The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture houses the Cultural Mediations Ph.D. This interdisciplinary doctoral program is designed to advance knowledge and understanding of that body of cultural theory and those cultural practices that inform literary studies, cinema studies and work in music, art history and new media, along with the historical, intellectual and social frames of reference that this work invokes.
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Ottawa Art Gallery Exhibition Curated by Cultural Mediations Student
“Decolonize Me,” an exhibition curated by Cultural Mediations student Heather Igloliorte, opened recently at the Ottawa Art Gallery and runs until November 20. The exhibition features the work of six contemporary Aboriginal artists that explores issues of colonization and decolonization and their impacts on Aboriginal and settler Canadian identity. For more information on the exhibition ... more
Living Stereo: Call for Papers
Living Stereo is a symposium organized by the Sound Studies Group, ICSLAC set for March 9-11, 2012. We are currently accepting proposals for paper presentations. Please submit to livingstereo@connect.carleton.ca by Monday, October 24, 2011.
Cultural Mediations Student Hired at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Jeremy Maron has been hired as Research Assistant to Dr. Clint Curle, Researcher, at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Jeremy recently defended his dissertation, which looked at the treatment of the Holocaust in Canadian Cinema. At the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Jeremy will be researching, organizing and contextualizing materials to ... more
Two recent CLMD PhD graduates receive Postdoctoral Fellowships
Julia Pine has been awarded a two-year, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to do research on the war-era paintings (Spanish Civil War and WWII) of Salvador Dali. Julia received her Ph.D. degree in Cultural Mediations in 2009. Her dissertation was entitled: “An ‘Anecdotic Self-Portrait’: Strategies of Disclosure in The Secret Life of Salvador Dali.” Alex Wetmore successfully ... more
Julia Pine and Robert Evans, ICSLAC doctoral candidates, each won one of the competitive National Gallery of Canada Fellowships
Three students from the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture are currently making their mark at the National Gallery of Canada. Julia Pine, who deposited her dissertation in March, along with current studet, Robert Evans each won one of the competitive National Gallery of Canada Fellowships. While at the Gallery, they’ll be ... more