The WSU Humanities Center invites faculty, students, staff, and the community to our Marilyn Williamson Endowded Fellowship recipient's presentation given by Andrew Newman (Associate Professor, Gultural Anthropology) on the topic of "Empire's Garden: Anthropology and the Racialization of Vision in Fin-de-Siecle Paris".

Project Description: His project for the Marilyn Williamson Fellowship is "Empire's Garden: Anthropology and the Racialization of Vision in fin-de-siècle Paris." In this book project, Newman sheds light on a series of exhibitions held in Paris between 1877 and 1908 in which indigenous people from around the world were displayed for the public in "ethnographic shows". His study highlights the stories and experiences of the people who were featured in these exploitive exhibits while showing the ways that the displays influenced the emergence of anthropology as a discipline. Newman also examines the legacy of these exhibits for the present day by linking them with France's fraught politics of cultural diversity and anthropology's association with cultural exoticism.

This event will take place in the Student Center Hilberry D, please RSVP.