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Friday, January 27, 2023

2023 SAH International Conference

The Society of Architectural Historians, in partnership with Carleton AAH, will host its 76th Annual International Conference in person in Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 12–16, 2023. SAH members from around the world will convene at the Hôtel Bonaventure Montréal to share new research on the history of the built environment. The program... More

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Small Modernisms Symposium (May 12-13)

On May 12-13 at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, we will be hosting “Small Modernisms,” a symposium dedicated to exploring the role of the built environment in shaping Canadian society in the decades following the Second World War. Through an emphasis on the small-scale and intimate, the paper presentations and architectural walking... More

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Workshop: Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art

“Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art: Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks” seeks to contribute to the decolonization of universalized historiographic frameworks and temporal concepts of art through combinations of Western critique and epistemological research into art’s multiple relations to time and... More

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship Lecture: Claire Farago

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture is excited to announce the upcoming lecture by Professor Claire Farago. Professor Farago is an Art Historian and Professor Emerita at University of Colorado Boulder specializing in Early Modern art, theory, and criticism, as well as museum and collecting practices. Her talk... More

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Artist Talk: Olivia Johnston and Kathryn Desplanque

Join Carleton graduates Olivia Johnston and Kathryn Desplanque on Thursday, December 2nd for a talk entitled Embodying Saintly Gestures. Photographer and art historian Olivia Johnston's series of saints images makes use of the visual language applied to those most revered in Christian devotional objects of centuries past to contemporary... More

Friday, February 20, 2015

Culture Hub Workshop

Indigenizing the Gallery There will be a round-table discussion on Friday, February 27th from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM at the Carleton University Art Gallery in St. Patrick’s Building. Please join us, admission is free and a small reception will follow. Special guests include: Greg Hill and Christine Lalonde from the National Gallery of... More

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Friends of Art History March Meeting

Americanization of a Small Nation Film Culture? The Case of Tancred Ibsen and Norway by Gunnar Iversen, Professor, Film and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Visiting Scholar, SSAC, Carleton University. Friday, March 13, 2:30 p.m., 412 St. Patrick’s Building. Full details and abstract at the Friend's... More

Friday, February 6, 2015

Was Deco Global?

A workshop on Multiple Modernities With Special Guests: Swati Chattopadhyay, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara; Bridget Elliott, Department of Visual Arts, Western University; Tag Gronberg, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck University of London. February 9, 11:30-2:30, ICSLAC, 201D St. Patrick’s... More

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Friends of Art History – Jan 23

Friends of Art History Visual Culture Series presents “Two artists walk into an archive: decolonizing a colonizing space” by Stacy Ernst, PhD Candidate, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University. This talk will address interventions into the colonial archive by Anishinaabe artist Carl Beam (1943 –... More

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Fall Flavours Bake Sale!

Be sure to bring some cash and stop by the fourth floor of the St. Patrick's Building on Wednesday, October 8th, for some delicious baked goods with all your favourite fall flavours! Organized by the Art History Graduate Students Society, 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. All proceeds go to funding the Art History Graduate... More