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Join us on October 24 at 3 p.m. in Tory 2-58 for "Indigenous Rights, Philanthropy, and Humanitarian Governance across the Anglo World, 1837–1951", a talk by Dr. Darren Reid.

Dr. Reid will discuss how three nineteenth- and twentieth-century voluntary philanthropic organizations – the British Aborigines’ Protection Society (APS), the American Indian Rights Association (IRA), and the Australian Association for the Protection of Native Races (APNR) – functioned simultaneously as opponents of colonial violence as well as instruments of colonial governance. He will argue that these groups directly contributed to building the administrative structures of empire through providing public relations, surveillance, and data processing services to colonial governments. Dr. Reid will also offer preliminary thoughts on how the long history of these groups influenced the Friends of the Indians Society established by Reta Rowan, wife of the ¶®É«µÛ’s inaugural Head of Zoology, in 1944, which he hopes to study during his Banting fellowship.

Dr. Darren Reid is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the History program at the ¶®É«µÛ. He completed a PhD at University College London and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University. His research straddles disciplines including imperial history, public history, communication studies, and digital humanities, with Indigenous-settler relations being a major throughline.