s a fitting mantra for psychology dealt with the numerous “gotchas!” means that a student who’s in the a semester’s worth of work in a Achievement Award along the way. professor Bruce Tsuji and his team, “We went along with it because he and logistical surprises that emerged military, or on several sports teams, fraction of the time. who launched the university’s first wasn’t going to take no for an answer,” along the way. or a single mom who works full-time, But it’s only the beginning. open-access course in 2014 and says Sorley. “Simply, it took a village can take the course on their own The team has included a video module have no plans to stop there. to put all of this together…so not only While it may seem as though they terms—literally. It is, as Motz puts it, titled Chapter 00: How to Succeed In 2015, they hope to increase aware- is Bruce the course instructor, but he’s built two online courses, PSYC 1001 R a groundbreaker. in an Online Course in order to tackle ness of their online options, enlist “All that open-access courses require also the mayor. He was such a force and PSYC 1002 R, the team actually student challenges head-on since many others in the department and big is an Internet connection and a desire of nature that I nicknamed him ‘Tsunami’ made six: two web courses for “The value is in offering it,” he says. of their students are new to university, names in Ontario psychology to film to learn. There’s the potential to engage Tsuji. I stand by it.” registered Carleton students, complete “It’s lovely that Carleton broke the or haven’t even started it yet. segments on their research, and students with the discipline of with exams and course credit; two mold, stepped up and did it first.” develop a series of modules designed psychology, but also to promote “Bruce is a stone that will gather no MOOC models with open access to That’s why introductory psych was to promote student success in online what Carleton has to offer,” says moss,” adds fellow instructor Motz. all materials for anyone, for free; and And there’s a learning curve that the most logical jumping-off point learning. They also have an open-ac- Matthew Sorley, the undergraduate “It’s helped him create a really rich, two Flex Term models - innovative comes with doing it first—one of the when it came to applying the MOOC cess online textbook in the works. chair for the Department of interactive online system.” versions of the course that allow toughest parts is getting the word methodology to a Carleton course— Psychology. “Everybody wins.” students to “bridge” from open access, out to future students. there are no prerequisites, it’s one of “It’s important to share what we’ve This system got the kick-start it needed pay tuition and earn a university the most popular courses at most learned,” says Sorley. “Change can be In the summer edition of the CUOL in the spring of 2014, when they credit whenever they want—so both “It would be nice if people knew universities (last year alone, Carleton difficult, but everyone approached newsletter, FASS chatted with Tsuji received a $75,000 grant from the the learning and the registration can about it,” Motz says with a laugh. “The had 6,000 registrants), and 84 per cent the project with an open mind and a just before he launched Open Access Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges take place anytime, anywhere. intent was that this would be useful of students are not psychology majors. commitment to developing a work- PSYC 1001, Carleton’s first Massive and Universities to get PSYC 1001 for Ontario students from outside able system. ‘We can’t do that’ have Open Online Course (MOOC), which and PSYC 1002 online. “Universities are grounded in the [Carleton], or that high school kids “The intro course is always a pleasure quickly become dirty words.” he’d initially coined GOOP (Gradually semester system,” says Motz. “That’s could get a jump on their first year because there’s an opportunity to Open Online Psyc). Tsuji has long “Once we received the grant, it was time really the genius of this, the idea after graduation.” engage the students with the discipline been a pioneer at Carleton when it to experience panic, and eventually of breaking free of this system and while helping to smooth the transition comes to online learning, and when compose ourselves and map out the ‘bridging’ the course on your own Tsuji, Motz and Sorley also quickly to university life,” says Sorley. he reached out to his colleagues courses,” says Sorley. “The collabora- time. It makes sense because of found out that making the entire tion was intense but very rewarding. Carleton’s strong focus on meeting course accessible at once with no I just like working with these guys.” student needs.”

