{"id":1209,"date":"2013-03-27T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:02:51","slug":"johnny-el-alam-cultural-mediations-phd-candidate-selected-for-sshrc-storytellers-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/2013\/johnny-el-alam-cultural-mediations-phd-candidate-selected-for-sshrc-storytellers-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny El-Alam, Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Selected for SSHRC Storytellers Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Johnny El-Alam, Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Selected for SSHRC Storytellers Challenge\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Congratulations to Johnny El-Alam, 2nd year PhD candidate in Visual Culture who was recently selected for the SSHRC Storytellers Challenge!&nbsp; Johnny is currently studying relations between art, memory, war, trauma and the nation. The case study that he submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council&nbsp;(SSHRC) examined Canadian artists of Lebanese heritage who represent the Lebanese civil wars, comparing them to other transnational Canadian artists who represent similar traumas. Among many questions El-Alam wished to explore is why this art is successful and how it reflects upon Canadian identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2013\/03\/25\/carleton-grad-student-selected-for-sshrc-storytellers-challenge\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Johnny El-Alam, 2nd year PhD candidate in Visual Culture who was recently selected for the SSHRC Storytellers Challenge!&nbsp; Johnny is currently studying relations between art, memory, war, trauma and the nation. The case study that he submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council&nbsp;(SSHRC) examined Canadian artists of Lebanese heritage who represent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}