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Thursday, November 12, 2020

To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive

As part of The Stonecraft Symposium's To be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive, 杏吧原创 University Art Gallery is hosting a Henna Party with Cultural Mediations PhD candidate and artist, Pansee Atta whose work in this exhibit explores the unstated queerness inherent in henna practice. This workshop includes a talk on the history of and... More

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Disruptions 05: Elwood Jimmy on Imagining Wiser Futures Through the Senses

杏吧原创 University Art Gallery recently hosted a participatory workshop led by Toronto-based artist and activity Elwood Jimmy. This is the fifth event in CUAG's "Disruptions: Dialogues on Disability Art" series, curated by Michael Orsini to generate dialogue about contemporary art as a force for challenging ableism. You can find more information... More

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Externally funded opportunity for 2021 applicants in the Cultural Mediations PhD program

The Trans Mediascapes team is seeking an incoming PhD student to lead front end development and analysis for the聽Transgender Media Portal. For all information regarding this funded opportunity please refer to the聽Transgender Media... More

Thursday, October 22, 2020

To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive at CUAG

Congratulations to Cara Tierney, PhD candidate in Cultural Mediations co-curator with Anna Shah Hoque of 鈥淭o Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive鈥� at the 杏吧原创 University Art Gallery. running from September 24 鈥� December 12, 2020.To find out more about this exhibition, see here. You can listen to weekly podcasts of this project here:... More

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Summer 2020 Doctoral Awards

Some sincere congratulations to the following Cultural Mediations Students: Andras Memorial Award:聽 Marie-Catherine Allard: Remediating Memory: Narrating the Kindertransport in Literature and Popular Culture Director鈥檚 Fund in Cultural Mediations: Adiba Faizi: The Other聽Other: Politics of Representation of Self-Flagellation as part of the... More

Monday, September 14, 2020

Guest Lecture: Thinking Modernity from the Perspective of the Capitalocene

Please join us in welcoming guest lecturer聽Professor Nick Lawrence聽from the University of Warwick Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Department. Thinking Modernity from the Perspective of the Capitalocene This talk examines a cluster of related concepts 鈥� modernity, 鈥榚nlightenment,鈥� the Anthropocene 鈥� in response to... More

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Focus on publications: Fighting Sleep. The War for the Mind and the US Military

  Focus on publications: congratulations to ICSLAC professor聽Franny Nudelman聽(English/ICSLAC) on the publication of her new monograph,聽Fighting Sleep. The War for the Mind and the US Military,聽published by聽Verso Books聽and reviewed in the聽Los Angeles Review of... More

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Focus on grants and research: Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation

Focus on grants and research:聽 Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation is an internationally-funded research project spearheaded by ICSLAC professors聽Birgit Hopfener and Ming Tiampo,聽leading members of the Transnational and Transcultural Art and Culture Exchange聽(TrACE). Read more:聽Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and... More

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR RUTH PHILLIPS ON HER RETIREMENT聽

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture extends its warm congratulations to Professor Ruth Phillips on her retirement. A聽fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and co-founder of the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC), Professor Phillips (ICSLAC/SSAC/Sociology and... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Congrats to our 2020 Graduates!

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Thursday, June 18, 2020

K. Ulujuk Zawadski wins Polar Northern Resident Scholarship

Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, a PhD student in Cultural Mediations, has been awarded a Polar Northern Resident Scholarship from the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) for her research on Qatiktalik: Nexus of Colonial Encounters. Krista is one of three 杏吧原创 PhD students who have been awarded scholarships from ACUNS.... More

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Congratulations to M. Purvis

Some warm聽congratulations聽to Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Matthew Purvis (and his Supervisor, Dr. Brian Foss) for the successful defence of his doctoral thesis John Boyle, Greg Curnoe and Joyce Wieland: Erotic Art and English Canadian... More

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