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Thursday, March 23, 2023

ICSLAC Connect Workshop: Alumni on Career Paths after The PhD

Alumni, faculty and current graduate students of the Cultural Mediations and Curatorial Studies programs are warmly invited to attend a hybrid alumni-led discussion focused on career trajectories after the PhD. The workshop will be held on Wednesday March 29 from 1-3 pm in SP201D (hybrid option available). The following ICSLAC members will be... More

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Worlding Public Cultures 2023 international conference: Worlding Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal Bridging Knowledges, Practices, and Being

Carleton professors Birgit Hopfener, Ruth Phillips, Carmen Robertson and Ming Tiampo (SSAC/ICSLAC) will be presenting at the WPC 2023 Worlding Tiohtià:ke/Montreal conference and exhibition, a 2-day hybrid colloquium held at Concordia University 31 March -1 April 2023. For all information: Worlding Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal Bridging Knowledges,... More

Friday, March 3, 2023

Jessica Marino awarded the David Rebecca Zelikovitz Scholarship

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Jessica Paola Marino, who was recently awarded the David Rebecca Zelikovitz Scholarship. Jessica is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in the Cultural Mediations program. Her research interests are centred on cultural representations which mark the interconnections of memory between different... More

Friday, March 3, 2023

Adiba Faizi awarded the Irene Ethel Cockburn Bursary

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Adiba Faizi, who was recently awarded the Irene Ethel Cockburn Bursary. Adiba’s research project titled “The Other Other: Politics of Representation of Self-flagellation as part of the Diasporic Shia Muslim Identity in post-9/11 Western Nation States” aims to trouble the ways we think of... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Distinguished cultural theorist Dr. Mieke Bal to deliver 2023 Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) is delighted to announce that the 2023 Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations will be delivered by distinguished cultural theorist Dr. Mieke Bal, professor emerita at the University of Amsterdam. “Unpacking: concepts and artworks speaking together”  Dr.... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Welcoming Dr. Mohsen Nasrin to our alumni page!

We want to welcome one of our Cultural Mediations graduates joining our alumni page. Dr. Mohsen Nasrin, who holds a PhD from the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University, is a contract professor in film studies at the University of Calgary, University of Alberta, Mount Royal University, and... More

Monday, February 13, 2023

ICSLAC Turns 20: Program of Events

Over the winter term and early spring, ICSLAC is marking 20 years of innovative interdisciplinary graduate research and teaching with a series of events and celebrations involving alumni, students, faculty and friends of the Institute. We look forward to greeting you at any of the following (follow each link for further details, some RSVP... More

Friday, February 3, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Marie-Catherine Allard on the successful defence of her doctoral dissertation!

Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Marie-Catherine Allard successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Reshaping Memory: Counter-narratives in Kindertransport Literature. Congratulations from all of us at ICSLAC, Dr. Allard! Marie-Catherine's doctoral project was supervised by Professor Sarah Casteel  More can be read here about... More

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

ICSLAC Workshop on University Teaching

Current graduate students in the Cultural Mediations and Curatorial Studies programs are warmly invited to attend a hybrid alumni-led discussion focused on all things university teaching. The workshop will be held on Wednesday February 8 from 1 to 3 pm in our seminar room (virtual attendance an option). The following ICSLAC members will be... More

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Victoria Nolte on the successful defence of her doctoral dissertation!

Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Victoria Nolte successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, One Place and Another: Worldmaking in Asian Canadian Contemporary Art. Congratulations from all of us at ICSLAC, Dr. Nolte! Victoria's doctoral project was co-supervised by Professors Sarah Casteel and Ming Tiampo. More can be read here about... More

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Employment Opportunity: faculty position, Indigenous museology and public history

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) and the Department of History invite applications from qualified Indigenous candidates for a preliminary (tenure-track) cross- appointment at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2023, specializing in Indigenous practices in museology, broadly defined. For... More

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Kevin Pat Fong to discuss alternative comics at the Ottawa Public Library

Kevin Pat Fong, a doctoral candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, will be giving a talk on alternative comics and how they help shape today's American comics industry at the OPL’s main branch (room B125) on Thursday February 2 at 6 pm. Kevin’s doctoral research focuses on the relationship between characters of Asian descent... More

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