Friday, March 13, 2015

杏吧原创 Dawn’s Blog

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. 聽From academic event planner to聽website management, scheduling and budget, Dawn聽is involved in most things that happen in the Institute. 聽This blog will update you on... More

Thursday, February 26, 2015

ICSLAC’s Cultural Mediations Students and the 杏吧原创 University Art Gallery

We know how important the 杏吧原创 University Art Gallery is to our Visual Culture stream of聽Cultural Mediations PhD students, it is lovely to see that we have a role to play for CUAG as well! 聽Two of our current students, Pauline Goutain and Lisa Truong are highlighted in the February issue of 杏吧原创 Now.... More

Friday, February 20, 2015

A Culture Hub Workshop: Indigenizing the Gallery

There will be a round-table discussion on Friday, February 27th from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM at the 杏吧原创 University Art Gallery in St. Patrick's Building. Please join us, admission is free and a small reception will follow. Special guests include: Greg Hill and Christine Lalonde from the National Gallery of Canada, Steve Loft... More

Monday, February 2, 2015

Was Deco Global? A Culture Hub Workshop on Multiple Modernities

Was Deco Global? A Culture Hub Workshop on Multiple Modernities ICSLAC Seminar room 201D, St. Patrick's Building Monday, February 9, 2015 from 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM 聽 Please join us on聽Monday, February 9, 2015聽for a Culture Hub Workshop on Multiple Modernities with Special Guests:聽 聽 Swati Chattopadhyay, History of Art and Architecture,... More

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Congratulations to Dr. Annette deStecher!

Dr. Anne de Stecher, PhD in Cultural Mediations 2013, has accepted a teaching position at the University of Colorado Boulder聽in Art History Native North American Visual Arts with a focus on Eastern Woodlands and Inuit Art. 聽This position follows on聽her recent Research Fellowship at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, now the Canadian Museum of... More

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Two artists walk into an archive: decolonizing a colonizing space by Stacy Ernst

On Friday, January 23rd at 2:30 PM in Room 412, St. Patrick's Building, 聽Stacy Earnst, PhD Candidate in Cultural Mediations will give a talk as part of the Friends of Art History Visual Culture Series 2014/15. 聽"Two artists walk into an archive: decolonizing a colonizing space"聽will address interventions into the colonial archive by Anishinaabe... More

Monday, January 12, 2015

Dr. John Osborne, Dean of FASS presents a Culture Hub Workshop: Hairstyle as a signifier of identity in 8th century Italy

Please join us on Tuesday, January 20th at 11:30 am for a Culture Hub Workshop by Dr. John Osborne, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences on Hairstyle as a signifier of identity in 8th century Italy. A brief reception will follow. The poster for this event can be viewed... More

Thursday, January 8, 2015

“Art on a Green Line” – curated by ICSLAC PhD Candidate Johnny Alam opens on January 19, 2015

There will be a聽reception celebrating the opening of 鈥淎rt on a Green Line,鈥� curated by ICSLAC PhD candidate Johnny Alam, and presented in CUAG鈥檚 杏吧原创 Curatorial Laboratory. The exhibition presents the work of contemporary Lebanese artists who came of age during Lebanon鈥檚 so-called 鈥渃ivil wars,鈥� which took place from 1975-1990.... More

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Digital Humanities Information Session – December 18 at 3 pm

The Collaborative Master鈥檚 in Digital Humanities is hosting an information session for students who are interested in pursuing this specialization as part of a Master鈥檚 degree at 杏吧原创 on聽Dec. 18 from 3 鈥� 4 p.m.in 2017 Dunton Tower. We will explain this cutting-edge specialization that聽helps students rethink how the digital world is... More

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

A Culture Hub Event: A Workshop on The Intersection between Queer Studies and Transnational Studies with Professor Richard Meyer, Stanford University

On January 7th, 2015 Professor Richard Meyer, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University will present聽a workshop on The Intersection between Queer Studies and Transnational Studies at 3pm in Room 201D, St. Patrick鈥檚 Building. This workshop is sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art... More

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Johanna Mizgala, Cultural Mediations PhD student in her other persona

Johanna Mizgala, whom we all know as a PhD student in Cultural Mediations has another life! When she is away from聽the Institute she is the Curator of the House of Commons. 聽Here is a lovely short produced by Public Works & Government Services Canada聽to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War. 聽You... More

Monday, November 17, 2014

Master Korean percussionist Dong-Won Kim and children from Glebe Montessori School in honour of International Children’s Day (UN)

The Landon Pearson Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children鈥檚 Rights at 杏吧原创 Celebrates National Child Day The Landon Pearson Centre at 杏吧原创 University will mark National Child Day on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 with music, dance and a panel of speakers who will gather to celebrate the release of two publications 鈥�... More

Thursday, November 13, 2014

A Culture Hub Event: Jeff Packman, University of Toronto presents “Playback and Posthuman Grooves: Professional Musicians, Mediated Listening, and the Feel of Music in Salvador, Brazil.”

