The听Institute for Comparative Literature, Art and Culture听(ICSLAC) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Birgit Hopfener (SSAC/ICSLAC) as the inaugural holder of the听Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations. This exciting new position is intended to provide an ICSLAC faculty member with the opportunity to shape a doctoral seminar and year-long program of intellectual engagement around their ongoing interdisciplinary research.听Dr. Hopfener,听an art historian of contemporary art and theory in the global context, will be focusing her two-year tenure on critical temporalities. She invites students, faculty as well as other colleagues and friends to explore how scholarly writing, art and cultural artifacts engage with the temporal heterogeneity of our time, its socio-political, geo-political and historical conditions and the multiplicity of temporal assumptions that shape us, art and knowledges. Entitled听The Temporal Diversity of our Time. Pluralizing time and unlearning the modern Western temporal regime,听her graduate seminar will be offered in the fall of 2021, with more information to follow around the program of events enhancing the seminar throughout the 21-22 academic year. The听Professorship in Cultural Mediations is named in honour of Professors Emeriti听Ruth Phillips听and听Mark Phillips, two long-time ICSLAC faculty members听whose lasting contributions shaped the Cultural Mediations听program听as a haven for听innovative doctoral research听that challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries.听For more information鈥