Wednesday, October 19, 2016

What do a PhD in Cultural Mediations, a Masters in Communications and the National Gallery of Canada have in common?

Of course the answer is Jonathan Shaughnessy! Like many of our PhD students in Cultural Mediations, Jonathan embodies the interdisciplinary nature of our PhD program. As a graduate of the Masters in Communications at Carleton University and a current student in Cultural Mediations,  Jonathan  brings a unique perspective to his position... More

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Cara Tierney: Turning tables on the “heterosexist gaze”

Congratulations to our very own Cara Tierney. Before embarking on their PhD in Cultural Mediations, they were hard at work curating TRANSACTIONS for the Carleton University Art Gallery. Highlighting this accomplishment is an article currently on Carleton's main... More

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Prof. Casteel receives Canadian Jewish Literary Award

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Casteel on receiving the 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in Scholarship for Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia University Press). The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards was founded by a group of prominent writers, editors and scholars to celebrate the vibrancy of Jewish... More

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

2016 Carleton University Teaching Award for Professor Shawn Graham

Please join us in congratulating Shawn Graham, from the Department of History, who has received the Provost's Fellowship in Teaching Award for leadership and commitment to teaching and learning. Professor Graham led the Digital Humanities core course and professional development courses this year! You can view all the 2016 Teaching Award Winners... More

Friday, May 6, 2016

Canadian Museums Association Award Winners

Congratulations to both Brian Foss, Director of the School for Studies in Art and Culture, Professor of Art History and for the Institute for Comparative Studies in Art and Culture who, along with Jacques Des Rocher, curator of Quebec and Canadian Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, received the Award of Outstanding Achievement... More

Monday, April 11, 2016

Reassembling Indigenous Heritage

Reassembling Indigenous Heritage is a wonderful article on the work of our own Dr. Ruth Phillips. Written by Nicole Findlay, the article explains some of Ruth's work as the Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture along with the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) and their partners the... More

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Decolonizing Lusophone Africa – Cultural Transfers Workshop

Cultural Transfers is a workshop series that features faculty and student research associated with the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University. The series is co-organized by the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, and the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis.... More

Thursday, March 31, 2016

An Outstanding TA Award for Christina Williamson!

Please join us in congratulating Christina Williamson, Cultural Mediations, who has recently received an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. This is a wonderful honour as only 5 awards were awarded to a pool of almost 200 nominations! For more information - the formal announcement can be found... More

Monday, March 28, 2016

Shirley Thomson Memorial Lecture with Dr. Mari Carmen Ramírez

Dr. Mari Carmen Ramírez,  Wortham Curator of Latin American Art Director, International Center for the Arts of the Americas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is coming to Ottawa! Please join us for a Public Lecture on March 30, 2016 and a Workshop on March 31, 2016 with Dr. Mari Carmen Ramírez for From “Identity” to... More

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Serendipity: Chance Encounters in the Digital Humanities by Kim Martin

Join us for the story of one scholar’s adventures down a path that joins Digital Humanities, Serendipity Studies and the Maker Movement, where the moral of the story is: If you see a chance, take it.  Kim Martin, the Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph. Tuesday, March 8 from... More

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Calypso Jews Book Launch – March 8th

Please join us on March 8th, 2016 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (History Lounge, Room 433, Paterson Hall) at a Book Launch for Dr. Sarah Phillips-Casteel's recent book Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination published by Columbia University Press. ICSLAC is pleased to partner with the Institute of African Studies and the... More

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

“Sexuality, Aesthetics, and Embodies Resistance: A Screening of Four Short Films”

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, the School for Studies in Art and Culture, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture present… “Sexuality, Aesthetics, and Embodied Resistance: A Screening of Four Short Films” Carleton University River Building Theatre Friday, February 26, 2016 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.:... More

