Month: April 2016

CNHH in Conversation with Dr. James Orbinski

by Christine Chisholm and Will Tait

On March 24, 2016 Dr. James Orbinski, former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières, scholar of global health and practicing physician was invited by Carleton University’s Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS) to present the keynote lecture for the official launch of the program. Dr. Chris Brown, director of BGInS, kindly arranged for a meeting with Orbinski before the lecture with CNHH members Dr. Dominique Marshall and PhD candidates Christine Chisholm and Will Tait from Carleton’s Department of History.

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“Eye-opening if not revelatory”: Teaching and Learning Humanitarian History

by Sarah Glassford

 

Before taking this course I thought that humanitarianism was just

a nice way of asking for money.  You donate and someone tries

to solve a problem.  But through the readings and the emergency

relief assignment/exercise it has become clear that the job is less

straightforward than that.       – Haley K.

 

Those of us who research and write in the area of humanitarian history are well aware of the complexities of aid, both on the giving and receiving ends of the equation.  But when we have a chance to teach that history, what preconceptions do our students bring to the classroom, and what do they take away with them at the end of the course? Continue reading