[SOA] Free lecture on history of collecting & exhibiting Native American cultural items

[Emily Gainer]

Sharing an online lecture:
The Institute for Human Science and Culture at The University of Akron is launching a new online lecture series focused on historical collecting practices that brought ancestral belongings into museums and private collections. The series begins on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 6 p.m., with historian and curator Dr. Meranda Roberts. Roberts will the discuss the colonial history of collecting and exhibiting Native American cultural items in academic spaces. Attendees will learn what it takes for Native communities to reunite and reclaim their cultural items from these institutions.[Headshot of Dr. Meranda Roberts, a woman with a medium skin tone, long dark hair, glasses. Also included is the title of her talk, "Entangled Histories: The Oak Native American Ethnographic Collection and Indigenous Reclamation."]
This online conversation is free to attend and open to all. Advanced registration is required.<https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cummingscenterforthehistoryofpsychology/1329222>
The series will continue through the fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters, with speakers including University of Montana Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Repatriation Coordinator Courtney Little Axe, decolonial heritage specialist Dr. Paul Edward Montgomery Ramirez, and anthropologist and historian Dr. Joe Stahlman.
Learn more on the Institute website.<https://www.uakron.edu/ihsc/speaker-series>



Emily Gainer (she/her)

Assistant Processing Archivist/Special Collections Librarians

Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology

73 S. College St.

Akron, OH 44325-4302

330-972-8147

www.uakron.edu/chp


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