Monday, February 22, 2016

Symposium on the cinema of Med Hondo

Carleton University Film Studies & World Cinema Forum present “The Indocile Image: A Retrospective and a Symposium on the Cinema of Med Hondo” 6 Days – 6 Films, including a two-day Symposium. Med Hondo in attendance. February 22- 27, 2016 Films include: Soleil O (1970) – West Indies (1979) – Sarraounia (1986) Lumière Noire... More

Monday, February 22, 2016

The Voice in Cinema, Television, and New Media

School for Studies in Art and Culture – Film Studies presents a Seminar: The Voice in Cinema, Television, and New Media Friday 26 February 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. 472 St. Patrick’s Building The seminar will feature the following talks: Charles O’Brien, “The Dubbed Voice” Gunnar Iversen, “The Concept of the Voice of God: A... More

Monday, February 8, 2016

PhD Candidate Johanna Mizgala on CBC Radio

One of our own PhD Candidates, Johanna Mizgala, was interviewed by Alan Neal on CBC Ottawa's All in a day on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 about the 100th anniversary of the fire that destroyed Parliament's Centre Block. Johanna is the Curator of the House of Commons Heritage Collection. You can hear the full interview... More

Monday, February 8, 2016

Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Phillips-Casteel on the recent release of her most recent book Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination published by Columbia University Press.  Details on the book launch will be posted when they are available. For additional information, see the Columbia University Press site... More

Monday, February 8, 2016

2016 GRIT Award Winner from ICSLAC: Johnny El Alam

Congratulations to the six winners of this year’s Graduate Research and Innovative Thinking (GRIT) awards but in particular one of our own - Johnny El Alam. The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs created these awards for outstanding Carleton PhD students at the ABD stage of their research (all comprehensive exams have been completed... More

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

“Paris as a Hub of Global Cinema” by Professor Dîna Iordanova

Professor Dîna Iordanova (University of St. Andrews) will present "Paris as a Hub of Global Cinema." Professor Iordanova is a world-renowned scholar of Eastern European and global cinema who is responsible for helping to establish film festival studies as a thriving subfield of film and media studies. The full poster can be seen here. Please... More

Monday, November 16, 2015

Media and the Night by Will Straw, McGill University

Media, even in the digital age, take their place within what the French geographer Luc Gwiazdzinski has called a “chrono-urbanism”, the differentiation of urban time across the 24-hour cycle. This paper will look at the ways in which different media have engaged with night-time in cities, through distinctive forms, formats, and styles of... More

Friday, November 6, 2015

Book Launch Nov 17 – Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope

When: November 17, 2015 Time: 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM Location: Paterson Hall Room: 433 (History Lounge) Cost: Free Intended Audience: Anyone Event contact: Shawn Graham Email contact: shawn.graham@carleton.ca Phone contact: 613-520-2828 More information available here With colleagues Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo) and Scott Weingart (Indiana... More

Friday, October 23, 2015

Researching a Red Market in the Digital Age

Smithsonian archaeologist to visit Carleton to speak about his work investigating the online trade in human remains on sites like Instagram. These days, it is said that you can find anything online. The research of Dr. Damien Huffer, post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute and Department of... More

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Julius Freund (1869-1941) and the Fate of a German-Jewish Art Collection

Julius Freund (1869-1941) and the Fate of a German-Jewish Art Collection: Nathalie Neumann  National Gallery of Canada, Lecture Hall, Thursday, October 22, 6:00 pm  This lecture discusses the history of the textile merchant Julius Freund’s famous collection of art, which included many German Romantic drawings and painting.  Freund, the... More

Friday, October 9, 2015

Did you know: The Director’s Fund for Students in the PhD in Cultural Mediations?