carleton.ca/fass 36 37 carleton.ca/fass MURRAY RICHARDSON This data will help create a baseline that Fannin, who is also a co-ordinator will be available to the community, says between the team members, says FASS: Murray – which is especially important the dataset will provide a very clear AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS since pressure for industrial development baseline of evidence for the present AND EVENTS is expected to increase, such as the and future. new Young-Davidson gold mine in the northern end of the territory. “It will allow Temagami First Nation to give potential industrial users strict He is also working in close consultation expectations of the conditions they Institute of African Studies with the community – including a expect the land to remain in,” she says. Marks the 20th Anniversary local fisher, Alex Paul, who will use “It will be a very powerful tool for the of the End of Apartheid in traditional knowledge, skills and people to use to protect their homeland.” South Africa harvesting techniques to select different types of fish from up to 15 She adds that First Nations throughout Carleton University’s Institute lakes throughout the Temagami First Canada are especially vulnerable to of African Studies organized Nation territory. the effects of industrial pollution, and a one-day conference to mark that this partnership could mark the the 20th anniversary of the end “I learned to do this from my parents beginning of helping others. of apartheid in South Africa and grandparents, and the harvesting titled, “South Africa after techniques and the way we collect “Temagami First Nation is delighted Apartheid: Critical Reflections.” the samples is how it’s always been to work with Murray and John not This conference brought done before,” says Paul. only to protect its own territory, but together leading South also in hope of building a template to African and North American Murray says there are a few different assist other First Nations to protect scholars, public figures, and aspects to the research. their territories.” commentators who provided their insight and analyses to First, he would like to monitor the situ- facilitate probing discussions ation and set up a community-owned of the past, present and future database of metal concentrations of of South Africa. Murray Richardson, assistant professor in the Department of Geography water in the fish. Speakers included Hein Marais DGES Professor and Environmental Studies at Carleton University, is researching the He says he is also interested in looking (South African author and political effects of industry on the Temagami First Nation waterways and fish. Studies Metal at the data trends, and the impacts analyst), Zine Magubane (Boston College), Dan O’Meara By Kristy Wallace that acid rain has left on metal levels and Mercury in the water ways as a result of the (Université du Québec à Montréal), Allison Goebel close proximity to smelting activities (Queen’s University), Richard Exposure in Daisy Fannin describes the Temagami First Nation’s (TFN) relationship in Sudbury. Saunders (York University), Water on to the land and water as sacred. and Linda Freeman The project also has an educational (Carleton University). Temagami That’s why Fannin, a communications officer with the TFN Band Office, component. Murray has partnered says the community is concerned about metal and mercury exposure with Tin Roof Global, a Canadian John Saul spoke about his First Nation in fish and waterways because of mining, and other industrial activities charity that works on projects in two recent books, A Flawed within their traditional territory. Canada and Uganda to help protect Freedom: Rethinking Southern and provide clean water. African Liberation and South Now, a Carleton researcher is teaming up with this community and Africa, The Present as History: an educational organization to try and solve the problem. In addition to creating a detailed From Mrs. Ples to Mandela & curriculum for the community’s Marikana (co-authored with “Mercury is one of the leading causes of fish consumption advisories students, elementary students will Patrick Bond). Irvin Jim for Ontario’s inland lakes,” says Murray Richardson, assistant professor enhance their scientific and traditional discussed current struggles in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at knowledge through field trips. in South Africa. Carleton University. “We’re hoping to use some of the Watch Video of the conference: With funding from Health Canada, Richardson is conducting research educational outreach to inspire the https://www.youtube.com/playlist in the community, located near Sudbury, Ont., from June 2014 to March next generation of water scientists, ?list=PLCA7ZS6zoRqbkDxLLZom 2015. He is studying the types of metals and amount of mercury and water technicians,” says John 81lOe12dDmWku found in aquatic life and water, and establishing a database that can be Millar, the organization’s executive used to track changes in metal contaminants from local industries and director and founder. regional pollution sources over time.

carleton.ca/fass 38 39 carleton.ca/fass PROFESSOR STUART MURRAY: PROFESSOR STUART MURRAY: INDUCTEE TO THE INAUGURAL COHORT OF THE COLLEGE

