Past Event

Prismatic Scatterings: Tracing Networks of Global Modernists in post-war Europe

Dr Elizabeth Harney, Associate Professor of Art History
University of Toronto
7:00 p.m., Thursday, February 28
Carleton University Art Gallery, St. Patrick’s Building

Elizabeth Harney’s research focuses on global modernisms, contemporary art practices in Africa and its diasporas, postcolonial theory, and the politics of exhibition. Her first book, In Senghor’s Shadow (Duke 2004) investigated the contours of Senegalese modernism and Negritude philosophy and received the prestigious Arnold Rubin Book Award. She edited Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora (National Museum of African Art and Philip Wilson Publishers, 2003). Her current book project, supported by a Social Science Research Grant, looks at notions of cosmopolitanism with the field of art history, particularly as they pertain to African artists.

Harney was the first curator of contemporary arts at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (1999-2003). She recently co-curated Inscribing Meaning: African Arts of Writing and Inscription, held at the Smithsonian and the UCLA Fowler Museum in Los Angeles (Five Continents Press, 2007). Harney is on the editorial boards of African Arts and NkA: Journal of Contemporary African Art.

Sponsored by the School for Studies in Art and Culture – Art History, The Institue of African Studies, and the Carleton University Art Gallery

See poster.