“Dress, Display, and Dispossession Indianness and Visual Culture in 19th Century Ontario”

Dr Ruth Phillips is the Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture at Carleton University and former Director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver.  Her new research centres on two new book projects, whose working titles are “Museum Pieces: Exhibiting Native Art in Canadian Museums”, and “Transmission and Translation: Visuality and Art in the Great Lakes”.

Wednesday January 25th, 5:00 pm
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Lecture Theatre
Reception to follow talk