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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, 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

Friday, January 13, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Bérubé on the successful defence of her doctoral dissertation

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

Cultural Mediations alumna Dr. Trina Cooper-Bolam awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

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

Monday, December 12, 2022

Graduate Publication: Victoria Nolte publishes an article on the video works of Canadian artist Jin-me Yoon

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

Launching ICSLAC’s Graduate Virtual Bookshelf

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

CFP for ICSLAC Graduate Conference: The Cultural Inbetween, Exploring Distinctions Within Popular Culture

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

New Publication: Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming, co-edited by Professor Carol Payne and Cultural Mediations alumna Dr. Christina Williamson

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

A New Book by Professor Barbara Leckie: Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time

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

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Professor Mitchell Frank’s New Publication: The Met and the Masses in Postwar America: A Study of the Museum and Popular Art Education

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

Saturday, November 12, 2022

On “Three Songs”: In Conversation with Laura Taler

  From September 25th-December 18, 2022, the Carleton University Art Gallery features the video installation exhibition "Three Songs" by Laura Taler (curated by Heather Anderson) On Tuesday, November 22nd, 2023, at 1:30 PM, the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts and Culture and the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship... More

Friday, November 11, 2022

Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Krista Ulujuk Zawadski named as a finalist for a SSHRC Talent Award

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Krista Ulujuk Zawadski on being nominated as a finalist for a SSHRC Talent Award. Krista is an Arctic anthropologist, curator and Inuk researcher. Her doctoral project focuses on Qatiktalik (Cape Fullerton) as a “nexus of colonial encounters” and offers ”a (re)interpretation of known... More

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Echoing the Land: Canadian Heritage exhibition curated by Carmen Robertson and her graduate class

Some warm congratulations to ICSLAC Professor Dr. Carmen Robertson and students of her Cultural Mediations graduate seminar, who curated the exhibition Echoing the Land. Presented by Canadian Heritage in collaboration with Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Echoing the Land is currently on display in Ottawa’s Clarendon and... More

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

New Publication by Professor Ming Tiampo: Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work

New Publication: Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor Ming Tiampo (SSAC-Art History/ICSLAC) on the publication of her new book Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute). Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work “considers how one of Canada’s most important voices on the nature of identity developed a critical perspective on the... More

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

New Publication by Professor Stuart Murray: The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics

Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor Stuart Murray (English/ICSLAC) on the publication of his new book The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics (Penn State University Press). In this new monograph, Professor Murray considers how “In a society that aims above all to safeguard life” we might “reckon with ethical... More

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Prestigious Award: Professor Ruth Phillips Awarded UAAC’s Lifetime Achievement Award

  Congratulations to Professor Ruth Phillips, ICSLAC retired faculty member and Carleton Professor Emerita, who received the 2022  Universities Art Association of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award. The UAAC Lifetime Achievement Award “is presented to a senior scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession over the... More

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Looking Together Sessions

Dr. Birgit Hopfener is pleased to invite Carleton University students and faculty, as well as colleagues and friends of the university, to join the weekly series of Looking Together sessions organized as part of her Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations. Looking Together constitutes slowing down to see artworks and objects... More

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Cultural Meditiations graduate Dr. Pansee Abou ElAtta to be awarded a Senate Medal for Outstanding Achievement

Some sincere congratulations to Dr Pansee Abou ElAtta, who is graduating from the Cultural Mediations PhD program with a Senate Medal for Outstanding Achievement. What a tremendous and well-deserved recognition! Titled Unruly Appreciations: How contestation shapes the value of Pharaonic things,Pansee's dissertation focuses on how public... More

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Professor Jesse Stewart named to the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor Jesse Stewart (SSAC-Music/ICSLAC) who has been named as a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. You can read more on Professor Stewart’s nomination here. His full profile can be found... More

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Jessica Marino, Fellow at the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization

Cultural Mediations doctoral candidate Jessica Marino was selected for a Fellowship at the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization (Holocaust Education Foundation of Northwestern University). In the summer of 2022, Jessica was a Fellow at the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization of the Holocaust Education... More

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

PhD Candidate Jessica Marino Contributes a Guest Lecture to an Holocaust Education Online Course

Jessica Marino, PhD Candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, contributed a lecture to the Hear Our Voices: Holocaust Survivors Share their Stories of Trauma and Hate project or HOV. HOV is a bilingual online course that aims to educate students on the Holocaust and Antisemitism by placing the voices of Holocaust survivors at its centre.... More

Monday, May 2, 2022

Graduate Publication: PhD candidate Anna (Ania) Peluch publishes a book chapter on the Baltic waterways

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Anna (Ania) Peluch for the publication of her book chapter: "The Baltic Waterways: Mapping Cross-Cultural and Ecological Awareness of the Baltic Sea." Ephemeral Coast: Visualizing Coastal Climate Change, edited by Celina Jeffery, Vernon Press, 2022, pp. 67-83. https://vernonpress.com/book/1502.... More

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Congratulations to Lale Eskicioğlu!

