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Monday, March 18, 2024

Talk & Book Launch – Andrew Gayed, Queer World Making: Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art

The Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) presents Talk & Book Launch: Andrew Gayed, Queer World Making: Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art on Thursday, March 21, 2024 6:30 pm – 8pm at Club SAW (67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa) . Doors open at 6pm, Free event organized by the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis... More

Friday, March 1, 2024

2024 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship (RMPP) Lecture by Dr. Auritro Majumder

For the 2024 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship (RMPP) Lecture, Dr. Philip Kaisary welcomes Dr. Auritro Majumder, University of Houston, for his talk entitled “(Third) World Literature and Decolonization: Humanist Internationalism and Contemporary Literary Studies." Please join us on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024, in Patterson 303. Doors... More

Monday, February 12, 2024

Congratulations Dr. Jessica Marino!

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Marino on the successful December 6th, 2024 defence of her dissertation, titled, Holocaust Memory, Aesthetics and the Dictatorships of the Southern Cone of Latin America: Interconnecting Memories and Traumas. The project was supervised by Dr. Sarah Casteel (ICSLAC, Carleton University). Visit Dr. Marino’s profile... More

Monday, February 12, 2024

Congratulations Dr. Anna Paluch!

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Paluch on the successful January 15, 2024, defence of her dissertation, titled, From Turtle Island to Vistula’s Shores: Indigenous North American and Eastern European Futurisms in Dialogue. The project was supervised by Dr. Allan Ryan (ICSLAC, Carleton University). Visit Dr. Paluch’s profile for more information on... More

Monday, February 12, 2024

Congratulations to Sarah Phillips Casteel on the release of her new book, Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art!

In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the... More

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Brand new to the SUNY Press: Dr. Philip Kaisary’s book, From Havana to Hollywood

From Havana to Hollywood examines the presence or absence of Black resistance to slavery in feature films produced in either Havana or Hollywood—including Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn!, neglected masterpieces by Cuban auteurs Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Sergio Giral, and Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave. Philip Kaisary argues that,... More

Friday, January 12, 2024

Scaffold: Journal for the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts and Culture Vol. 1 No. 1

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): The Cultural Inbetween: Exploring Distinctions Between Popular, High, and Low Culture 2023-12-22 With this inaugural issue, we are pleased to launch an exciting new era for the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) community! Scaffold: the Journal for the Institute for Comparative Studies in... More

Friday, January 12, 2024

Interface 2024 Call for Papers

The Scholarly In-Between: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Culture, Literature, and the Humanities Virtual Conference Date: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 Call for Papers Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2024 This one-day Zoom conference aims to explore the challenges, rewards and necessities of working between fields, and the ways in which such an... More

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Dr. Heather Igloliorte joins the University of Victoria as the inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices

ICSLAC alum and esteemed Indigenous art historian and curator, Dr. Heather Igloliorte, has been appointed to the University of Victoria as the first Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices. This position, with $8-million funding from the Canada Excellence Research Chairs program, is part of a... More

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Gemey Kelly on the successful defence of her doctoral dissertation!

Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Gemey Kelly successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Place and Standing in Canadian Art: Jack Humphrey and the Discourses of Regionalism, 1930–1967. Congratulations from all of us at ICSLAC, Dr. Kelly! More can be read here about Gemey's work and... More

Friday, June 30, 2023

Cultural Mediations Doctoral Student Xiaofan Wu Awarded a Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations doctoral student Xiaofan Wu who, together with co-members of the Shanghai-based Grey Matter research group, was awarded a Sigg Fellowship for Chinese art research! Awarded by Hong Kong’s M+ Global Museum of Visual Art Culture, the fellowship “supports new research on Chinese art in dialogue with the M+... More

Friday, June 16, 2023

Patricia Bérubé Awarded Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement

ICSLAC is tremendously proud to share the announcement of a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement being award to Dr. Patricia Bérubé, a recent graduate from the Cultural Mediations PhD program. Co-supervised by Professors Jesse Stewart and Lois Frankel, Patricia's doctoral dissertation focused on developing multi-sensory approaches... More

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