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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Victoria Nolte聽successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, One Place and Another: Worldmaking in Asian Canadian Contemporary Art. Congratulations from all of us at ICSLAC, Dr. Nolte! Victoria's doctoral project was co-supervised by Professors Sarah Casteel and Ming Tiampo.聽More can be read here about... More
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) and the Department of History invite applications from qualified Indigenous candidates for a preliminary (tenure-track) cross- appointment at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2023, specializing in Indigenous practices in museology, broadly defined. For... More
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Kevin Pat Fong, a doctoral candidate in the Cultural Mediations program, will be giving a talk on alternative comics and how they help shape today's American comics industry at the OPL鈥檚 main branch (room B125) on Thursday February 2 at 6 pm. Kevin鈥檚 doctoral research focuses on the relationship between characters of Asian descent... More
Friday, January 13, 2023
Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Patricia B茅rub茅 successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, 鈥淭owards a more inclusive museum: developing multi-sensory approaches to the visual arts for visually impaired audiences鈥�. Congratulations from all of us at ICSLAC, Dr. B茅rub茅! 聽A Trudeau Foundation Scholar, Patricia was co-supervised by... More
Monday, December 12, 2022
Congratulations to Cultural Mediations alumna,聽Dr. Trina聽Cooper-Bolam, who was recently awarded a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Her postdoctoral research project,聽Storied Transformations: Decolonizing Inherited Space through Memorial Performance, builds upon her doctoral work at 杏吧原创. Responding to the priorities of... More
Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD candidate Victoria Nolte for the publication of her article "Toward a Formal Language of Resonance: Diaspora and Place in the Video Works of Jin-me Yoon." Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall 2022, pp. 91-118. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/861668 For more information on Victoria's... More
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
ICSLAC is kick-starting its 20th anniversary聽with the launch of a Graduate Virtual Bookshelf, showcasing the scholarly and creative work of graduate students from the Cultural Mediations PhD and Curatorial Studies diploma. The bookshelf is intended as a virtual聽library where all students of the Institute can share their publications, exhibitions... More
Monday, December 5, 2022
Interface 2023, an ICSLAC virtual graduate conference The Cultural Inbetween, Exploring Distinctions Within Popular Culture April 27, 2023, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture CFP deadline:聽February 1st 2023 This virtual one-day conference seeks to draw together interdisciplinary graduate presentations to create a... More
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor聽Carol Payne聽(SSAC-Art History/ICSLAC) and Cultural Mediations alumna Dr. Christina Williamson on their recent co-edited book, Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming聽Published with聽McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, Atiqput聽offers聽鈥淎 multigenerational discussion of culture, history,... More
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor聽Barbara Leckie (English/ICSLAC) on the publication of her new book聽Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time聽(Stanford University Press). In this new monograph,聽Barbara Leckie 鈥渃onsiders the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century... More
ICSLAC is delighted to announce that Dr. Philip Kaisary (Laws and Legal Studies/English/ICSLAC) will hold the forthcoming 2023-2025 tenure of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations. A legal, literary, and cultural comparativist, Dr. Kaisary brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms.... More
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
New Publication: Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor Mitchell Frank (SSAC-Art History/ICSLAC) on the publication of his new book聽The Met and the Masses in Postwar America: A Study of the Museum and Popular Art Education (Bloosmburry Press). In his new monograph, Professor Frank 鈥渆xplores the collaborations, during the mid-20th... More
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