Some warm congratulations to Lale Eskicioğlu, PhD candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, on the successful oral defence of her doctoral dissertation! Titled Beyond Postcolonialism: Urban and Social Realist Turn in Indian and Nigerian Literatures, her dissertation investigates contemporary city literature, with a focus on Mumbai and... More

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Symposium: Small Modernisms, May 12-13, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

Dr. Michael Windover (SSAC/ICSLAC) and Dr. Dustin Valen (McGill University) are organizing a two-day symposium dedicated to exploring the role of the built environment in shaping Canadian society in the decades following the Second World War. Through an emphasis on the small-scale and intimate, the paper presentations and architectural... More

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Reesa Greenberg Exhibition Studies Award: Congratulations to Fara Abn

Some warm congratulations to Curatorial Studies and Cultural Mediations PhD student Fara Abn, 2022 recipient of the Reesa Greenberg Exhibition Studies Award. Fara’s doctoral research focuses on the Venice Biennial, which she approaches through a comparative study situating Iranian artists’ participation from 1956 to present. The Reesa... More

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Graduate Workshop on “Unlearning Temporality”, April 14th, 9:00 AM-2:15 PM

The Unlearning Temporality Graduate Workshop builds on the theme “The temporal diversity of our time, pluralizing and unlearning the modern Western temporal regime,” developed by Professor Birgit Hopfener in the context of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations (ICSLAC, Carleton University). What are multiple concepts... More

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Professor Sarah Casteel to Deliver the 2022 Marston LaFrance Lecture

ICSLAC is delighted to announce that Professor Sarah Phillips Casteel will be delivering the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Marston LaFrance Lecture on March 23, from 3-4 pm. You can register here for this online event. Professor Casteel’s talk, “Making History Visible: Black Lives Under Nazism in Literature and... More

Monday, March 7, 2022

Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Patricia Bérubé featured in Carleton Story to mark International Women’s Day

Patricia Bérubé, a 4th-year PhD candidate in the Cultural Mediations doctoral program, is featured as one of five Inspiring Student Leaders Making a Difference in Their Communities in a Carleton Story marking International Women's Day: Accessibility of visual art is a focus of PhD candidate Patricia Bérubé’s research. She started by... More

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Upcoming ICSLAC Workshop: “Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art: Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks”

Held over three days (March 10-12, 2022, 8:45 am – 12:00 pm), “Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art: Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks” seeks to contribute to the decolonization of universalized historiographic frameworks and temporal concepts of art through combinations of Western critique and... More

Thursday, February 10, 2022

2022 Chris Faulkner Lecture: Dr. Annette de Stecher, “Wendat Women’s Arts: Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy”

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture is delighted to announce that the 2022 Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations will be delivered by Dr. Annette de Stecher from the University of Colorado Boulder. Titled “Wendat Women’s Arts: Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy”, Dr. de Stecher’s lecture will... More

Monday, January 31, 2022

Lecture by Professor Claire Farago: “Defining an Ecological Approach to Art History: On the History of Human Exceptionalism”

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture is pleased to announce an upcoming lecture by Professor Claire Farago. Professor Farago is an Art Historian and Professor Emerita at University of Colorado Boulder specializing in Early Modern art, theory, and criticism, as well as museum and collecting practices. Her talk... More

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

PhD in Cultural Mediations: 2023 applications are now open

Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2023. The number of funded positions is limited. Apply early. For an appointment with our Graduate Supervisor: email us at dawnschmidt@cunet.carleton.ca Cultural Mediations at a glance: • Take a look at some of our seminars in 2022-2023 • Find out about recently defended dissertations and previous... More

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Amy Bruce

Some warm congratulations to Amy Bruce, PhD candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, on the successful oral defence of her doctoral dissertation! Amy's project is entitled Resistivity in Contemporary Art Biennials: A Synchronic Analysis. Much gratitude to her supervisors, Dr. Ming Tiampo and Dr. Birgit... More

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Nicola Oddy

Some warm congratulations to Nicola Oddy, PhD candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, on the successful oral defence of her doctoral dissertation! Nicola's project, Seeking Awareness of Our Selves and the Environment through Vocal Improvisation in The Singing Field, is detailed on her graduate profile. Much gratitude to her supervisor, Dr.... More

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