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McCarthy Lecture: The work of Art in postcolonial imagination
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
| Location: | Room 238 Azrieli Pavilion |
| Audience: | Anyone, Carleton Community, Staff and Faculty |
| Key Contact: | Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Contact Email: | iis@carleton.ca |
Plea
se join us on Wednesday, November 19th, in Azrieli Pavilion, Room 238, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Dr. Cameron McCarthy, Professor Emeritus from the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, will visit Carleton to deliver a talk entitled, “The work of art in postcolonial imagination: Notes towards globalizing curriculum and aesthetics.” Dr. McCarthy’s talk will explore the significance of postcolonial art for thinking about the challenges of modern life and the school curriculum. His lecture raises and discusses the following question: what theoretical and practical purchase might an ethnographic evaluation of postcolonial art yield? To advance this line of inquiry, Dr. McCarthy will examine postcolonial exemplars: novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, and musicians from the Global South and the periphery of the metropole. His talk will address anti-Blackness, visual cultures, and public pedagogy.