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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Cultural Mediations Alumnus Dr. Matthew Croombs presents “Questions of Militant Cinema: René Vautier and the Anti-colonial Combat Film”

The Institute of African Studies presents a talk entitled “Questions of Militant Cinema: René Vautier and the Anti-colonial Combat Film” by Matthew Croombs, University of Toronto (and a Cultural Mediations PhD alumnus) on April 30, 2014 in Room 433 Paterson Hall from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. For more information, see the African Studies... More

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Art and Trauma, A Cultural Transfers Workshop

The Cultural Transfers workshop series presents Art and Trauma on Wednesday, March 26th at the Carleton University Art Gallery. Johnny El-Alam (Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate) and Peter Hodgins (Assistant Professor, Canadian Studies & ICSLAC) will present on Wednesday, March 26, 2014.  Johnny El-Alam will present "Echoes of Trauma Theory... More

Monday, February 24, 2014

Upcoming Cultural Transfers Workshops – Feb 26 & March 26

The Cultural Transfers Workshop Series continues with the following two presentations: February 26, 2014, 4:00 to 5:30 pm Stacy Ernst (Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate) and Nathan Flis (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School for Studies in Art & Culture) on Wednesday February 26th at the Carleton University Art Gallery.  Stacy Ernst will present... More

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Cultural Mediations Student Symposium

Please join us for the Second Installment of the 3rd year Student Symposium where students present their research projects on Friday February 14th. We will open with coffee at 9:30 and the first presentation will start at... More

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Rawi Hage is coming to Carleton

The Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) is presenting a conversation with the award winning Lebanese-Canadian author, Rawi Hage, to Carleton. He will be at Carleton on Friday, February 7th, the talk starts at 1 pm, in 2017 DT, and will be followed by a reception. Rawi Hage is a fascinating author whose literary... More

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Congratulations to ICSLAC Alumnus Dr. Alex Wetmore on the release of his book

Dr. Alex Wetmore, Alumnus of the PhD in Cultural Mediations (2009) has recently published a book with Palgrave Macmillan based on his doctoral dissertation. Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Centure Literature: Touching Fiction was released in November. Congratulations Alex from all of... More

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Balancing a Thesis With a Full-Time Job for a PhD in Cultural Mediations

Heather Igloliorte will graduate with her PhD in Cultural Mediations on November 9th - she was interviewed recently on the challenges of balancing completion of her thesis with a full-time Assistant Professor position at Concordia University.  Congratulations Heather! You can read the full article... More

Friday, September 20, 2013

Fellowship Awarded to Professor Emeritus A. Trevor Tolley

Professor Emeritus A. Trevor Tolley, who was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Carleton and the Chair of the Comparative Literature Department, has been awarded a fellowship at the Harry Ransom Centre at The University of Texas at Austin to work on his study of the great British editor, John Lehmann. Lehmann... More

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Johnny El-Alam, Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Selected for SSHRC Storytellers Challenge

Congratulations to Johnny El-Alam, 2nd year PhD candidate in Visual Culture who was recently selected for the SSHRC Storytellers Challenge!  Johnny is currently studying relations between art, memory, war, trauma and the nation. The case study that he submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) examined Canadian... More

Friday, February 15, 2013

Gutai: Splendid Playground review by the NY Times

A new exhibition at the Guggenheim, “Gutai: Splendid Playground” curated by Carleton Art History professor Ming Tiampo is on display until May 8th.  Read the NY Times review... More

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Cultural Mediations Students Receive Carleton Awards

Congratulations to Danielle Wiley, who was awarded the Governor General's Medal for exceptional work at the graduate level at the Convocation Ceremony on November 10, 2012.  This award is given annually to the top graduate student at Carleton! Congratulations also to Paul Jasen, who will receive a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement... More

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