Magdalena Miłosz is a doctoral student at McGill University under the supervision of Professor Annmarie Adams. Her research focuses on the historical uses of architecture in the Canadian government’s attempts to assimilate Indigenous peoples in the context of the nation-building project, with a particular emphasis on gender and politics. Her work is supported by a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a Schulich Graduate Fellowship from McGill.
Sessions auxquelles Magdalena Milosz participe
Jeudi 25 Mai, 2017
As a marker within territory, architecture stakes a claim over that territory on behalf of those who design and build. In Canada, this dynamic inscribed colonial powers onto the land in the wake of Indigenous dispossession, and this architecture is often celebrated as reflective of settler nationhood. Yet other architectures also emerge out of this colonial past: those specifically constructed to further Canada’s attempts to assimilate First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities into the do...
