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The Cultural Mediations Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary doctoral program housed in the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) at Carleton University. It admitted its first students in 2001-02. The program reflects a current tendency towards theoretically informed approaches to art and culture which cross traditional disciplinary divides.
The program is designed to advance knowledge and understanding of that body of cultural theory and those cultural practices that inform literary studies, cinema studies and work in music, art history and new media, along with the historical, intellectual and social frames of reference that this work invokes. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the configuration of disciplinary boundaries and the ways that our traditional objects of study are defined has changed dramatically. This program acknowledges the ongoing and accelerated cultural mediations inaugurated by the developing technologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and their impact upon changing conceptions of self and world.
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