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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

ICSLAC faculty member and Cultural Mediations alumnae and one ICSLAC faculty member 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

2023 Interface Graduate Conference: The Cultural Inbetween (April 27, virtual event)

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

Monday, April 17, 2023

Anne Meredith Barry: Force of Nature exhibition at MacOdrum library

Curatorial Studies seminar students invite all to visit a captivating exhibition, Anne Meredith Barry: Force of Nature, presented on the main floor of MacOdrum Library (the large wall nearest the big windows, to the left of the main doors) from April 11 to May 30, 2023.  The exhibition features selected prints by the renowned... More

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Celebrating the Retirement of Ruth B. Phillips

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 with a special online Festschrift as a... More

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Distinguished cultural theorist Dr. Mieke Bal to deliver the 2023 Chris Faulkner Lecture

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

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Welcoming Sigrid Thomsen to ICSLAC!

ICSLAC would like to extend a warm welcome to Sigrid Thomsen! Sigrid Thomsen is a visiting PhD student at ICSLAC. She is doing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, where she is writing a dissertation on imaginative mobilities in Caribbean diaspora literature. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia)... More

Friday, March 24, 2023

Welcoming Rui Ji to ICSLAC!

ICSLAC would like to extend a warm welcome to Rui Ji! Rui is a scholar of art history and an artist. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Bologna. Her main area of research is the history of Chinese artists' exhibitions at the Venice Biennale from a cross-cultural perspective. Based on Asac... 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

Thursday, February 23, 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

Thursday, February 23, 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

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

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