On Friday, February 27th at 1:00 pm<\/strong>, Professor Nahwegahbow will be speaking at Paterson Hall (PA303) on her methodology and practice of care and relationality with Indigenous art, histories, and material culture.<\/p>\n We are thrilled to have these three scholars share their phenomenal work at this year’s Colloquium. We hope you can join us!<\/strong><\/p>\n Read more about our speakers below…<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rebecca\u00a0Dolgoy:<\/b> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alexa Lepera:<\/strong> is the\u00a0assistant curator for domestic environments and social diversity at Ingenium. Alexa is a Carleton public history alumina, where she researched representations of Black Canadian histories in museums and heritage institutions, colonial archives of slavery, and community-based research. She also holds an MA in gender,\u00a0feminist\u00a0and women\u2019s studies from York University.\u00a0Alexa is passionate about broadening understandings of the history of science and technology in Canada. Her current work focuses on equitable approaches to community involvement in the domestic technology collection. She is also currently the facilitator of Ingenium\u2019s Black and African Canadian technological innovations fellowship.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow:<\/strong>is a lecturer cross-appointed with Carleton\u2019s Curatorial Studies program at the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) and in the History Department. She is Anishinaabe and Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka, and a member of Whitefish River First Nation with maternal roots in Kahnaw\u00e0:ke Mohawk Territory. Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Nahwegahbow recently held the position of Associate Curator of Historical Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada from 2018-2024. She has experience working with historical belongings in museums and galleries internationally, and has worked with contemporary Indigenous artists on a range of creative and curatorial projects. She has a great love of stories and for the handmade. She specializes in visual and material culture from her traditional territories in the Great Lakes region and her doctoral research focuses on material histories of Indigenous childcare and the roles of children and young people in Indigenous communities. Her methodology and practice centre around care, visiting, relationality, and customary arts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the 32nd Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium: Dr. Rebecca Dolgoy, Alexa Lepera and Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow! On Thursday, February 26th at 6:30 pm (doors open at 6:00 pm), Rebecca and Alexa will be speaking at Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) on their work with community-oriented exhibitions at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/underhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/ingc-bio-r-dolgoy-240x240.jpg\")
is the curator of natural resources and industrial technologies at Ingenium. Originally from Edmonton, in Treaty Six Territory and the homeland of the M\u00e9tis Nation of Alberta (region 4), Rebecca has been fortunate to live, study, and work in many different places, including Hong Kong, Berlin and Oxford, where she completed her doctorate in memory and museum studies. Her doctoral project traced lines of cultural memory embedded in Berlin museums while exploring relationships between material culture and public memory. Rebecca\u2019s current projects include documenting energy stories and transitions in Alberta, exploring slow memory and climate witnessing, investigating multiperspectival experiences of deindustrialization, and developing an exhibition on diasporic and transcultural memories of food, dining, and cooking. She also holds adjunct professorships in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University and the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/underhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/ingc-bio-a-lepera-1-240x240.jpg\")
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