Teaching “Ideas and Culture:Making Documentary History” in the Department of History, Carleton University.

Abstract

As a documentary filmmaker of some forty-years I’ve not had reason – until recently – to pay attention to academic concerns and anxiety about the future of history, the divisions within the discipline, and the discussions about the loss of a public audience. While I do have a degree in history and political science, it is from a university with such a poor academic reputation that its name has been thankfully erased from memory, but for the occasional wickedly sardonic references made by Mordecai Richler.