The Art Department invites all to the Spring 2018 Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Art Lecture. This year's speaker is Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson, Professor of Art History at McGill University and the 2017-18 William Lyon Mackenzie Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University. Nelson's talk is titled "Enslaved Females in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia and Quebec: Examining the Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive."

 

Nelson has a PhD in Art History from the University of Manchester in the UK. Her research ranges across on postcolonial and black feminist scholarship, Transatlantic Slavery Studies, and Black Diaspora Studies, along with Canadian, American, European, and Caribbean art and visual culture. Her current projects focus on an exploration of Canadian and Jamaican fugitive slave advertisement as a visual culture that can disclose much about the differing larger cultures in which they are displayed.  She has published extensively, held numerous fellowships and appointments, and received many awards.

 

The Bakwin Art Lecture will be held on April 11, 2018 at 4:00 pm in Collins Cinema. The lecture is free to attend and open to all.