Video: ICSLAC PhD Student Wins SSHRC Storyteller Award

Johnny (El-) Alam is a doctoral candidate in visual culture at Carleton University’s Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC). Supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarship for his PhD research, (El-) Alam studies relations between art, memory, war, trauma and the nation. His submission—a short video documentary on Lebanese-Canadian artists exploring Lebanon’s civil wars through their work—examines the issue of art as a response to trauma and how it reflects on and informs Canadian identity.