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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... More

Friday, October 28, 2022

ICSLAC is pleased to support CUAG’s Disruptions 09: Sarah Mihara Creagen

The Institute is pleased to continue its support of CUAG's "Disruptions: Dialogues on Disability Art" series. CUAG invites you to join a talk and workshop by artist Sarah Mihara Creagen on Zoom on November 18, 2022 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. This is the ninth event in CUAG’s “Disruptions: Dialogues on Disability Art” series,... More

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Where We Stand: Student-Curated Exhibition Opens at CUAG

An exhibition curated by students of our CURA 5001 studio course (visual arts stream) is currently on display at the Carleton University Art Gallery. Developed under the supervision of Dr. Rachelle Dickenson, Where We Stand “brings together artworks selected from CUAG’s collection, made by artists from the eighteenth century to the present, to... More

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Pheng Cheah Beyond the World as Picture: Worlding and Becoming the Whole World

Event Information: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/worlding-art-history-through-syllabi/#regform The Heidelberg University team of Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation in collaboration with Ming Tiampo (WPC / Carleton University) and Birgit Hopfener (WPC / Carleton University), in cooperation with ICI Berlin, invite students... 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

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Congratulations to Pansee Abou ElAtta

Some warm congratulations to Pansee Abou ElAtta, PhD candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, on the successful oral defence of her doctoral dissertation! Titled Artifact-as-trophy: Colonial modalities of value and desire in the museal construction of Pharaonic things, her dissertation focuses on how public contestations inform the... More

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Congratulations to Lale Eskicioğlu!

Some warm congratulations to Lale Eskicioğlu, PhD candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, on the successful oral defence of her doctoral dissertation! Titled Beyond Postcolonialism: Urban and Social Realist Turn in Indian and Nigerian Literatures, her dissertation investigates contemporary city literature, with a focus on Mumbai and... More

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Small Modernisms, May 12-13, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

Dr. Michael Windover (SSAC/ICSLAC) and Dr. Dustin Valen (McGill University) are organizing a two-day symposium dedicated to exploring the role of the built environment in shaping Canadian society in the decades following the Second World War. Through an emphasis on the small-scale and intimate, the paper presentations and architectural... More

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Graduate Workshop on “Unlearning Temporality”, April 14th, 9:00 AM-2:15 PM

The Unlearning Temporality Graduate Workshop builds on the theme “The temporal diversity of our time, pluralizing and unlearning the modern Western temporal regime,” developed by Professor Birgit Hopfener in the context of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations (ICSLAC, Carleton University). What are multiple concepts... More

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Professor Sarah Casteel to Deliver 2022 Marston LaFrance Lecture

ICSLAC is delighted to announce that Professor Sarah Phillips Casteel will be delivering the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Marston LaFrance Lecture on March 23, from 3-4 pm. You can register here for this online event. Professor Casteel’s talk, “Making History Visible: Black Lives Under Nazism in Literature and... More

Monday, March 7, 2022

Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Patricia Bérubé featured in Carleton Story marking International Women’s Day

4th-year PhD candidate Patricia Bérubé is featured as one of Five Inspiring Student Leaders Making a Difference in Their Communities in a Carleton Story marking International Women’s Day: Accessibility of visual art is a focus of PhD candidate Patricia Bérubé’s research. She started by exploring tactile translations of paintings to... More

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Upcoming ICSLAC Workshop: “Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art: Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks”

Held over three days (March 10-12, 2022, 8:45 am – 12:00 pm), “Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art: Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks” seeks to contribute to the decolonization of universalized historiographic frameworks and temporal concepts of art through combinations of Western critique and... More

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