You are invited to the Ottawa International Writers festival! The spring 2013 edition of the Ottawa International Writers Festival runs from Thursday April 25 to Tuesday, April 30 at a variety of locations. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has arranged that Carleton students need only show their student ID (subject of course to ... more
In 1556 a Frenchman by the name of Arnaud Du Tilh entered the town of Artigat claiming to be Martin Guerre, who had absented himself from the region eight years earlier to escape an accusation of theft. The impostor Du Tilh spent many months researching the town and its inhabitants before announcing his presence in ... more
Are you an aspiring writer? A first-year undergraduate student at Carleton? Have you ever written something that you have dreamed of publishing? Be it prose or poetry, we at The Coffee Shop Resume are looking for your submissions to be published in our next issue. We are accepting articles, poems, short stories, anything and everything, ... more
In his book Unemployment and Government (2000), Carleton professor William Walters observes that in our current historical moment, unemployment has come to seem “obvious, mundane,” “self-evident”––the “eternal opposite of ‘work’” (1). How did this come to be, how might we understand this statement in relation to Canada, and what role does cultural activity play in ... more
Professor and Chair in the Department of English, Paul Keen will deliver the 2013 edition of the Davidson Dunton Research Lecture. Established in 1983, the Davidson Dunton Research Lecture enables distinguished Carleton University faculty scholars to share their research findings with the academic community and the general public. This lecture is named for Carleton’s ... more
When I was young – say, around eight or nine – I had terrible insomnia. I wasn’t the kind of elastic kid that stretches and snaps out of their parents’ grip, rubber balling down the hall trailing a marker along the now graffitied wall. But I did drive my mom and dad mad by being ... more
There is accounting, and then there is accountability–accountability understood in terms of legal obligations and democratic answerability. Alanis Obomsawin’s new documentary on Attawapiskat re-tells the story of the housing crisis in this James Bay Cree community through footage from House of Commons debates, interviews with residents and with Chief Theresa Spence, analysis of treaty obligations ... more
A talk by David L. Clark Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University Immanuel Kant’s last texts move from the labour of critique to more palpably social and political concerns. But they do so in a time that is characterized by the intensification of militarism and armed conflict. As Kant notes in his ... more
The holidays have just rolled past and for most of us that means the carnival of all our extended family have made the rounds as well. And although I don’t want to get into too much personal detail here, I’m positive that every English major has had a similar conversation (at least once) with a ... more
The dumpster, all tumored with lazily tossed garbage bags, jittered from side to side, as if prepping to explode. A few feet from its open hatch, I stood holding a little nine-inch TV set, with power cord looped round its slightly askew bunny ears. “Come on, Dave, this is disgusting. Just get an extension from ... more
