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Monday, May 3, 2021

Contract Instructor Opportunities for 2021-2022 (Fall-Winter)

Contract Instructor Opportunities for Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) is seeking qualified contract instructors for the Fall 2021 (September to December) and Winter 2022 (January to April) graduate courses listed below (Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies): FALL 2021 CURA... More

Thursday, March 11, 2021

2021 ICSLAC talks Lecture: “Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust” with Dr. Erica Lehrer

ICSLAC Talks is an intellectual forum which brings together faculty and students from across campus with high-level visitors to work collaboratively on ideas that matter in Cultural Theory, Memory Studies, Indigenous Studies, Digital Culture, Museum Studies, Gender and Sexuality studies, and Transnational Studies. Past speakers have included... More

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Cultural Mediations PhD Defence

Our warmest congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD student Emma Lind, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, The White Settler Colonial Landscape of Toronto's Wychwood Park, under the supervision of ICSLAC professor Dr. Peter Hodgins.... More

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Program Milestones and Completion

The following ICSLAC students achieved important milestones over the fall term. Virginia (Ginny) Stovel graduated in the fall from the Curatorial Studies Graduate Diploma. Cultural Mediations students Patricia Bérubé, Jessica Marino, Steven Suntres and Krista Zawadski successfully completed their second comprehensive examination. Hilary Grant... More

Thursday, October 22, 2020

To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive at CUAG

Congratulations to Cara Tierney, PhD candidate in Cultural Mediations co-curator with Anna Shah Hoque of “To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive” at the Carleton University Art Gallery. running from September 24 – December 12, 2020.To find out more about this exhibition, see here. You can listen to weekly podcasts of this project here:... More

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Dr. Catherine Khordoc awarded a Canadian Studies Network’s 2019 prize

Dr. Catherine Khordoc’s awarded a Canadian Studies Network’s 2019 prize Congratulations to ICSLAC professor Dr. Catherine Khordoc (French/SICS/ICSLAC), who was awarded the Canadian Studies Network’s 2019 prize for the best article published in the Journal of Canadian Studies. Her essay "Worlded Literature in Quebec: Wajdi... More

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Monica Patterson’s “Children’s Museology and the COVID-19 Crisis”

The American Alliance of Museums has recently published "Children's Museology and the COVID-19 Crisis" by Monica Patterson. The full article is available here: Childrens Museology and the COVID-19... More

Friday, October 2, 2020

Professor Zoe Todd named to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Some warm congratulations to ICSLAC Professor Zoe Todd (Sociology & Anthropology / ICSLAC ) on her prestigious nomination to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Read... More

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Summer Doctoral Awards

Some sincere congratulations to the following Cultural Mediations Students Andras Memorial Award:  Marie-Catherine Allard: Remediating Memory: Narrating the Kindertransport in Literature and Popular Culture Director’s Fund in Cultural Mediations: Adiba Faizi: The Other Other: Politics of Representation of Self-Flagellation as part of the... More

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Spotlight on Faculty Research and Achievements

Some sincere congratulations to ICSLAC professors Dr. Ellen Waterman (SSAC-Music/ICSLAC) and Dr. Carolyn Ramzy (SSAC-Music/ICSLAC), who are each recipients of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant as part of the Winter 2020... More

Monday, September 14, 2020

Guest Lecture: Thinking Modernity from the Perspective of the Capitalocene

Please join us in welcoming guest lecturer Professor Nick Lawrence from the University of Warwick Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Department. Thinking Modernity from the Perspective of the Capitalocene This talk examines a cluster of related concepts – modernity, ‘enlightenment,’ the Anthropocene – in response to... More

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Focus on publications: Fighting Sleep. The War for the Mind and the US Military

Focus on publications: congratulations to ICSLAC professor Franny Nudelman (English/ICSLAC) on the publication of her new monograph, Fighting Sleep. The War for the Mind and the US Military, published by Verso Books and reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of... More

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