Website: http://objectlives.com/  

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Description: Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America is a collaborative research project with Edmonton and Montreal as the geographic hubs for its enquiry. This project will explore the histories of material culture within these regions, linked to wider global flows of influence that arise from trade, colonialism and migration. The object histories will be developed through our project’s multi-disciplinary partnership, generating essential new knowledge about people and object interactions. The stories of the selected objects will be presented on the ‘Object Lives’ website, detailing the biographies of goods that acted as surrogates of early globalization and cross-cultural exchange.

Contributors:

• Beverly Lemire, History and Classics Department, University of Alberta
• Anne Whitelaw, Art History, Concordia University
• Laura Peers, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
• Susan Berry, Head of Cultural Studies, Royal Alberta Museum
• LK Bertram, Department of History, University of Toronto
• Sarah Carter, History & Classics, University of Alberta
• Cynthia Cooper, Head of Collections and Research Curator, McCord Stewart Museum
• Judy Half, Anthropology, University of Calgary
• Annette de Stecher, Department of Art & Art History, University of Colorado Boulder
• Sara Komarnisky, History & Classics, University of Alberta
• Jonathan Lainey, Curator, Indigenous Cultures, McCord Stewart Museum
• Katie Pollock, Curator, Canadian Museum of History
• Sarah Nesbitt, Touring Exhibitions Coordinator, MacKenzie Art Gallery
• Julie-Ann Mercer, Design & Visual Culture, University of Alberta

Funders: SSHRC