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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Focus on grants and research: Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation

Focus on grants and research:  Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation is an internationally-funded research project spearheaded by ICSLAC professors Birgit Hopfener and Ming Tiampo, leading members of the Transnational and Transcultural Art and Culture Exchange (TrACE). Read more: Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and... More

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR RUTH PHILLIPS ON HER RETIREMENT

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture extends its warm congratulations to Professor Ruth Phillips on her retirement. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and co-founder of the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC), Professor Phillips (ICSLAC/SSAC/Sociology and... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

GRADS 2020: ICSLAC PhD students recognized for outstanding academic achievement

Our warmest congratulations to 2020 ICSLAC graduates Dr. Trina Cooper-Bolam, Dr. Konstantinos (Dino) Koutras and Dr. Matthew Purvis, who were recently recognized for the excellence of their doctoral dissertation. All three graduating Cultural Mediations PhD students were nominated for a university medal, with a Senate Medal for Outstanding... More

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

2019-20 Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship Winner: Dr. Carol Payne

Congratulations to Prof. Carol Payne, ICSLAC and Art History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' 2019-20 Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship Winner. Professor Carol Payne will be delivering the annual Marston LaFrance Lecture online, a virtual first for this lecture.  For the online 2020 Marston LaFrance lecture, Prof. Payne will present her... More

Thursday, April 9, 2020

2020 FASS Research Excellent Award

Some warm congratulations to ICSLAC member Dr. Catherine Khordoc, recipient of the 2020 FASS Research Excellence Award, for her ongoing project on “Mathematic(s) Live(s) in Contemporary Francophone... More

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

ICSLAC Update

Important Notice: Following the advice of Ottawa Public Health, the Ontario Ministry of Health, Public Health Ontario and the Public Health Agency of Canada, Carleton University has transitioned to providing services remotely during our regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday).  Please note that all events have been... More

Monday, March 16, 2020

Update on campus activities, March 16th

In light of the current public health environment, Carleton University is open to essential services only today therefore ICSLAC's office is closed with some staff and faculty working remotely. Any questions not answered by Carleton’s COVID-19 information website and its FAQ section should be forwarded to covidinfo@carleton.ca. Please ensure... More

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

ICSLAC Talk by Professor Susan Stanford Friedman “Contemporaneity, Comparison, and the New Time Studies”

Our annual ICSLAC Talks lecture will be presented by Professor Susan Stanford Friedman on “Contemporaneity, Comparison, and the New Time Studies”, March 5, 2020 at 6:00 pm, in Dunton Tower Room 2017 For more information on Susan Stanford Friedman, Hilldale Professor, Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women’s Studies, University of... More

Monday, January 20, 2020

“There Are No Fakes”

Dr Carmen Robertson (Canada Research Chair in North American Art & Material Culture) will be hosting a screening of “There Are No Fakes” — the acclaimed new Canadian film that documents the widespread forgery of works by iconic Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau.  The screening will take place on campus on Monday, March 2nd at 7:30... More

Monday, January 20, 2020

Morriseau Project Doctoral Fellowship

Morrisseau Project PhD Fellowship Application Deadline: 1 February 2020 PhD Program Start: 1 September 2020 Contemporary Indigenous art history in Canada owes a debt to the art and life of Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, a trail blazer and cultural warrior whose unique visual language has shaped diverse ways of thinking about Indigenous arts... More

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Transgender Media Lab PhD Fellowship

Transgender Media Lab PhD Fellowship Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Application deadline: February 1, 2020 PhD program start: September 2020 https://carleton.ca/transmedialab/2019/phd-fellowship/ Media creates horizons of possibility that in turn shape reality. When transgender people create audiovisual media, rather than simply... More

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Collecting the Motherland/Ojczyzna, Anna (Ania) Paluch, January 6-10th

  Collecting the Motherland/Ojczyzna Art Exhibition is currently showing at Gallery 115 at University of Ottawa from January 6-10, 2020. This exhibition is curated by Anna (Ania) Paluch , (Cultural Mediations). Vernissage is on Thursday, January 9 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at 600 Cumberland... More

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