Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis

10/11/2025

Save the Date!

Please join us on Friday October 31st (11am to 12:30pm, St. Pat’s 201D) for “Geographical Thinking Across Disciplines”, a cross-disciplinary roundtable event featuring Ozayr Saloojee (Professor, Architecture and Urbanism) and Emily Putnam (PhD Candidate in Cultural Mediations), with Jennifer Ridley (Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies) as respondent.

Participants will address the question of how they pursue ‘geographical thinking’ as part of their research, teaching and/or writing practice at the university and beyond.

This event is co-organized by The Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) and the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations.

11/22/2024

Cultural Transfers is back!

Join us on Friday, November 29th, 2024, from 2pm - 3pm at Carleton University for the first of three Cultural Transfers workshops.

Friday's workshop is titled "Critical Intersections in African and African Diasporic Literatures" with talks by Chichi Ayalogu (Cultural Mediations PhD student), and Dr. Sarah Brouillette (Department of English). The workshop will be moderated by Dr. Christine Duff (Institute of African Studies/French).

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A collaboration between CTCA and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC), Cultural Transfers seeks to spotlight PhD student research in dialogue with faculty research on a diverse array of topics in the humanities. Stay tuned for announcements regarding our winter workshops!

Image credit: Ibrahim Miranda Ramos, Ballena, Almeria (2007), silkscreen on paper, ed. 10/23, Carleton University Art Gallery: gift of the artist, 2009.

10/21/2024

Join us for Limbo Time: Museums, Caribbean Temporalities, and the Wounds of History, an engaging lecture and Q&A with international scholar Dr. Wayne Modest (Director of Content, National Museum of World Culture in Rotterdam, Netherlands) on how museums can help address the wounds of colonial history.

Brought to you by the Gallery and the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis.

In English with simultaneous French interpretation
Free. Drop-in activity. No registration needed

For more information: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/limbo-time-museums-caribbean-temporality-and-the-wounds-of-history

Photo: Wereldmuseum Rotterdam

Carleton Art History & History and Theory of Architecture

10/19/2024

Congratulations are in order for CTCA founding co-director and Professor of English, Sarah Phillips Casteel who earlier this Fall was named to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for her groundbreaking, internationally recognized research on Black and Jewish diaspora literature and visual art.

RSC writes: "Bridging disciplinary divides, Casteel is leading a major reorientation of Jewish and Holocaust studies towards questions of race and colonialism."

You can read some of Sarah's recent scholarship in her book, "Black Lives Under Na**sm: Making History Visible in Literature and Art," (Columbia UP, 2024) or listen to her speak about her research on CBC's All in a Day with Alan Neal: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-92-all-in-a-day.

09/26/2024

Join us at for a special tour of the exhibition "A Dream of Return" with the curator, artists, and special guests.

🗓 Sunday, September 29, 2024, at 1pm
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This event is part of CUAG's Stonecroft Semester: The Art of Connection, and CTCA is thrilled to support the tour as part of our 2024-2025 programming.

Visit for more info.

Photo: Theo Jean Cuthand, "Homelands," 2010, still from a single-channel video, colour, sound, 53:00, courtesy of Vtape.

09/13/2024

Join our friends at (Carleton Art & Architecture History) for a talk next Wednesday, September 18th, 2024, with Associate Professor, Kathryn Eccles on "Hidden Histories and Critical Data Studies."

CTCA's 2024-2025 program is launching soon, so stay tuned!

07/09/2024

While we don't have any active events this summer, CTCA is in planning mode for the upcoming 2024-2025 season! Thank you to those of you who attended our initial events as we returned from our hiatus.

Here's a throwback to our April 11, 2024 book launch event for "Black Lives Under Na**sm: Making History Visible in Literature and Art" written by CTCA co-founder and co-director Sarah Phillips Casteel. It was a well-attended event (a nearly full lecture hall!). Thank you to all who attended to celebrate this important achievement.

Here, Phillips Casteel, moderator Ming Tiampo, and discussant Aboubakar Sanogo share a conversation about the book's contributions to diverse fields in the humanities.

We are grateful for our partnership with
organizing the event. On your next visit to the National Gallery, look for Dr. Phillips Casteel's book in the NGC Shop!

Stay tuned for news about future events.

04/12/2024

If you missed last night's book talk with CTCA co-Director, Sarah Phillips Casteel, you can hear her speak about her work on CBC's All in a Day with Alan Neal:

Ahead of a book launch tonight at the National Gallery of Canada, author Sarah Phillips Casteel tells us about her newest work, and how she hopes it can shed light on a neglected part of wartime history.

04/09/2024

This Thursday!

Thank you to our event partner National Gallery of Canada for their collaboration and support. Thank you as well to the support of Carleton's Department of English and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art in Culture.

Lancement la semaine prochaine 📗

Soyez des nôtres la semaine prochaine lors de nos avec l'autrice Sarah Phillips Casteel, pour la présentation de son livre Black Lives Under Na**sm.

Elle conversera avec Aboubakar Sanogo, professeur agrégé d’études cinématographiques à l’Université Carleton. Ming Tiampo, professeure d’histoire de l’art et co-directrice du Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis de l’Université Carleton, animera la discussion.

📆 Jeudi 11 avril
🕠 17 h 30 à 19 h HAE
📍 Salle de conférences

Le livre est en vente à la Boutique du Musée et sur AchatsMBAC.ca. L’autrice participera à une séance de signatures après l’événement. Pour tous les détails, visitez: https://www.beaux-arts.ca/a-laffiche/calendrier/lancement-du-livre-black-lives-under-nazism

Organisé par le Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis

04/04/2024

Book launch next week 📗

Join us next week during our with the author Sarah Phillips Casteel as she presents her book Black Lives Under Na**sm: Making History Visible in Literature and Art.

She will be in conversation with Aboubakar Sanogo, Associate Professor in Film Studies at Carleton University. Ming Tiampo, Professor of Art History and co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University, will moderate the discussion.

📆 Thursday, April 11
🕠 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT
📍 Lecture Hall

The book can be purchased at the Boutique and is available online at ShopNGC.ca. The author will be available to sign copies following the event. For all the details, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/book-launch-for-black-lives-under-nazism

Organized by the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis

04/03/2024

Please join us on Thursday, April 11, 2024 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm EST to celebrate the release of Sarah Phillips Casteel’s new book, Black Lives Under Na**sm: Making History Visible in Literature and Art. Phillips Casteel will be in conversation with Aboubakar Sanogo and the conversation will be moderated by Ming Tiampo.

Phillips Casteel is Professor of English at Carleton University where she is cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture. She is also co-Director of the CTCA.

The event will take place at the National Gallery of Canada Lecture Hall.

Free event, no registration required.

The book can be purchased in the NGC Boutique and is available online. The author will be available to sign copies following the event.

In English, with simultaneous French-language translation.

This event is organized by the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada. The CTCA gratefully acknowledges the support of the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, and the Department of English Literature and Language at Carleton University.

Full details at https://carleton.ca/ctca/cu-events/sarah-phillips-casteel-black-lives-under-nazism-making-history-visible-in-literature-and-art/