Professor Michael Hatt has chaired a session with Martina Droth (Yale Center for British Art) at the CAA conference in Los Angeles.

The Image of the American Indian in Nineteenth-Century Britain: New Critical Perspectives.

"The study of the representation of American Indians has gained increasing attention in recent scholarship. This history, however, has been almost exclusively written from a North American perspective. In nineteenth-century Britain a widespread fascination with Native American cultures was connected to wider debates about empire and the transatlantic world. But what Kate Flint termed the ‘Transatlantic Indian’ in her pioneering study has remained largely unexamined. This interdisciplinary session seeks to explore the various ways in which native peoples from the United States and Canada, and the artifacts of their cultures, were being represented, portrayed, studied, and collected in Britain in the long nineteenth century."

This was an affiliation session organised by the Historians of British Art (HBA) society.

The College Art Association (CAA) in North America is the principal professional association in the United States for practitioners and scholars of art, art history, and art criticism.

Historians of British Art (HBA) promotes scholarship and other professional endeavors related to British art and architecture, broadly conceived in terms of place and time.