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

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, June 3, 2020

Three ICSLAC Cross-appointed Faculty Members Receive COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grants

A big congratulations to ICSLAC cross-appointed faculty members who received Carleton University COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grants. David Dean (ICSLAC & Public History) will research “Experiencing COVID-19 Through Science and Technology: Adjusting, Adapting, Innovating" and Jesse Stewart (ICSLAC & SSAC: Music), will research... 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

Friday, March 13, 2020

COVID-19 Update – Plan for Remainder of Term

Please check our coronavirus information website for details. MARCH 13, 2020 As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve in the Ottawa region and around the world, we have been constantly re-evaluating our plans in light of new information. Being both prepared and flexible is essential to making the best possible decisions at the right time.... 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

Monday, December 16, 2019

Breaking Ground Art Exhibition, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski

Vernissage - Breaking Ground Art Exhibition was hosted by the National Arts Centre, NAC Indigenous Theatre and Carleton University Art Gallery on Thursday, September 12. This exhibition, featuring drawings and prints selected from the collection of Carleton University Art Gallery is curated by Danielle Printup and Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, (Cultural... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

Revitalizing Indigenous Arts

Revitalizing Indigenous Arts, Wahsontiio Cross, a Cultural Mediations PhD student presented a lecture at the Ottawa Art Gallery on Sunday, September 15,... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

CUAG Fall Shows Curated by Emily Putnam

Fall shows at the Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) until January 2020 include two exhibits curated (or co-curated) by Emily Putnam. Congratulations, Emily & Rebecca! Sites of Memory: Legacies of the Japanese Canadian Internment where the histories, impacts and legacies of the Canadian government’s internment of Japanese Canadians... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

Pansee Abou ElAtta Panel Discussion: We Only Liberate Ourselves

Pansee Abou ElAtta (PhD in Cultural Mediations/Curatorial Studies) along with Alexis Shotwell and Andi Vicente participated on a panel discussion on Friday, October 4th at the Mill Street Brew Pub at 555 Wellington Street as part of Knot Projections 2019: Imagining Publics. Pansee’s public projection  is visible in the vicinity of the Mill... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

Cara Tierney Gives Talk “Art as Social Capacitor”

In this talk Tierney shared the way their art practice has capacitated education and social change. Drawing from their reality as a transgender and non-binary artist, in recent years Tierney’s work has moved into the unlikely terrain of consultancy and organizational change. From underground experimental performance art to institutional... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

Inuit Art Online: An interactive Speaker Series

Inuit Art Online: An interactive speaker series featured Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, PhD student in Cultural Mediations along with Nyla Innuksuk and Couzyn van Heuvelen took place on November 28th at the Onsite gallery to capitalize on the momentum of Among All These Tundras exhibit. This one day speaker symposium featured a series of presentations... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

Cara Tierney’s Work Featured in OAG’s Exhibit

PhD Candidate, C. Tierney’s work is included in the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Facing Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Also on view is their recent public art commission in the main space of the Ottawa Art... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

PhD Candidate Anna Paluch Participated in Afternoon Intersections: How to Become a Star!

On Thursday, November 14th, PhD Candidate, A. Paluch (Cultural Mediations) and Kimberly Stratton (College of the Humanities) participated in the afternoon intersections at CUAG discussion “ethno-futurism”, science fiction narratives, martyrdom and gender. About the Event What can occur when two scholars explore unexpected intersections between... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

Art’s Role in Changing How We Think About the World

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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Launch of the Virtual Platform for Indigenous Art

Indigenous Collection Edit-A-Thon, Onsite Gallery, December 13th 2019, 2:30pm-5:30pm: Join in for a celebration and a preview of the Virtual Platform for Indigenous Art pilot! On December 13th, 2019 the Virtual Platform for Indigenous Art community edit-a-thon will bring together communities of Indigenous cultural specialists and developers... More

Monday, November 4, 2019

Worlding the Global: The Arts in the Age of Decolonization.

Worlding the Global: The Arts in the Age of Decolonization. Nov. 8th-10th, the Carleton University Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis, in partnership with the institutional members of TrACE (Transnational and Transcultural Art and Culture Exchange), is organizing an international academy designed to collaboratively re-imagine and pluralize... More

Friday, September 13, 2019

Krista Zawadski receives an Inuit Cultural Repatriation Award

Earlier this week Krista Zawadski, PhD student in Cultural Mediations, received the Inuit Cultural Repatriation Award from the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami at their Annual General Meeting in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. This award is presented to an organization or an individual who demonstrates leadership in recognizing and respecting Inuit cultural rights... More

Friday, June 14, 2019

Dr. Kyle Devine, Cultural Mediations Alumnus is interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine

Rolling Stone recently interviewed Dr. Kyle Devine regarding his work exploring the environmental impact of music consumption. You can access the article Is Streaming Music Dangerous to the Environment? One Researching Is Sounding the Alarm here. Dr. Devine graduated from Carleton University with a PhD in Cultural Mediations in 2012 and is... More

Friday, June 14, 2019

Patricia Bérubé is named a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar

Congratulations to Patricia Bérubé, 1st year Cultural Mediations Ph.D.. Patricia was recently named as a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. The Trudeau Foundation describes this prestigious scholarship program as a “… gateway for courageous, bold, original thinkers who seek unconventional experiences beyond the halls of... More

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Carleton Curatorial Laboratory (CCL) / On Location: Human Interventions in the Landscape

Please join us in celebrating the student curators of Curatorial Studies 5001 at the opening of On Location: Human Interventions in the Landscape in the Carleton Curatorial Laboratory on the top floor of the Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG). This group exhibition features photographs by Canadian artists Lorraine Gilbert and Stephen Livick... More

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Cultural Mediations & Curatorial Studies Cognate Courses for 2019-20 are now listed on our websites!

You will find the 2019-20 Cultural Mediations course listings by semester along with a short description and the instructor here. The Curatorial Studies course listings by semester along with a short description can be found here. The list of Curatorial Studies Cognate Course Offerings for 2019-20 can be found on our website and also here.... More

Monday, April 29, 2019

Interface 2019 – (UN)Bound: Interdisciplinary Dialogues

May 3, 2019 — May 4, 2019 Time: 8:00 AM — 5:30 PM Location: Room 3101 and 3400 Canal Building Contact Email: unboundconference2019@gmail.com VIEW MORE INFO → Cultural Mediations PhD Students in the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture are pleased to announce the 2019 iteration of the Interface Graduate... More

Friday, March 22, 2019

Morsels of Memory: A Taste of Ottawa’s Food History March 30, 2019 – April 11, 2019

Morsels of Memory: A Taste of Ottawa’s Food History March 30, 2019 - April 11, 2019 Gallery 112, City of Ottawa Archives - James Bartleman Centre, 100 Tallwood Drive A unique exhibition and culinary experience inviting museum visitors, local history buffs, and foodies to discover Ottawa’s evolving relationship with food, Morsels of Memory... More

Friday, March 22, 2019

Festival of Life for Prof. Pius Adesanmi

In celebration of our beloved colleague, mentor, teacher and friend, Prof. Pius Adesanmi, Carleton University, along with the Institute of African Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of French, are holding a Festival of Life at the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper St, Ottawa, ON, K2P 0G8) on Tuesday, March 26,... More

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Congratulations to Aubrey Anable

Congratulations to film studies (SSAC) and ICSLAC’s professor Aubrey Anable, whose book Playing with Feelings  (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) was awarded the 2019 Society for Cinema & Media Studies First Book Award. For a full description of Dr. Anable’s profile:... More