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

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

ICSLAC Workshop on University Teaching

Current graduate students in the Cultural Mediations and Curatorial Studies programs are warmly invited to attend a hybrid alumni-led discussion focused on all things university teaching. The workshop will be held on Wednesday February 8 from 1 to 3 pm in our seminar room (virtual attendance an option). The following ICSLAC members will be... More

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Employment Opportunity: faculty position, Indigenous museology and public history

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) and the Department of History invite applications from qualified Indigenous candidates for a preliminary (tenure-track) cross- appointment at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2023, specializing in Indigenous practices in museology, broadly defined. For... More

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Kevin Fong to discuss alternative comics at the Ottawa Public Library

Kevin Pat Fong, a doctoral candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, will be giving a talk on alternative comics and how they help shape today's American comics industry at the OPL’s main branch (room B125) on Thursday February 2 at 6 pm. Kevin’s doctoral research focuses on the relationship between characters of Asian descent... More

Friday, January 13, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Bérubé on the successful defence of her doctoral dissertation

Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Patricia Bérubé successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Towards a more inclusive museum: developing multi-sensory approaches to the visual arts for visually impaired audiences”. Congratulations from all of us at ICSLAC, Dr. Bérubé!  A Trudeau Foundation Scholar, Patricia was co-supervised by... More

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Launching ICSLAC’s Graduate Virtual Bookshelf

ICSLAC is kick-starting its 20th anniversary with the launch of a Graduate Virtual Bookshelf, showcasing the scholarly and creative work of graduate students from the Cultural Mediations PhD and Curatorial Studies diploma. The bookshelf is intended as a virtual library where all students of the Institute can share their publications, exhibitions... More

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Dr. Philip Kaisary announced as the 2023-2025 holder of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations.

ICSLAC is delighted to announce that Dr. Philip Kaisary (Laws and Legal Studies/English/ICSLAC) will hold the forthcoming 2023-2025 tenure of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations. A legal, literary, and cultural comparativist, Dr. Kaisary brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms.... More

Friday, November 11, 2022

Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Krista Ulujuk Zawadski named as a finalist for a SSHRC Talent Award

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Krista Ulujuk Zawadski on being nominated as a finalist for a SSHRC Talent Award. Krista is an Arctic anthropologist, curator and Inuk researcher. Her doctoral project focuses on Qatiktalik (Cape Fullerton) as a “nexus of colonial encounters” and offers ”a (re)interpretation of known... More

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Cultural Mediations Graduate Dr. Pansee Abou ElAtta to be awarded a Senate Medal for Outstanding Achievement

Some sincere congratulations to Dr Pansee Abou ElAtta, who is graduating from the Cultural Mediations PhD program with a Senate Medal for Outstanding Achievement. What a tremendous and well-deserved recognition! Titled Unruly Appreciations: How contestation shapes the value of Pharaonic things,Pansee's dissertation focuses on how public... More

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

Thursday, February 10, 2022

2022 Chris Faulkner Lecture: Dr. Annette de Stecher, “Wendat Women’s Arts: Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy”

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture is delighted to announce that the 2022 Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations will be delivered by Dr. Annette de Stecher from the University of Colorado Boulder. Titled “Wendat Women’s Arts: Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy”, Dr. de Stecher's lecture will draw... More

Monday, January 31, 2022

Lecture by Professor Claire Farago: “Defining an Ecological Approach to Art History: On the History of Human Exceptionalism”

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture is pleased to announce an upcoming lecture by Professor Claire Farago. Professor Farago is an Art Historian and Professor Emerita at University of Colorado Boulder specializing in Early Modern art, theory, and criticism, as well as museum and collecting practices. Her talk... More

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD candidates Amy Bruce and Nicola Oddy

We are delighted to announce that Amy Bruce (Resistivity in Contemporary Art Biennials: A Synchronic Analysis, Co-Supervisors Drs. Birgit Hopfener and Ming Tiampo) and Nicola Oddy  (Seeking Awareness of Our Selves and the Environment through Vocal Improvisation in The Singing Field, Supervisor Dr. Jesse Stewart) successfully defended their... More

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

 Music, Sound and Society in Canada: Dr. Ellen Waterman launches a new research centre

Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Dr. Ellen Waterman (Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada, Music/ICSLAC) on the launch of  Music, Sound and Society in Canada (MSSC), a new research centre under her directorship. MSSC will take a critical lens to music and sound in this country, bringing together scholars from Carleton, external... More

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Malini Guha (Film Studies/ICSLAC)

Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Dr. Malini Guha (Film Studies), who was awarded a FASS Mid-Career Research Grant for her current research project "On Traction: Moving Images and Realities" Dr. Guha’s full profile can be found... More

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Congratulations to PhD candidate Christina Williamson

Some warm congratulations to Christina Williamson, PhD candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, on the successful oral defence of her doctoral dissertation! Christina's project, Inuit Women, Labour and the Parka: A History of Sewing in Arviat, Nunavut, is detailed on her graduate profile. Much gratitude to her co-supervisors, Dr. Michel Hogue... More

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Disruptions 07: Jeff Kasper on Measures of Support

Carleton University Art Gallery recently hosted a talk and creative exercises by the NYC-based artist, designer and educator Jeff Kasper. This is the seventh event in CUAG's "Disruptions: Dialogues on Disability Art" series, curated by Michael Orsini to generate dialogue about contemporary art as a force for challenging ableism. You can find more... More

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Gemey Kelley

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Gemey Kelly on the successful defence of her thesis proposal. Gemey's project is entitled Place and Standing in Canadian Art. The Discourses of Regionalism and the Nationalization of Culture in Canada, 1930–1967. For more information, consult Gemey's... More

Friday, November 12, 2021

Congratulations to our 2021 Curatorial Studies Diploma Graduates

Our warmest congratulations to all Fall 2021 graduating Curatorial Studies diploma students! Carla Ayukawa Arden Hody Baichuan Lu Marina Piza Rebecca Watson Valerie-Ellen... More

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Cultural Mediations: Looking Together Series

Dr. Birgit Hopfener invites 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 with and... More

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

ICSLAC Appointment: Dr. Birgit Hopfener Appointed to the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations

The Institute for Comparative Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Birgit Hopfener (SSAC/ICSLAC) as the inaugural holder of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations. This exciting new position is intended to provide an ICSLAC faculty member with the opportunity to shape a... More

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Cara Tierney and their collaborator Pascale Arpin released the first volume of their graphic novel Phantomtits

Cara Tierney,Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate and their collaborator Pascale Arpin have released the first volume of their graphic novel Phantomtits (a gender creative superhero-ish creation tale). The graphic novel can be purchased or read for free on their website https://phantomtits.com You can see their press release... More