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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

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