We now have a fund to support Cultural Mediations students in need. If you are interested in giving to the Director's Fund - Cultural Mediations, you can donate in a one time gift or by payroll deduction which is a simple and effective method to contribute significantly over time with a small donation.  This fund has been... More

Friday, October 9, 2015

Dr. Ruth Phillips – 2015 CMA Lifetime Achievement/Distinguished Service Award Winner

Our very own Ruth Phillips (ICSLAC and SSAC), has received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement/Distinguished Service Award from the Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA). This is a new award for the CMA to recognize members whose careers demonstrate extraordinary achievements that have advanced museum anthropology and all nominations are evaluated based... More

Friday, October 9, 2015

ICSLAC Faculty Win Carleton University Research Prize

The Migration and Diaspora Studies Steering Committee recently received the Building Connection Award, which is given to “an individual or a team who has made an outstanding contribution through a history of achieving exceptional success in building relationships and connections which have had a sustained impact both over time and across... More

Friday, October 9, 2015

Did you know? Mocassin Vamps in Walking With Our Sisters Exhibit

Did you know that one of our PhD Cultural Mediations students took part in a beading circle in Aberdeen, Scotland which resulted in these beautiful mocassin vamps currently on display with the Walking With Our Sisters exhibit at the Carleton University Art Gallery? You can view Christina Williamson's vamps with those created and donated by... More

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

“After #CadaanStudies: Decolonizing and Democratizing Area Studies” (an ICSLAC Workshop)

The Institute of African Studies, the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) and Sahan Literary Forum present “After #CadaanStudies: Decolonizing and Democratizing Area Studies” (an ICSLAC Workshop) with Safia Aidid, PhD Candidate, Harvard University Date: Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 Time: 11:30 a.m. Location:... More

Friday, October 2, 2015

From Dreams to Realities: Performing History in the Assassin’s Creed® video game series

The History Department is hosting a Shannon Lecture by Maxime Durand of Ubisoft Montreal Friday, October 23, 2015 in the Multi Media Lab, Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library for more information see... More

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Dr. Kobena Mercer: Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s: Critical Reflections on a Journey

The Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis Presents: Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s: Critical Reflections on a Journey Dr. Kobena Mercer, History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University and FASS Distinguished Visiting Professor Public Lecture— October 5, 2015 6:00 pm, Lecture Hall, National Gallery of Canada... More

Friday, September 18, 2015

Welcome!

Please join us: Welcome to ICSLAC! Who: All Digital Humanities and Cultural Mediations students, faculty members, committee members When: Friday, September 25 from 3 pm to 5 pm Where: 201 St. Patrick's Building... More

Friday, September 18, 2015

Grant Writing Workshop

This is a reminder that the Cultural Mediations Grant Writing Workshop is scheduled for Monday, September 21st at 11:30 am in the ICSLAC Seminar... More

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Dr. Kyle Devine, Associate Professor at the University of Oslo

Dr. Kyle Devine recently accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. Kyle completed his PhD at ICSLAC in 2012, after which he worked as a postdoc with the Music and Digitization Research Group at the University of Oxford (where he also taught at Worcester College)... More

Friday, May 22, 2015

Cultural Mediations Graduate Dr. Matthew Croombs awarded a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

Dr. Matthew Croombs completed his dissertation, “An Opposition in Search of Itself: Modern French Cinema and the Algerian War” in the fall of 2013. In the spring of 2015, he will begin a two year postdoctoral project with the Film Studies Department at King’s College London. His new project, “Archaeologies of Resistance: René Vautier and... More

Friday, March 13, 2015

About Dawn’s Blog

Dawn Schmidt is the Departmental Administrator in ICSLAC and she is the source of information for all things paperwork from admissions to convocation and all points in between.  From academic event planner to website management, scheduling and budget, Dawn is involved in most things that happen in the Institute.  This blog will update you on... More

Thursday, February 26, 2015

ICSLAC’s Cultural Mediations Students and the Carleton University Art Gallery

We know how important the Carleton University Art Gallery is to our Visual Culture stream of Cultural Mediations PhD students, it is lovely to see that we have a role to play for CUAG as well!  Two of our current students, Pauline Goutain and Lisa Truong are highlighted in the February issue of Carleton Now.... More