INDUCTEE TO THE INAUGURAL Both Professor Murray and Professor an Arts education can be applied to compassionate.” He sees his work as COHORT OF THE COLLEGE Sheryl Hamilton, the other Carleton pressing social issues, but he is also asking and confronting “uncomfortable scholar who has been inducted into a passionate advocate for the questions about the ways that we the College, have interdisciplinary importance of an Arts education in are complicit in wider systems that BY ERIN SHIELDS programs of research. “We represent the creation of ethical and compas- are often simply unjust, intolerable (BA WITH HONOURS IN ENGLISH, 2016) some of Carleton’s values in terms of sionate citizens. The study of literature or ultimately unliveable.” interdisciplinarity,” Murray says, “and is intrinsically interdisciplinary and I’m proud of that, that’s why I came diverse, and so it offers a multiplicity The College, operating in its outreach here. Carleton is a place where I can of perspectives. Murray argues that and advisory capacity, will provide a do the work that I do and be supported the manipulation of subjectivities platform for scholars like Murray to and encouraged.” But moreover, Murray within literature helps us to reflect have their work reach a wider and argues that the interdisciplinary critically upon our own world-views, more influential audience. With its Professor Stuart J. Murray, of Carleton’s Department of nature of his work is also “oddly and to develop a self-reflexivity mandate focused on social media, English Language and Literature, has recently been representative” of Carleton’s English without which “we’re operating in interdisciplinarity, and social justice, inducted into the inaugural cohort of The College of Department: English professors offer the dark.” “A work of literature gives the creation of the College is in itself New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. The College is courses that mobilize insights from us different terms with which to a kind of political move, Murray says: a new body of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), multiple disciplines through the study understand ourselves and what it “it both acknowledges the direction recognizing intellectual leaders in their field. It is the of literature, from traditional Western means to be a responsible and that higher education is going and it highest honour for emerging scholars in Canada. classics to Digital Studies in the caring person in relation to others.” renews a political commitment to humanities, African Studies, Ethics, engage a younger generation of Queer and Gender Studies and more, Yet the type of compassion invoked scholars to be leaders and decision- reaching into the past and into the by Murray should not be confused makers—and that’s really exciting. The College reflects the changing face of academia, with future. Murray may not be paying with getting a case of the warm and It’s daunting, but it’s exciting.” its members consisting of a new generation of diverse, attention to department lines, but it fuzzies. In Lynn Coady’s Munro Beattie social-media-wielding scholars, scientists and artists who seems that the English Department lecture this year, she talked about are working for the betterment of Canadian society. has its own fluidity, and a shared “storytelling and discomfort”—that is, Traditional RSC fellows, typically elected on the basis of concern with ethical and cultural life, how having to take on the perspective lifetime achievement, are categorized according to three making it ideal for Murray as an of others can be an uncomfortable disciplines, whereas the College gathers together younger academic home base. experience. Murray believes that this scholars from across the disciplines in order to foster kind of discomfort is vital. There is multidisciplinary dialogue and innovative approaches The College has been created at a “something about writing and reading to contemporary social issues. Murray’s first “assignment” time when the RSC is particularly about yourself, and seeing yourself was to introduce a colleague he was paired with, in interested in debates surrounding the or experiencing yourself in a different 70 words or less (and in both official languages), at the future of higher education in Canada. way—sympathizing with the villain, College’s first Annual General Meeting in November In a world that seems increasingly to say, and accounting for that—that 2014—and he was paired with a scientist who works in be turning away from the Arts, Murray makes you a better person, and by Quantum Computing. “I don’t even understand all of the offers not only an example of how better I mean more ethical, more terms,” Murray confessed, “it’s so far outside of my area of expertise! So I went and researched his work, as much as I could, to learn a little about it, and it’s fascinating.”

Murray is no stranger to interdisciplinarity. He is the Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics; his work uses literary and rhetorical methodologies to take a Fraser Taylor wins Killam prize in the Social Sciences critical look at the workings of “biopolitics” in society, or, the politics surrounding life and death. Murray describes FASS: Distinguished Department of Geography and his scholarly focus as “thinking ethically about the ways AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS Environmental Studies researcher and Fellow of the our conceptions of life and death get framed and con- AND EVENTS Royal Society of Canada Dr. Fraser Taylor received structed rhetorically through discourses, through texts, a coveted Killam Prize worth $100,000, administered through images, through emotions even, and how this by the Canada Council for the Arts. framing—how this construction of life—then gets taken up in health, in science, in criminal justice, and so on.” Prof. Taylor introduced the new discipline of “I don’t really pay attention to department lines,” cybercartography to the world, with its capacity he says. Evidently. to illuminate socio-economic issues. Congratulations to Dr. Taylor for this very prestigious award! 41 carleton.ca/fass FASS: FASS: AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND EVENTS AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND EVENTS

