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

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Podcast with Dr. Monica Eileen Patterson on Weeding as Anti-Racist Practice

Curatorial Studies professor Monica Eileen Patterson was recently interviewed by Carleton librarian Martha Attridge Bufton about collection management and anti-racist practice in relation to Patterson's recent article in the Conversation about the controversial decision of Dr. Seuss Enterprises to halt publication of six titles containing... More

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Fall 2021 Call for Applications (funding available)

We are currently considering applications for funded doctoral positions in the PhD program in Cultural Mediations for the fall of 2021. Deadline: ongoing (while funding is available) until July 19th, 2021. Domestic applications only (Canadian citizenship or permanent residency). For further information regarding funding, the program itself and... More

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Contract Instructor Opportunities, 2021-22

Contract Instructor Opportunities, 2021-22 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 5000, Curatorial... More

Monday, May 31, 2021

Congratulations to our 20-21 Graduates

Our warmest congratulations to 20-21 graduates from the PhD program in Cultural Mediations and the Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies. Read... More

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

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

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