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Friday, November 15, 2024

Congratulations Dr. Ty Hall!

Congratulations to Dr. Ty Hall who convocated on November 9, 2024 after successfully defending his dissertation, titled, A History of Hip Hop in Ottawa and Ottawa in Hip Hop. The project was supervised by Dr. Jesse Stewart (ICSLAC and Music, Carleton University). Visit Dr. Hall’s profile for more information on his research.... More

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Philip Kaisary, From Havana to Hollywood, Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary

Please join us on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 (venue and time TBA) to celebrate the release of Philip Kaisary’s new book, From Havana to Hollywood. Philip Kaisary is the current holder of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations and will be in conversation with Adrian Harewood, Stacy Douglas and Aubrey Anable. Additional... More

Monday, June 24, 2024

CHARACTERS: A (mostly) One-Person Show by Jesse Stewart

June 27-29, 2024 7:30 Thursday-Saturday Join award-winning interdisciplinary artist Jesse Stewart for a one-person show that weaves together storytelling and music to celebrate individuals who have left an indelible mark on the playwright’s life. With a blend of humour, emotion, and introspection, each character comes to life through engaging... More

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

2024 Scaffold CFP—The Power of Horror Compels You: Exploring Historic and Modern Iterations of Horror

Jack Halberstam argued of Bram Stoker’s seminal horror text that “Dracula is otherness itself.”In doing so, he contextualized the novel’s configuration of the period’s social anxieties toward sexuality, modernity, and antisemitism through the vampire figure. Further, Halberstam suggests that “Dracula is indeed not simply a monster, but... More

Thursday, April 4, 2024

Sarah Phillips Casteel, Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art Release

Please join us on Thursday, April 11, 2024 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm EST to celebrate the release of Sarah Phillips Casteel’s new book, Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art. Phillips Casteel will be in conversation with Aboubakar Sanogo and the conversation will be moderated by Ming Tiampo. The event will... More

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Marino on the successful defence of her doctoral dissertation!

Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Jessica Marino successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Holocaust Memory, Aesthetics and the Dictatorships of the Southern Cone of Latin America: Interconnecting Memories and Traumas. Congratulations from all of us at ICSLAC, Dr. Marino! More can be read here about Jessica’s work and... More

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Norval Morrisseau Exhibit Brings Healing Art to Carleton

This fall at Carleton University's Art Gallery (CUAG) you can visit Norval Morrisseau: Medicine Currents which showcases an exclusive collection of Morrisseau’s paintings, drawings and objects, co-curated by Carmen Robertson (Art and Architectural History/ ICSLAC / IIS) and Danielle Printup, CUAG’s Indigenous cultural engagement coordinator.... More

Monday, October 2, 2023

New Book on Toronto’s Casa Loma Co-Edited by Michael Windover

Professor Michael Windover’s book Casa Loma: Millionaires, Medievalism, and Modernity in Toronto’s Gilded Age, co-edited with Matthew M. Reeve, was recently released by McGill-Queen’s University Press. From the publisher: Leading architect E.J. Lennox designed Casa Loma for the flamboyant Sir Henry Pellatt and Mary, Lady Pellatt as an... More

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Celebrating the Retirement of Ruth B. Phillips

https://forruth.hypotheses.org/   In honour of our esteemed colleague Ruth B. Phillips, her years of knowledge production and committed service, members from the departments of Art and Architecture History, the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts and Culture and other former collaborators pay tribute to Dr. Ruth B. Phillips... More

Saturday, November 12, 2022

On “Three Songs”: In Conversation with Laura Taler

  From September 25th-December 18, 2022, the Carleton University Art Gallery features the video installation exhibition "Three Songs" by Laura Taler (curated by Heather Anderson) On Tuesday, November 22nd, 2023, at 1:30 PM, the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts and Culture and the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship... More

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Amy Bruce

Some warm congratulations to Amy Bruce, PhD candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, on the successful oral defence of her doctoral dissertation! Amy's project is entitled Resistivity in Contemporary Art Biennials: A Synchronic Analysis. Much gratitude to her supervisors, Dr. Ming Tiampo and Dr. Birgit... More

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Nicola Oddy

Some warm congratulations to Nicola Oddy, PhD candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, on the successful oral defence of her doctoral dissertation! Nicola's project, Seeking Awareness of Our Selves and the Environment through Vocal Improvisation in The Singing Field, is detailed on her graduate profile. Much gratitude to her supervisor, Dr.... More

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