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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

A Closer Look at Contemporary Chinese Art’ with Paul Gladston

On Wednesday, March 27, 2019, the Ottawa Art Gallery hosted a lecture given by Paul Gladston on ‘A Closer Look at Contemporary Chinese Art’. During the last four decades, contemporary Chinese art has become increasingly prominent on the international stage. Despite a series of high-profile exhibitions worldwide since the late 1980s and the... More

Monday, March 25, 2019

Festival of Life for Prof. Pius Adesanmi – March 26

In celebration of our beloved colleague, mentor, teacher and friend, Prof. Pius Adesanmi, Carleton University, along with the Institute of African Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of French, are holding a Festival of Life at the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper St, Ottawa, ON, K2P 0G8) on Tuesday, March 26,... More

Saturday, June 9, 2018

CTCA at Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) 2018

CTCA co-founder Ming Tiampo, research associate Alice Ming Wai Jim (Concordia University), and members Birgit Hopfener, Rebecca Dolgoy, and Victoria Nolte are participating in the annual meeting of the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX), an inter-institutional project organized by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University.... More

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Introducing The Friday Table

The CTCA Graduate Steering Committee is pleased to introduce The Friday Table, a series of weekly events aimed at facilitating community and collegiality. In Fall 2017 we ran pilot sessions of this project that demonstrated to us the benefits of regular meetings where we could engage with ideas that might not fall within the immediate... More

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Jin-me Yoon’s video project, Long View available online

At the Rethinking Canada 150 conference this past April, keynote speaker Jin-me Yoon focused on terms of belonging, articulating the many ways in which Asia and Canada are entangled. Examining her body of work, Yoon explained her shift from thinking about diasporic identity in terms of displacement in a settler colonial context (as she... More

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Cynthia McLeod featured on History Watch podcast

Cynthia McLeod featured on History Watch podcast Novelist and recent CTCA guest speaker Cynthia McLeod is featured on the latest episode of History Watch, a podcast hosted by Dr. Audra Diptee. Take a listen below: In this podcast, McLeod, who specializes in historical fiction, and Dr. Diptee discuss the relationship between history and literature,... More

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Aesthetic Practices as Indigenous Actions

Aesthetic Practices as Indigenous Actions: Public Lecture and Workshop by Dr. Jolene Rickard The Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) is pleased to announce the visit of Dr. Jolene Rickard, celebrated and innovative art historian, artist, and professor. Dr. Rickard’s artistic and academic work explores issues of indigeneity within a... More

Monday, November 7, 2016

CTCA hosts Surinamese novelist Cynthia McLeod

The Cost of Sugar: Talk and Film Screening by Surinamese novelist Cynthia McLeod CTCA (Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis) is pleased to invite you to several events featuring internationally-renowned novelist and activist Cynthia McLeod who will share her creative and scholarly work on the Dutch Caribbean and the history of slavery in her... More

Thursday, October 18, 2012

CTCA’s Ming Tiampo speaks at the first Cultural Transfers Workshop of the 2012-2013 series

Bodies at War, Bodies at Peace: Rethinking Group Identity in Postwar Japan with Bianca Briciu and Ming Tiampo When: October 16, 2012 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Location: St Patricks Room: 201D Event contact: Dawn Schmidt Email contact: Dawn_Schmidt@Carleton.ca Phone contact: 613-520-2177 Abstracts for this workshop can be viewed here. Cultural... More

Monday, March 5, 2012

TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY [MARCH 23-29, 2012]

The Department of History at Carleton University welcomes... The Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Distinguished Visitor Dr. Pierre-Yves Saunier (CNRS, Research Group IRICE, Paris) THREE PUBLIC EVENTS Colloquia on digital history and the history of Nursing Friday March 23, all day Arts Faculty Lounge, DT 2017 Bring Your Document With You: the... More

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

BLACK ATLANTIC CROSSINGS Cultural Transfers Speakers Series January 26 2012

Cultural Transfers Workshop Series Please join us for the next workshop in the Cultural Transfers Workshop Series entitled Black Atlantic Crossings in Music and Film with Matthew Rushton (ICSLAC PhD candidate) and Pius Adesamni (English Dept., Carleton University) on Jan. 26 at 4 p.m. in Room 201D St. Patrick's Building. Please find the Abstracts... More

Thursday, November 17, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS: Welcoming Strangers, an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, April 27, 2012, London, UK

Call for papers: WELCOMING STRANGERS (Download .pdf) An international, interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, 27 April 2012 Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London Keynote speakers: Professor Robin Cohen (Emeritus Professor and Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme-funded Oxford Diasporas Programme,... More

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