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“Art on a Green Line”– curated by ICSLAC PhD Candidate Johnny Alam opens on...

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...

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Dr. John Osborne, Dean of FASS presents a Culture Hub Workshop: Hairstyle as...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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...

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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...

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“After #CadaanStudies: Decolonizing and Democratizing Area Studies” (an...

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...

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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...

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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...

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

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...

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

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...

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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...

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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....

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Cultural Transfers Workshops 2015/2016

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...

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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:...

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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...

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