Two Carleton community members will be featured in the 2019 spring program of the Ottawa Society for the Arts and Sciences (OSFAS). Prof. Matthew Bellamy of the Department of History and Carleton University Past-President Richard Van Loon will deliver engaging lectures hosted by OSFAS.
Media are invited to attend the events.
Please, Don’t Drink and Drive: Labatt’s Campaign to Hold Drinking Drivers Accountable in the Age of Neoliberalism
When: Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 7 p.m.
Where: Auditorium (lower level), Ottawa Public Library Main Branch, 120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa
Bellamy is the foremost authority on the history of brewing in Canada and has published widely on the subject. In 2015, Maclean’s magazine called Bellamy’s class the Canadian Brewing Industry one of Canada’s “cool courses”. In 2009, he was a finalist in TVO’s Big Ideas Best Lecturer Competition.
Hard Travel: 6000 years up the Ottawa River and in to the West
When: Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 7 p.m.
Where: Auditorium (lower level), Ottawa Public Library Main Branch, 120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa
For more than 6000 years, the St. Lawrence and Ottawa valleys were the main highways leading to the interior of North America. Van Loon’s talk will focus on the travellers and traders who used the Ottawa River from the end of the last ice age to the “modern” era, which started in the mid-19th century.
About the Ottawa Society for the Arts and Sciences
The OSFAS provides a forum for those who work in the arts and sciences, or related areas, to interact with one another, exchange ideas and explore the potential of co-operative enterprises. The society hosts panel debates and lectures on topics that include areas of current interest to the arts and sciences, or topics that relate to major political, social and cultural questions.
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Thursday, April 11, 2019 in Media Advisories
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