Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 104

From Imperial to Canadian Citizenship: Photography, Race, and Belonging in the Former British Empire, 1900–1948

Free Public Talk by Dr. Gabrielle Moser, AHVA Postdoctoral Fellow   This talk traces the emergence of citizenship as a photographable subject in the British Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century, taking as its focus an archive of 6,700 images produced by the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee: an unusual education project, developed […]

Tameka Norris — Ivy League Ratchet

An Artist Talk by Tameka Norris Wednesday, January 17, 2018 5:30 pm Room 104, Frederic Lasserre Building 6333 Memorial Road, UBC Tameka Norris began her career in the Los Angeles hip-hop scene before migrating to the fine arts. She supplemented along the way with a broad array of odd jobs, from call-centre customer service representative […]

Jeanine Oleson — Conduct Matters

Conduct Matters An Artist Talk by Jeanine Oleson Wednesday, February 28, 2018 5:30 PM Room 104 Frederic Lasserre Building 6333 Memorial Road, UBC Event is free and open to the public The UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to present an artist talk by Jeanine Oleson. She will discuss her […]

Frédérique de Vignemont — Why Do I Feel This Body As My Own?

Wednesday, Oct 23, 2019 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Frederic Lasserre, Room 104 This lecture is free, registration is not required. Join Professor Frédérique de Vignemont as she pursues a conceptual and empirical investigation on the notion of self-awareness, in its relation both to social awareness and to bodily awareness. Her recent book, Mind the Body: An Exploration […]

19th Century Studies – Sharon Marcus “The Novel and Provincial Life”

Sharon Marcus is an Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Professor Marcus specializes in nineteenth-century British and French novels, urban and architectural studies, and feminist and queer theory. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Johns Hopkins University in 1995. In addition to Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London […]