Chris Burn and Iain Wallace of the Department of Wallace was first introduced to the RCGS in the 1970s Geography and Environmental Studies are 2014 by Professor Gordon Merrill of Carleton’s Department Camsell Medal Winners of Geography (and a former Dean of Social Sciences), who was serving on the RCGS Board at the time. Paying Carleton Professors Chris Burn and Iain Wallace each the favour forward, Wallace introduced Prof. Burn to received 2014 Camsell Medals from the Royal Canadian the Society in 1995. Geographical Society (RCGS) in recognition of their outstanding service to the Society. Chris Burn, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, has been involved with the Society for 20 For the last 31 years, Iain Wallace, Professor Emeritus, years. He has served on the Research Grants Committee Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, (also serving as its Chair), the Policy & Planning Committee served the Society in a number of capacities. He was a and the Nominating Committee (also serving as its Chair). member of the Research Grants Committee (also serving Burn was on the Board of Governors from 2001 to as its Chair), the Awards Committee, the Policy & Planning 2009, and served on the Executive as the Society’s Committee and the Editorial Advisory Committee. In Vice-President from 2005 to 2009. addition, he served on the Board of Governors from 1995 to 2000 and again from 2005 to 2010. Congrats to Profs. Wallace and Burn on their exceptional and well-deserved honours!

Music Professor Jesse Stewart Inducted into Order of Ottawa FASS and the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival – The Necessary War with The Department of History’s Tim Cook Carleton’s Jesse Stewart, Associate Professor of Music FASS and the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival celebrated the launch of in the School for Studies in Art Tim Cook’s The Necessary War Volume One. One of Canada’s leading war and Culture and Juno-winning historians, Professor Cook (Canadian War Museum and Carleton University’s musician, was among 15 local Department of History) ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume residents inducted into the story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing, sacrifice and endurance. Order of Ottawa at a ceremony at City Hall in November 2014.

As part of the ceremony, Stewart performed alongside Korean master percussionist JESSE STEWART PHOTOGRAPHED BY TONY FOUHSE Dong-Won Kim. carleton.ca/fass 42 43 carleton.ca/fass Carleton University Celebrated Liszt with a FASS: Three-Day Symposium in Collaboration with Embassies of Italy and Chile

AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND EVENTS Carleton University held a “Celebrating Liszt” weekend in the Fall of 2014.

Weekend festivities included a variety of concerts featuring a diverse group of high-profile musicians – all in the name of celebrating the celebrated 19th century composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist, Leading Expert in Global Contemporary Art Terry Smith we are in a moment of “contemporaneity,” which denotes Franz Liszt. Assumed a Sotheby’s Residency at Carleton both the contemporary moment and the inescapable feeling that we are connected to others on this planet. Carleton Music presented Liszt’s chamber arrangement Carleton University welcomed internationally renowned of the Dante Symphony in a concert hosted by CBC’s contemporary art expert Terry Smith to campus as he During a series of events at Carleton, he discussed the Laurence Wall, and co-sponsored by the Italian assumed the inaugural Sotheby’s Residency in Curatorial key ideas underlying his widely read and often controversial Embassy, the Dante Alighieri Society, the Italian Studies. books, including What is Contemporary Art?; Contemporary Cultural Institute, the International Week of the Art: World Currents; and Thinking Contemporary Curating. Italian Language and Air Canada. Terry Smith is a leading voice in global contemporary art, and has been a major force in arguing for the importance Smith also led two workshops and presented a Performers included virtuoso pianists Mauro Bertoli of thinking about contemporary art in a global way. Smith keynote lecture at the National Gallery of Canada. and Jamie Parker; harpist Caroline Leondardelli; argues that given the planetary challenges of climate Italian actor Luciano Bertoli; and the Carleton change and the interconnectivity of the internet and media, Women’s Chorus directed by Order of Canada and Carleton University Honorary Doctorate recipient, Barbara Clark. Bonaventura Genelli’s Dante Divina Commedia sketches were projected during the performance, as per Liszt’s original plan.

Hailed by Chilean newspaper El Mercurio as “the pianistic hope for the new generation,” internationally renowned Mahani Teave, a young virtuoso pianist from Easter Island (Chile) performed an exhilarating recital of works by Chopin and Liszt at the Kailash Mital Theatre in a concert co-sponsored by Carleton University and the Chilean Embassy. Teave has been touring the world to promote the establishment of Easter Island’s first music school.

