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July 28, 2021

Carleton Professor Featured in Netflix’s How to Become a Tyrant

Early on, the Netflix series How to Become a Tyrant posits that history’s most infamous tyrants followed a similar playbook—a series of tactics used to achieve unimaginable power. It’s a playbook Prof. Waller Newell has... More

January 29, 2021

What Was Lost: Carleton Commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day

“If you want to learn about the Holocaust, you have to have to start understanding what you lost,” says photographer Tal Schwartz, the researcher-protagonist of the documentary Glass Negatives. “This is, for me, what this... More

March 4, 2019

Kagiso Lesego Molope’s Place in Canadian Literature

Positive reviews can be very important to writers. When you work in a void, critical praise in the press validates all those hours of isolation and creative angst. But for Kagiso Lesego Molope, a Film... More

August 29, 2018

Three Carleton Student Projects in the Top 10 of the TVO 2018 Short Doc Contest

Carleton University journalism students made three of the top 10 films in the running for TVO 2018 Short Doc Contest. TVOntario is asking the public to vote for their favourite 2018 Short Doc finalist to... More

February 27, 2018

Carleton Grad Wins BAFTA, Eyes Oscar

UPDATE: Production designer and architecture grad, Paul Austerberry, (BArch/89) picked up an Oscar on Sunday, March 4. Austerberry, who was also honoured at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards last month, won the... More

November 14, 2017

Casablanca Screening: Here’s Looking at 75 Years, Kid

Carleton’s Film Studies program will screen Casablanca on Nov. 26 2017 as the university’s 75th anniversary celebrations draws to a close.

July 7, 2017

Preserving African Cinema

Aboubakar Sanogo is a scholar of African cinema and works for the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI), but it took him years to see one of the major films from the continent: Med Hondo’s... More

June 6, 2017

Mistissini Healing Screens at DocNow Festival in Toronto

The seed of an idea for Mistissini Healing came on a summer’s day a few years ago. Carleton University’s Stephanie Vizi, BJ/14 (Journalism and African Studies) was spending time in northern Quebec, working as a... More

February 27, 2017

Zacharias Kunuk Shares Intimate Picture of the North

Carleton University’s Faculty of Public Affairs to host film screening March 2 at Mayfair Theatre In a landscape of stone, snow and cold water, the men stand listening to an Elder tell of how he... More

January 27, 2017

Arctic Greenhouse

Arctic Greenhouse, a documentary produced by Prof. Claudia Schröder-Adams in Carleton University’s Department of Earth Sciences, premiered at two sold-out screenings at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The 55-minute film, shown on Thursday, Jan. 26,... More

January 26, 2017

Encountering Democracy

In collaboration with the Ottawa Art Gallery and Citizens Academy, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Jacqueline Kennelly and her students recently had the opportunity to host a public screening of the results... More

August 11, 2016

Daring to Dream Big

When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, they often reflect on their life and ask whether they're spending their days in a meaningful way. Last March, in the busy lead-up to the launch of... More