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

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

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

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

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Dr. Philip Kaisary announced as the 2023-2025 holder of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations

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

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

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