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

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

ICSLAC in the news

ICSLAC in the news: Dr. Monica Patterson, ICSLAC’s professor and Assistant Director for Curatorial Studies, contributes a timely piece to The Conversation about souvenirs and racism in Cuba. You can find her full article here: Spring breakers import Cuban rum, cigars and racist... More

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Carleton University Research Achievement Awards

Our warmest congratulations to ICSLAC Professor and Cultural Mediations Graduate Supervisor Dr. Sarah Casteel, who was awarded a prestigious Carleton University Research Achievement Awards for 2019. For further details on Dr. Casteel’s current research:... More

Friday, February 1, 2019

Patricia Bérubé’s earlier research is featured in the The Globe and Mail

  Patricia Bérubé, a Cultural Mediations PhD student, received media coverage for her earlier research on accessibility and the visual arts. She was recently featured as part of The Globe and Mail’s “Stepping Up” series, which “aims to shine a spotlight on Canadians offering inspiration and leadership across the country.” Building... More

Friday, January 25, 2019

Congratulations to Jenna Stidwill and her supervisor, Dr. Brian Greenspan

Warmest congratulations to Jenna Stidwill and her supervisor, Dr. Brian Greenspan, on the successful defence of her doctoral thesis (PhD in Cultural Mediations, Visual Culture) “Beyond Mickey Mouse History”: The Disney Archive and the Construction of Animation History as Discipline,... More

Monday, November 12, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Joana Pimentel and her supervisor, Dr. Catherine Khordoc

Warmest congratulations to Dr. Joana Pimentel and her supervisor, Dr. Catherine Khordoc, on the successful defence of her doctoral thesis (PhD in Cultural Mediations, Literary Studies) "Transcultural Bodies: A Comparative Approach to Dissident 'Minor' women's Writings in Portuguese, Italian, and... More

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The Graduate Steering Committee for the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis is pleased to invite you to “Why and How We are Here?: Contemporary African Art at the Venice Biennale,” a panel discussion and presentation by Amarildo Ajasse (Ca' Foscari University of Venice). The panel will take place Monday, July 23rd 2018 from 10:00am -... More

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Book Launch: The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War

Please join us Thursday, July 19th from 4:00-6:00pm in 201D St. Patrick's for the Ottawa launch of The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War, written by Dr. Asato Ikeda, Assistant Professor of Art History at Fordham University. The Politics of Painting examines a set of paintings produced in Japan during the... More

Friday, June 15, 2018

New Cultural Mediations Course Abroad: Heritage and Memory in Canada and Central Europe

  CLMD 6106F/CDNS 5003C/ARCH 5100F: Issues in History and Culture- Heritage and Memory in Canada and Central Europe Instructor: Jerzy Elzanowski The goal of this course abroad is to juxtapose experiences of urban space devoted to recording and performing public memory in order to gain insight into cultural heritage theory and practice.  The... More

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Sun K. Kwak’s Show Curated by Euijung McGillis Reviewed in the Globe and Mail

Read the review in the Globe and Mail for Sun K. Kwak's Untying Space_CUAG show, curated by Cultural Mediations student Euijung McGillis. The life and death of Sun K. Kwak's art. Additional Reading Ottawa Art Report: Making Spaces Speak - Canadian Art... More

Monday, November 13, 2017

Dr. Thomas Everrett: Sound by Design at the Science and Technology Museum

As the Science and Technology Museum prepares to reopen to the public on November 17th, CBC Radio Morning was interested in one of the new exhibits Sound by Design curated by Dr. Tom Everrett, PhD in Cultural Mediations (2014). You can refer to Dr. Everrett’s dissertation, entitled Ears Wide Shut: Headphones and Moral Design here. You can... More

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Cultural Transfers Workshop Series: “From Old to New Worlds”

Cultural Transfers Workshop Series: “From Old to New Worlds” November 17, 2017 at 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Location: 201D (ICSLAC Seminar Room) St. Patrick's Building Cost: Free Audience: Anyone The Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) invite you to attend the... More

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

The Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Focus on Curatorial Studies & Cultural Mediations

The Carleton FASS Newsletter is highlighting two Cultural Mediations PhD students in today's issue. The FASS Newsletter is produced by and for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. and covers the news, events and accomplishments of FASS faculty, staff and students. For more information contact Nick Ward. You can read about our new Curatorial... More

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Curating the Canadian Biennial: Jonathan Shaughnessy, PhD student in Cultural Mediations Takes Lead

Congratulations to Jonathan Shaughnessy, associate curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada and PhD student in our own Cultural Mediations program on the recent opening of the Canadian Biennial exhibit. Jonathan is the lead curator for the 2017 Canadian Biennial and Amy Bruce, also a PhD student in Cultural Mediations had... More

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Sarah Thorne, PhD Candidate in Cultural Mediations: Storytelling and Video Games

Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate, Sarah Thorne's research on narrative and  is featured in TheGraduate@Carleton newsletter, however you can read the full article here.  Sarah is supervised by Brian Greenspan and has been active in the Hyperlab run by Dr.... More

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

ICSLAC Collaborative Events for 2016-17

The following is a list of all our collaborative events during the last two years. This information is part of the President’s Annual Report to the Carleton University Board of Governors 2016-2017.    Gringo Gulch Book Launch: Megan Rivers-Moor, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies (cosponsored with POWER, SAW Gallery, PJWGS)... More

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

The Diploma in Curatorial Studies has come to ICSLAC!

Carleton University recently announced two new Graduate Diplomas in Curatorial Studies which we are so pleased to host in our very own Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture along with our PhD in Cultural Mediations!  You can read the full announcement here.  The deadline to apply for either the Type 2 or... More

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Curatorial Studies (CURA) Courses Announced

For more information, visit the Curatorial Studies page. Courses Fall Courses CURA 5000: Curatorial Studies Proseminar This proseminar explores a range of historical, social, economic, educational, ethical, legal, technological and administrative issues concerning the world of museums and related institutions. CURA 5011: Curatorial Studies... More

Thursday, April 27, 2017

In the News: EJ McGillis and Dr. Heather Igloliorte

Congratulations to EuiJung McGillis, Cultural Mediations PhD student, is credited for her work as a research assistant for the PhotoLab 2: Women Speaking Art  exhibition currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada. You can find the NGC magazine article here. In other news, Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Assistant Professor and Research Chair in... More

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Congratulations Cecile Wilson!

Warm congratulations to Cultural Mediations doctoral candidate Cecile Wilson, who was one of the top ten finalists in yesterday's Three Minute Thesis competition! Competition was fierce this year, so well done... More