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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Philip Kaisary, From Havana to Hollywood, Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary

Please join us on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 6 p.m. at Wise Town Café 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... 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 17, 2024

Dr. Birgit Hopfener Publishes Article in Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual Journal

Professor Birgit Hopfener's co-edited special issue Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art. Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks on 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual . Dr. Hopfener's work is the outcome of the Ruth and Mark Phillip... More

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Exhibition opening reception for Weaving Together: The Art of Shirley Bear curated by the 2024 cohort of the Curatorial Studies 5002 seminar

Please join us for a vernissage on Monday, 22 April 2024, 1:00pm for opening remarks and light refreshments in MacOdrum Library, Room 252 to celebrate the opening of Weaving Together: The Art of Shirley Bear curated by the 2024 cohort of the Curatorial Studies 5002 seminar. Weaving Together: The Art of Shirley Bear Curatorial... 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

Canadian Studies Research Talk – Assembled Bodies: Museum Curation as Apparatus of Bodily Production in Canada and the United Kingdom

PhD Cultural Mediations Candidate Casey Gray will present a Canadian Studies Research Talk titled Assembled Bodies: Museum Curation as Apparatus of Bodily Production in Canada and the United Kingdom on March 20th at 2:30 pm in Dunton Tower 1216. This presentation examines the curatorial decision-making process made by museums to display or not... 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

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Rebecca Friend Writes Article for Muse

Curatorial Studies graduate, instructor, and Ph.D. candidate in Public History, Rebecca Friend, wrote for the Canadian Museums Association’s magazine, Muse. The article, “Considering Children in Museums” is available... More

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Virtual Book Talk: Black Lives Under Nazism

Join Montreal Holocaust Museum online on February 28th at 12 PM EST for a riveting and enlightening virtual book talk, “Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art,” as part of our Black History Month celebrations. Led by the esteemed Sarah Phillips Casteel, author of this groundbreaking book, professor of English... 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

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