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Serendipity: Chance Encounters in the Digital Humanities by Kim Martin

dawnschmidt — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:40:34 +0000

Join us for the story of one scholar’s adventures down a path that joins Digital Humanities, Serendipity Studies and the Maker Movement, where the moral of the story is: If you see a chance, take it. Kim Martin, the Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph.

Tuesday, March 8 from 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm

The Discovery Centre, Room 482

MacOdrum Library, 4th Floor

This talk is sponsored by the Discovery Centre, the Hyperlab, the Digital Rhetorics and Ethics Lab, and the Collaborative Masters program in Digital Humanities. To see the poster for this event, see

“Sexuality, Aesthetics, and Embodies Resistance: A Screening of Four Short Films”

dawnschmidt — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:42:38 +0000

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, the School for Studies in Art and Culture, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture present…

“Sexuality, Aesthetics, and Embodied Resistance: A Screening of Four Short Films”

�Ӱ�ԭ�� University River Building Theatre
Friday, February 26, 2016
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.: Reception
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.: Screenings and Discussion with Filmmakers
ASL, barrier free space, all films are captioned, please help make this a scent free space.

With the support of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Departments of History, Law and Legal Studies, and Sociology and Anthropology.

RSVP below, and for more information, email: embodiedresistance@gmail.com.

Program

Akin (Canada, Chase Joynt, 2012)
My Father, Francis (Canada, Casey Mecija, 2013)
Holy Mother My Mother (Canada, Vivek Shraya, 2014)
GIMP Boot Camp (Canada, Melisa Brittain & Danielle Peers, 2008)

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Media and the Night by Will Straw, McGill University

dawnschmidt — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 18:59:44 +0000

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 paper will look at the ways in which different media have engaged with night-time in cities, through distinctive forms, formats, and styles of storytelling.

Please join us on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 in Room 201D, ICSLAC Seminar Room, St. Patrick’s Building at 11:30 AM

is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and a Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill as well as an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.

This talk is sponsored by the Department of Canadian Studies and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. To view the full poster, see

Researching a Red Market in the Digital Age

dawnschmidt — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:23:00 +0000

Smithsonian archaeologist to visit �Ӱ�ԭ�� 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. The research of Dr. Damien Huffer, post-doctoral fellow at the and , as well as colleagues at the , , and the , certainly adds clout to this theory.

Huffer, who will visit �Ӱ�ԭ�� on October 22-23, 2015 is sponsored by the and the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, has been collaboratively researching the illicit trade of ethnographic and archeological human remains through online platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and eBay.

The practice of purchasing and selling the physical remains of those who have passed is but a subset of a much larger global emporium of the human body known as the “red market.” The red market includes the sale of everything from human blood, organs and tissues to the trafficking of living human beings. Though there is a significant amount of academic study and effort put towards understanding the illegal channels of commerce used to buy and sell rare antiquities, Huffer explains that much less is known about the shadowy trade of the dead that exists within today’s red market.

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

dawnschmidt — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 15:11:49 +0000

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 recognize members whose careers demonstrate extraordinary achievements that have advanced museum anthropology and all nominations are evaluated based on the nominee’s impact to the disciple of museum anthropology; their service provided to specific museums and their work in mentoring and influencing or inspiring the careers of students and colleagues.

Congratulations from all of us, Ruth, on achieving this level of recognition!

“After #CadaanStudies: Decolonizing and Democratizing Area Studies” (an ICSLAC Workshop)

dawnschmidt — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:25:28 +0000

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 Area Studies” (an ICSLAC Workshop) with Safia Aidid, PhD Candidate, Harvard University

Date: Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: Room 201D, St. Patrick’s Building

�Ӱ�ԭ�� #CadaanStudies: In March 2015, the hashtag #CadaanStudies (translated to #whitestudies) sparked a fierce social media debate around the globe to discuss “questions of power, authority and knowledge production about the Somali territories” and the continued marginalization of Somalis in academic discourse. The conversations generated by #CadaanStudies activism has revealed a new generation of young Somali scholars in the diaspora – multilingual, well versed in Western academia and able to speak back. It has also been a moment which has democratized discussions about knowledge production and the academic field of Somali Studies through social media, as Somalis reacted, responded, engaged and claimed a stake in academic knowledge production about them. These events will reflect on #CadaanStudies and its relevance to decolonizing knowledge production and the importance of public scholarship and engagement.

To view the poster, please see

Welcome!

dawnschmidt — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:44:20 +0000

Please join us: Welcome to ICSLAC!

Who: All Digital Humanities and Cultural Mediations students, faculty members, committee members

When: Friday, September 25 from 3 pm to 5 pm

Where: 201 St. Patrick’s Building

�Ӱ�ԭ�� Dawn’s Blog

dawnschmidt — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:46:28 +0000

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 planner to website management, scheduling and budget, Dawn is involved in most things that happen in the Institute. This blog will update you on recent faculty, student, and alumni successes and provide information about the programs, what you need to do and when as a Cultural Mediations or a Digital Humanities student. Stay in touch and keep Dawn informed on what is happening in your research so that we can all share in your progress!