Friday, February 20, 2015

A Culture Hub Workshop: Indigenizing the Gallery

There will be a round-table discussion on Friday, February 27th from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM at the Carleton University Art Gallery in St. Patrick's Building. Please join us, admission is free and a small reception will follow. Special guests include: Greg Hill and Christine Lalonde from the National Gallery of Canada, Steve Loft... More

Monday, February 2, 2015

Was Deco Global? A Culture Hub Workshop on Multiple Modernities

Was Deco Global? A Culture Hub Workshop on Multiple Modernities ICSLAC Seminar room 201D, St. Patrick's Building Monday, February 9, 2015 from 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM   Please join us on Monday, February 9, 2015 for a Culture Hub Workshop on Multiple Modernities with Special Guests:    Swati Chattopadhyay, History of Art and Architecture,... More

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Congratulations to Dr. Annette deStecher!

Dr. Anne de Stecher, PhD in Cultural Mediations 2013, has accepted a teaching position at the University of Colorado Boulder in Art History Native North American Visual Arts with a focus on Eastern Woodlands and Inuit Art.  This position follows on her recent Research Fellowship at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, now the Canadian Museum of... More

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Two artists walk into an archive: decolonizing a colonizing space by Stacy Ernst

On Friday, January 23rd at 2:30 PM in Room 412, St. Patrick's Building,  Stacy Earnst, PhD Candidate in Cultural Mediations will give a talk as part of the Friends of Art History Visual Culture Series 2014/15.  "Two artists walk into an archive: decolonizing a colonizing space" will address interventions into the colonial archive by Anishinaabe... More

Monday, January 12, 2015

Dr. John Osborne, Dean of FASS presents a Culture Hub Workshop: Hairstyle as a signifier of identity in 8th century Italy

Please join us on Tuesday, January 20th at 11:30 am for a Culture Hub Workshop by Dr. John Osborne, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences on Hairstyle as a signifier of identity in 8th century Italy. A brief reception will follow. The poster for this event can be viewed... More

Thursday, January 8, 2015

“Art on a Green Line” – curated by ICSLAC PhD Candidate Johnny Alam opens on January 19, 2015

There will be a reception celebrating the opening of “Art on a Green Line,” curated by ICSLAC PhD candidate Johnny Alam, and presented in CUAG’s Carleton Curatorial Laboratory. The exhibition presents the work of contemporary Lebanese artists who came of age during Lebanon’s so-called “civil wars,” which took place from 1975-1990.... More

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Digital Humanities Information Session – December 18 at 3 pm

The Collaborative Master’s in Digital Humanities is hosting an information session for students who are interested in pursuing this specialization as part of a Master’s degree at Carleton on Dec. 18 from 3 – 4 p.m.in 2017 Dunton Tower. We will explain this cutting-edge specialization that helps students rethink how the digital world is... More

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

A Culture Hub Event: A Workshop on The Intersection between Queer Studies and Transnational Studies with Professor Richard Meyer, Stanford University

On January 7th, 2015 Professor Richard Meyer, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University will present a workshop on The Intersection between Queer Studies and Transnational Studies at 3pm in Room 201D, St. Patrick’s Building. This workshop is sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art... More

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Johanna Mizgala, Cultural Mediations PhD student in her other persona

Johanna Mizgala, whom we all know as a PhD student in Cultural Mediations has another life! When she is away from the Institute she is the Curator of the House of Commons.  Here is a lovely short produced by Public Works & Government Services Canada to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War.  You... More

Monday, November 17, 2014

Master Korean percussionist Dong-Won Kim and children from Glebe Montessori School in honour of International Children’s Day (UN)

The Landon Pearson Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights at Carleton Celebrates National Child Day The Landon Pearson Centre at Carleton University will mark National Child Day on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 with music, dance and a panel of speakers who will gather to celebrate the release of two publications –... More

Thursday, November 13, 2014

A Culture Hub Event: Jeff Packman, University of Toronto presents “Playback and Posthuman Grooves: Professional Musicians, Mediated Listening, and the Feel of Music in Salvador, Brazil.”

Jeff Packman (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is an ethnomusicologist who has conducted extensive fieldwork in Bahia, Brazil focusing on professional music making in relation to cultural politics, especially discourses of race and class.  More recently, his research has examined various manifestations of samba de roda, an... More

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Working with Cinematic “Paratexts”

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) and the School for Studies in Art and Culture: Music present a "CULTURE HUB" event: Working with Cinematic “Paratexts": A panel discussion with: James Deaville, Ed Vollans, Agnes Malkinson, Dan Hesford and David Richler. Dr. James Deaville, School for Studies in Art... More

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Roots, Routes & Routers: Social Media and Urban Activism from the Arab Spring to Hong Kong

A Public Talk by Merlyna Lim Drawing on empirical evidence from various contexts globally, such as the Occupy Central protests in Hong Kong, the “Arab Spring”, and the “Bersih” movement in Malaysia, this talk will provide insights to the making of contemporary movements and the importance of networks and spaces in the discourses and... More

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Talk by Wallace K. Ferguson Award Winner – Mark Phillips

The Canadian Historical Association is presenting Historical Research on Canada and Beyond including a talk by our very own Mark Phillips, this year's winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Award.  This event is open to the public and will be held at the Festival Boardroom, Ottawa City Hall at 110 Laurier Avenue West on... More

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Two Views on the Postcolonial: A CultureHub Event in collaboration with French and the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis

CultureHub is very excited to be collaborating with the Department of French and the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis to present Two Views on the Postcolonial, a series of workshops and a keynote lecture by renowned postcolonial scholars Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih from University of California at Los Angeles. Keynote lectures... More

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Colloque international Art Brut et Matérialité: des imaginaires à l’œuvre.

ICSLAC faculty member Dr. Jill Carrick and cotutelle student Pauline Goutain are collaborating with Paris Ouest Nanterre University to present the international conference Art Brut et Matérialité: des imaginaires à l'œuvre, another event supported by CultureHub. This conference will take place on the 27th and 28th of October at the... More

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

“Blacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in the Caribbean Literary Imagination”

Professor Sarah Phillips Casteel of the Department of English, Institute of African Studies and Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture will present "Blacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in  the Caribbean Literary Imagination" on Friday, October 17th, 3:00 p.m., 1811 Dunton Tower (English Department... More

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Terry Smith’s Visit as the Inaugural Sotheby’s Resident in Curatorial Studies

On September 24 & 25, we welcomed Dr. Terry Smith as the Inaugural Sotheby's Resident in Curatorial Studies for two workshops at Carleton and a Keynote Lecture hosted by the National Gallery.  The Carleton Newsroom highlighted his visit with a lovely article by Kristy Strauss.  You can read the full article... More

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Inaugural Sotheby’s Residency in Curatorial Studies with Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh: A CultureHub Event

Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh is coming to Carleton University on September 24th and 25th!  Please join us in welcoming him to the Inaugural Sotheby’s Residency in Curatorial Studies for the following events: A public lecture “Thinking Contemporary Art;... More

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Congratuations to Dr. Ming Tiampo

Ming Tiampo's recent exhibition wins prestigious Art Critics Association award for Gutai: Splendid Playground exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2013. Fore more information, see here. Congratulations Ming!... More

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Cynthia Hammond: Making Space: Activism, Landscape and Women’s History

Please join us in supporting Professor Cynthia Hammond from Concordia University as she presents Making Space: Activism, Landscape and Women's History on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 4 pm in the Carleton University Art Gallery. You can view the event poster... More