On the occasion of International Education Week, Carleton’s Oxfam Club has a table in Carleton’s Galleria (University Centre).

I will show my slides and talk about Oxfam in Canada since 1962, from 11:30 to  12:30.

(On the left, yhis is one of the first publicity of Oxfam in Canada, inserted in the Readers Digest of 1964 by Lynn Ten Kate, who visited Canada from Oxford in 1963-4 for 7 months, and whom I interviewed two years ago.)

See http://www.vahs.org.uk/2013/11/changes-and-continuities-in-the-history-of-emergency-aid/

On 30 October 2013, the first Canadian Humanitarian Conference was hosted in Ottawa by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The 9 year-old Humanitarian Coalition organised the conference on ‘The Future of Humanitarian Response: Towards More Effective, Accountable and Innovative Approaches’. We are pleased to be able to share the reflections on this gathering of Professor Dominique Marshall, Chair of History at Carleton University.

Registration: Please register online or by pasting the following URL in your browser.

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This is a complimentary event however seating is limited so please register quickly.

If you have any questions please contact Holly Nichol.

Holly Nichol

Graduate Program Administrator

In the Winter of 2013, I helped hosting the exhibition on the history of Voice of Women.  To launch the event, we welcomed a veteran pacifist and the curator of the Peace Exhibition at the War Museum in the summer of 2013.  In the months that followed, the Department helped VOW to digitize its collection of audio tapes, thanks to the volunteer work of PhD candidate Nicole Marion.

Poster of the exhibition and panel on the history of 60 years old pacifist group, Voice of Women.

In the Winter of 2011, I helped bring from Germany an exhibition on the individuals incarcerated in the concentration camp of Dachau, called Names without Numbers.

I am coordinating the 2013-14  Brown Bag Series of lectures of the Institute of African Studies, as my responsibility as a member of their board.  This year, on two occasions, graduate students are invited to one to one master classes.

I have written an article for the Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association (Winter 2012) , pp. 16-20, on the history of Africa made in Canada, and the Canadian Association of African Studies.

I am coordinating the rolling series of papers on Disability Studies, to present work done at Carleton.  I am also helping to supervise the research on technologies of disability in Canada.  the Group on Disability Studies is preparing a new program to be offered soon at Carleton.  The next scheduled event is

Friday January 17 2014, 12:30 – 2:00   Roy Hanes, Carleton University, Social Work, “The Rise of the Crippled Child Saving Movement in Canada: The Case Example of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children 1920- 1940”, History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall, in conjunction with the Friday Occasions of the Department of History.

I wrote a short review of the work done by historians of disability and the Canadian Disability Studies Association for the Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association of May 2013.

I am part of a team of colleagues who supervise the collection of documents and oral histories towards the making of histories of the department which will be posted online shortly.  So far we  have interviewed Naomi Griffiths, Peter King, John Taylor and David Farr.

From February 2014, honour student Devin Cross will be  preparing interviews with alumni and retired professors.

Do write a comment or email me if you have anything you would like to share.

Naomi Griffiths, retired Professor of European, Acadian and Women’s history, interviewed by honour’s research assistant Katie Menendez, summer 2013