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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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
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
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
Friday, January 13, 2023
Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Patricia Bérubé successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Towards a more inclusive museum: developing multi-sensory approaches to the visual arts for visually impaired audiences”. Congratulations from all of us at ICSLAC, Dr. Bérubé! A Trudeau Foundation Scholar, Patricia was co-supervised by... More
Monday, December 12, 2022
Congratulations to Cultural Mediations alumna, Dr. Trina Cooper-Bolam, who was recently awarded a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Her postdoctoral research project, Storied Transformations: Decolonizing Inherited Space through Memorial Performance, builds upon her doctoral work at Carleton. Responding to the priorities of... More
Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Victoria Nolte for the publication of her article "Toward a Formal Language of Resonance: Diaspora and Place in the Video Works of Jin-me Yoon." Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall 2022, pp. 91-118. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/861668 For more information on Victoria's... More
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
ICSLAC is kick-starting its 20th anniversary with the launch of a Graduate Virtual Bookshelf, showcasing the scholarly and creative work of graduate students from the Cultural Mediations PhD and Curatorial Studies diploma. The bookshelf is intended as a virtual library where all students of the Institute can share their publications, exhibitions... More
Monday, December 5, 2022
Interface 2023, an ICSLAC virtual graduate conference The Cultural Inbetween, Exploring Distinctions Within Popular Culture April 27, 2023, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture CFP deadline: February 1st 2023 This virtual one-day conference seeks to draw together interdisciplinary graduate presentations to create a... More
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor Carol Payne (SSAC-Art History/ICSLAC) and Cultural Mediations alumna Dr. Christina Williamson on their recent co-edited book, Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming Published with McGill-Queen’s University Press, Atiqput offers “A multigenerational discussion of culture, history,... More
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor Barbara Leckie (English/ICSLAC) on the publication of her new book Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time (Stanford University Press). In this new monograph, Barbara Leckie “considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century... More
ICSLAC is delighted to announce that Dr. Philip Kaisary (Laws and Legal Studies/English/ICSLAC) will hold the forthcoming 2023-2025 tenure of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations. A legal, literary, and cultural comparativist, Dr. Kaisary brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms.... More
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
New Publication: Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor Mitchell Frank (SSAC-Art History/ICSLAC) on the publication of his new book The Met and the Masses in Postwar America: A Study of the Museum and Popular Art Education (Bloosmburry Press). In his new monograph, Professor Frank “explores the collaborations, during the mid-20th... More
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