Lisa Truong

Lisa Truong

“Networking the Past and Present: An Ethnohistory of the Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute”

My research explores the role of networks in forging and maintaining cultural expression and identity against the history of indigenous museum creation in Canada from the 1960s onwards. Working with the Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee, I investigate the development of the Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute and its role as the central institution dedicated to preserving and shaping Cree cultures of nine communities across the James Bay region.

In addition to my doctoral research, I am a Research Assistant for the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures and currently the Curator of Inuit Art at the Carleton University Art Gallery.

 Recent Exhibitions and Publications

“Skin Deep.” Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON. Forthcoming (May – September 2014).

“Sanaugaq: Things Made by Hand,” University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON. 31 March – 16 April 2011.

“Cedar, Seagrass and Soapstone: Redefining the Teacup in Colonial Canada.” with Madeline Knickerboker. In The Inbetweenness of Things, edited by Paul Basu (edited volume resulting from The Inbetweenness of Things Symposium, The British Museum, 22-23 March 2013: Publisher TBC). Forthcoming.

Recent Conferences

2013. British-Indigenous or Just Indigenous: Redefining Tea Material Culture in Colonial Canada. Presentation at the Native American Art Studies Association 18^th Biennial Conference. Denver, Colorado. 18, October.

2013. with Madeline Knickerbocker. Cedar, Seagrass and Soapstone: Redefining the Teacup in Colonial Canada. Presentation at The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement Between Worlds, London, England. 23 March.

2012. Wanting so much to get it right, we got it wrong: Learning collaborative museology, Presentation at the International Committee for the Training of Personnel – International Council of Museums, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13, September.