Gabrielle Moser, a visiting Fulbright Scholar from Canada, will discuss the role of photography in shaping the figure of the citizen from the late-19th century to the present at Coastal Carolina University on Friday, April 21, at the Lib Jackson Student Union at 11 a.m. The public is invited to attend the lecture at no charge.

"When Wooden Crates Become Ballot Boxes: Photography and the Making and Un-Making of Citizens in Canada's Arctic" is the title of the talk.

On Monday, April 24, Moser will give a second lecture at the Myrtle Beach Education Center at 79th Ave North and U.S. 17 Bypass at 10 a.m. "Quiet and Quotidian Images: Family Photography, Race and Violence in African-Canadian Owned Newspapers" is the topic, which is also free and open to the public.

Moser, an adjunct professor in art history on the faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies at OCAD University, formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design, is also a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

Her current project, "Picturing race and citizenship: photography and belonging in the US and Canada, 1900-1948," examines the extra-legal life of citizenship in the photographic record, focusing on five case studies where racialized subjects used transnational understandings of citizenship to negotiate their status in highly visible ways. An independent curator, Moser has organized exhibitions for Access Gallery, Gallery TPW, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries and Vtape. She has written for numerous exhibition catalogues. She earned a Ph.D. in art history and the visual culture program at York University in Toronto, Canada, and she is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia.

Moser's writing appears in venues including Artforum.com, Art in America, Canadian Art, Fillip, Journal of Visual Culture, Photography & Culture, Prefix Photo and in the forthcoming edited volume, "Photography and the Optical Unconscious" (Duke University Press). As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions for Access Gallery, Gallery TPW, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries, and Vtape, and has written for numerous exhibition catalogues.

Moser's discussions are sponsored by CCU's Arts and Humanities Global Experience Program and the Office of Global Initiatives in collaboration with the Fulbright's Outreach Lecture Fund Program.

For more information, contact Tripthi Pillai, CCU's global experiences coordinator, at tpillai@coastal.edu or 843-234-3410. For more information about the Celebration of Inquiry and a full schedule of events, visit coastal.edu/inquiry. -