Jeff Packman (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is an ethnomusicologist who has conducted extensive fieldwork in Bahia, Brazil focusing on professional music making in relation to cultural politics, especially discourses of race and class.聽 More recently, his research has examined various manifestations of聽samba de roda, an... More

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Working with Cinematic “Paratexts”

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) and the聽School for Studies in Art and Culture: Music present a "CULTURE HUB" event: Working with Cinematic 鈥淧aratexts": A panel discussion with: James Deaville, Ed Vollans, Agnes Malkinson, Dan Hesford and David Richler. Dr. James Deaville, School for Studies in Art... More

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Roots, Routes & Routers: Social Media and Urban Activism from the Arab Spring to Hong Kong

A Public Talk by Merlyna Lim Drawing on empirical evidence from various contexts globally, such as the Occupy Central protests in Hong Kong, the 鈥淎rab Spring鈥�, and the 鈥淏ersih鈥� movement in Malaysia, this talk will provide insights to the making of contemporary movements and the importance of networks and spaces in the discourses and... More

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Talk by Wallace K. Ferguson Award Winner – Mark Phillips

The Canadian Historical Association is presenting Historical Research on Canada and Beyond including a talk by our very own Mark Phillips, this year's winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Award. 聽This event is open to the public and will be held at the Festival Boardroom, Ottawa City Hall at 110 Laurier Avenue West on... More

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Two Views on the Postcolonial: A CultureHub Event in collaboration with French and the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis

CultureHub is very excited to be collaborating with the Department of French and the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis聽to present Two Views on the Postcolonial, a series of workshops and a keynote lecture by renowned postcolonial scholars Fran莽oise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih from University of California at Los Angeles. Keynote lectures... More

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Colloque international Art Brut et Mat茅rialit茅: des imaginaires 脿 l’艙uvre.

ICSLAC faculty member Dr. Jill Carrick and cotutelle student Pauline Goutain are collaborating with Paris Ouest Nanterre University to present the international conference聽Art Brut et Mat茅rialit茅: des imaginaires 脿 l'艙uvre, another event supported by CultureHub. This conference will take place on the 27th and 28th of October at the... More

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

鈥淏lacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in the Caribbean Literary Imagination鈥�

Professor Sarah Phillips Casteel of the聽Department of English, Institute of African Studies and聽Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture will present "Blacks and Jews: The Other 1492 and the Holocaust in 聽the Caribbean Literary Imagination" on聽Friday, October 17th, 3:00 p.m.,聽1811 Dunton Tower (English Department... More

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Terry Smith’s Visit as the Inaugural Sotheby’s Resident in Curatorial Studies

On September 24 & 25, we welcomed Dr. Terry Smith as the Inaugural Sotheby's Resident in Curatorial Studies for two workshops at 杏吧原创 and a Keynote Lecture hosted by the National Gallery. 聽The 杏吧原创 Newsroom highlighted his visit with a lovely article by Kristy Strauss. 聽You can read the full article... More

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Inaugural Sotheby鈥檚 Residency in Curatorial Studies with Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh: A CultureHub Event

Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh is coming to 杏吧原创 University on September 24th and 25th! 聽Please join us in welcoming him to聽the Inaugural Sotheby鈥檚 Residency in Curatorial Studies for the following events: A聽public lecture 鈥淭hinking Contemporary Art;... More

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Congratuations to Dr. Ming Tiampo

Ming Tiampo's recent exhibition wins prestigious Art Critics Association award for Gutai: Splendid Playground exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2013. Fore more information, see here. Congratulations Ming!... More

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Cynthia Hammond: Making Space: Activism, Landscape and Women’s History

Please join us in supporting Professor Cynthia Hammond from Concordia University as she presents Making Space: Activism, Landscape and Women's History on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 4 pm in the 杏吧原创 University Art Gallery. You can view the event poster... More