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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 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

Monday, January 15, 2024

Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies Info Session

We are hosting a hybrid Information Session for Curatorial Studies interdisciplinary 3-credit graduate diploma. Our program can be combined with many of Carleton’s MA and PhD programs or taken on its own. We hope that you will join us on Friday, January 19th at 2 pm in St. Patrick’s room 201D. Interested applicants may also email... More

Monday, January 8, 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

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Call For Papers – The Scholarly In-Between: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Culture, Literature, and the Humanities

This one-day Zoom conference aims to explore the challenges, rewards and necessities of working between fields, and the ways in which such an approach can reinvigorate the humanities for our times. One of the promises of interdisciplinary research is the potential to pull pre-existing but independent fields into productive conversation with one... More

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

2023 Chris Faulkner Lecture: Dr. Mieke Bal, “Unpacking: concepts and artworks speaking together”

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 at the University of Amsterdam. This year's lecture is also held in celebration of Dr. Ruth Phillips, on... 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

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

RMPP Film Club and Reading Group

Dear ICSLAC community, You are cordially invited to join us every second Wednesday beginning on September 13th from 2:30-5:30 pm at St. Pats 201D for our new RMPP Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship) film club series titled "Cinema of the World System: Rethinking 'Law and Film,'" hosted by Dr. Philip Kaisary. The first gathering... More

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Congratulations to SSHRC 2022 Winners

Congratulations to ICSLAC cross-appointed faculty members who have recently received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight grant awards. Ming Tiampo (Art History), “Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms” • Collaborators: Eva Bentcheva, Liz Bruchet, Joshua Cohen, Susan A.R. Collins, Paul Goodwin, Michele Greet,... 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... More

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