Internationally renowned Liszt scholars who Sylvie Frigon appointed to the Joint Chair in presented papers at a Symposium titled “Liszt, His Women’s Studies at Carleton University & the Circle, and the Dante Symphony” included Michael University of Ottawa Saffle (USA); Manuel Pinto Deniz Silva (Portugal); Evangelia Mitsopoulou (Greece); and Carleton’s The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences was own James Deaville. pleased to announce that Professor Sylvie Frigon has been named to the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. Frigon will develop a research program and an array of academic activities that will be engaging and of the utmost pertinence.

As the incumbent of the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Professor Frigon’s responsibilities include teaching, engaging in research and participating in appropriate committees and events on both campuses. She also acts as a resource person on women’s issues and feminist research at both universities. Her role involves contact with local, regional, national and international feminist educational and community- based organizations.

45 carleton.ca/fass CU IN THE CITY Learn off campus with FASS

FASSen your seatbelts, The Faculty of Arts and Social Dr. Davies will conduct his lecture “Why We Find Sciences is leaving campus and coming to CU in the City! Things Interesting.”

CU in the City is a popular series of talks that shares invigorating FASS research in communities across Canada. Thursday May 21, 2015 (6:00 pm Reception, 7:00 pm Lecture)

Each CU in the City event features a Carleton faculty DR. OSBORNE DELIVERS A SPEECH AT THE member or student discussing a stimulating and In this talk, Dr. Davies will discuss the science behind POWER OF THE ARTS NATIONAL FORUM 2014 accessible topic. why some things seem to resonate with our minds and others do not. Why do we get hooked on a hockey game, An engaging question and answer session follows or to a novel? Why do some religious stories seem so mean- each lecture. Drinks and snacks are always served. ingful? Drawing from research from psychology, biology, THE JOHN OSBORNE computer science, and more, Davies will explain the The CU in the City series provides opportunities for underlying psychological traits human beings have that FASS faculty, students, alumni, and community members serve as the foundation for all things compelling. to engage with one another in an off-campus setting. FASS STUDENT TRAVEL BURSARY

You are invited to come learn and chat with FASS at Register Online at: CU in the City – Toronto at The Arts & Letters Club http://events.carleton.ca/cu-in-the-city-toronto/ of Toronto (14 Elm Street) with Dr. Jim Davies of the By the end of June, this year, Dr. John Osborne will This way of honouring John’s tenure as Dean is Institute of Cognitive Science and Director of the DR. JIM DAVIES, be stepping down as Dean of the Faculty of Arts particularly apt because he has been an adamant ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Science of Imagination Laboratory. INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE and Social Sciences, after having served two terms—10 supporter of various endeavours developed at Carleton, SCIENCE AT CARLETON years—in this role. and FASS in particular, to encourage students to explore UNIVERSITY the world through their studies at Carleton. For instance, Thanks to his unfailing commitment to fostering a as can be read in this and past issues of FASSinate, many culture of collegiality, his championing for the Arts and students have been able to participate in the Alternative the Social Sciences (during times when we’ve needed Spring Break program or register in FASS credit courses it!), and his compassionate support of a broad range of taught in other parts of the world (Québec City, Italy, research and teaching initiatives, John has been widely Greece, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mexico, Israel etc) thanks cherished by faculty, professional services staff and to John’s support and encouragement for these programs. students, from all across FASS. John has shared with many of us the fact that it was his It would be a truism to say that FASS today is a own experience, travelling to Italy as an undergraduate different entity than it was 10 years ago, but the student at Carleton, that helped him discover his lifelong shape our faculty presently takes is in large part passion not only for Italian medieval art and architecture, due to John’s leadership and vision. but also his commitment to learning and education. We thus felt that this travel bursary was a most appropriate Although John is not retiring from Carleton, and we do way to remember his 10 years as Dean of FASS. look forward to having him as a faculty colleague who is cross-appointed in the School for Studies in Art and Culture If you are interested in donating to the John Osborne (Art History) and the College of the Humanites, faculty FASS Student Travel Bursary to afford more current and and staff were adamant in wanting to recognize all that future students an opportunity to partake in some of he has done for us throughout his time as Dean of FASS. these life-shaping study-travel experiences, please visit:

A new project is being launched to raise funds for the http://forms.carleton.ca/advancement/giving-give/ and select John Osborne FASS Student Travel Bursary that will aid the John Osborne FASS Student Travel Fund. students travelling on Carleton-related trips. Thank you, John!

47 carleton.ca/fass CU IN THE CITY: TORONTO Why We Find Things Interesting BY DR. JIM DAVIES

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