Thursday, August 21, 2025

Announcing the 2025-27 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor in Cultural Mediations: Dr. Malini Guha

Please join us in congratulating our 2025-2027 Ruth & Mark Phillips Professor (RMPP) in Cultural Mediations:  Dr. Malini Guha Dr. Malini Guha (she/her), Associate Professor of Film Studies and in Cultural Mediations, has been awarded the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations for the 2025-2027 term with the theme:... More

Saturday, February 15, 2025

2025 RMPP Flagship Lecture: Dr. Carolyn Ownbey on “Literary Trials and the Possibility of Justice”

We invite you to join us Thursday, March 20th, 2025 for this year’s Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship (RMPP) Lecture! The current holder, Dr. Philip Kaisary welcomes Dr. Carolyn Ownbey (Golden Gate University, Assistant Professor, Department of English) to deliver her talk, titled “Literary Trials and the Possibility of Justice” (abstract... More

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Book Talk with Dr. Myka Tucker-Abramson (Thursday, February 6th)

Join us this Thursday, February 6th at 2:45pm in the ICSLAC seminar room (or remotely, as it is a hybrid event) as Dr. Myka Tucker-Abramson (Associate Professor, University of Warwick, Department of English and Comparative Literature Studies) will present over Zoom. Her work has been published in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, and Feminist Theory.... More

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Dr. Philip Kaisary featured in “The Conversation”

In recent years, there has been an increased push for more diversity and representation on our entertainment screens. The #OscarsSoWhite campaign of 2015 and the enduring social justice movement it generated increased public awareness of the longstanding problematic issues of discrimination and exclusion in Hollywood. The movement drew needed... More

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Memorial Gathering for Mark Salber Phillips

Faculty, former students and those who worked with Mark are invited to a memorial gathering for Mark Salber Phillips (1946-2024), who was an esteemed member of Carleton’s History Department and Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture. The event will take place at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre on Saturday,... More

Thursday, January 23, 2025

ICSLAC Remembers Dr. Mark Phillips (1946-2024)

We mourn the death of Mark Salber Phillips, who died peacefully in Toronto on December 30. His death ended a life devoted to teaching, historical research and writing, and a politics of social justice. Equally important to him were his wife Ruth and his daughters Sarah Casteel and Emma Phillips, whom he loved and... More

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, March 20, 2024

2024 Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations: Immediacy, Or the Style of Too Late Capitalism

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations, titled Immediacy, Or the Style of Too Late Capitalism, presented by Dr. Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois Chicago) on Thursday, April 18th, 2024, in Paterson Hall, 303 from 5 - 7 pm. Q & A to follow. Organized by Dr. Philip... More

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, 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

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

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

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

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

SOME WARM CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR 2023 GRADUATES!

On behalf of all of us at ICSLAC, some sincere congratulations to Marie-Catherine Allard, Patricia Bérubé and Victoria Nolte, who are graduating from the Cultural Mediations PhD program. You should stand proud of your academic achievements and scholarly contributions. With much gratitude as well to their Supervisors for their mentoring and... More

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

ICSLAC faculty member and Cultural Mediations alumnae recognized by the Canadian Historical Association with a Clio Prize (North) and Indigenous History Book Prize

Congratulations to Carleton professor Dr. Carol Payne (SSAC/ICSLAC) and Cultural Mediations Alumnae Drs. Annette de Stecher and Christina Williamson, whose publications received recognition from the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). Drs. Carol Payne and Christina Williamson are the recipients of a CHA Clio Award (North) for their... More

Thursday, April 20, 2023

ICSLAC 2023 Interface Graduate Conference: The Cultural Inbetween, April 27 2023 (Virtual)

ICSLAC is delighted to announce the 2023 Interface Graduate Conference, to be held virtually on April 27. The Cultural Inbetween: Exploring Distinctions Within Popular, High and Low Culture seeks to draw together interdisciplinary presentations to create a generative and multidisciplinary understanding of popular culture. Presentations of 15... 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

Wednesday, March 29, 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

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

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