Symposium: Contesting Knowledge
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Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
24 September 2007
The 2007 CIC AIS Symposium "Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives," the first of a three-year symposia examining "Indigenous Past and Present," will be held at the Newberry Library on Monday September 24th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Program
Session I. Ethnography and the Cultural Politics of Museums
Commentator: Ray Silverman, University of Michigan
Elite Ethnography and Historical Memory: Representing the Quintessential
Primitive in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Hal Langfur, Department of History, SUNY-Buffalo
Re-Inventing George Heye: Nationalizing the Museum of the American Indian
and its Collections
Ann McMullen, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Institution
Ethnographic Showcases as Sites of Knowledge Production and Resistance
Zine Magubane, Department of History, Boston College
Ethnographic Elaboration, Indigenous Contestations and the Cultural Politics
of Imagining Community: A View from the District Six Museum in South Africa
Ciraj Rassool, Department of History, University of the Western Cape
Session II. Curatorial Practices: Voice, Values, Languages, and Traditions
Commentator: Jacki Rand, University of Iowa
West Side Stories: The Blending of Voice And Representation through A Shared
Curatorial Practice
Teresa Carlson, Diefenbaker Canada Centre, University of Saskatchewan and
Brenda Macdougal, Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan
The Construction of Native Voice at the National Museum of the American
Indian
Jennifer Shannon, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
The National Museum of the American Indian: A Virtual Material Reaction to
the Problematized Past
Miranda Brady
Museums and Mexican Indigenous Territoriality
Paul Liffman, Centro de Estudios Anthropològicos El Colegio de Michoacàn
(Mexico)
Session III. Museums and the State
Commentator: Brenda Child, University of Minnesota
Recognizing Responsibilities Towards Knowledge: The Zuni Museum and the
Mediation Of Different Knowledge Systems
Gwyneira Isaac, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State
University
Reimagining Tribal Sovereignty through Tribal History: Museums, Archives,
and Libraries in the Klamath River Region
Brian Isaac Daniels
Tsi?niyukwalho?ta, the Oneida Nation Museum: Creating a space for
Haudenosaunne Kinship and Identity
Kristina Ackley, The Evergreen State College
Museums as Sites of Decolonization: Truth Telling in National and Tribal
Museums
Amy Lonetree, American Studies Department, University of California, Santa
Cruz
The program is in place, as is the registration and hotel information.
Please follow the below link to view the symposium website and please share
the link with others you think might be interested.
http://www.cic.net/AISconference
--
Laurie Arnold, PhD
Associate Director
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History The Newberry Library 60
W. Walton Chicago, IL 60610
312.255.3575 (p)
312.255.3696 (f)
Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
24 September 2007
The 2007 CIC AIS Symposium "Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives," the first of a three-year symposia examining "Indigenous Past and Present," will be held at the Newberry Library on Monday September 24th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Program
Session I. Ethnography and the Cultural Politics of Museums
Commentator: Ray Silverman, University of Michigan
Elite Ethnography and Historical Memory: Representing the Quintessential
Primitive in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Hal Langfur, Department of History, SUNY-Buffalo
Re-Inventing George Heye: Nationalizing the Museum of the American Indian
and its Collections
Ann McMullen, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Institution
Ethnographic Showcases as Sites of Knowledge Production and Resistance
Zine Magubane, Department of History, Boston College
Ethnographic Elaboration, Indigenous Contestations and the Cultural Politics
of Imagining Community: A View from the District Six Museum in South Africa
Ciraj Rassool, Department of History, University of the Western Cape
Session II. Curatorial Practices: Voice, Values, Languages, and Traditions
Commentator: Jacki Rand, University of Iowa
West Side Stories: The Blending of Voice And Representation through A Shared
Curatorial Practice
Teresa Carlson, Diefenbaker Canada Centre, University of Saskatchewan and
Brenda Macdougal, Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan
The Construction of Native Voice at the National Museum of the American
Indian
Jennifer Shannon, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
The National Museum of the American Indian: A Virtual Material Reaction to
the Problematized Past
Miranda Brady
Museums and Mexican Indigenous Territoriality
Paul Liffman, Centro de Estudios Anthropològicos El Colegio de Michoacàn
(Mexico)
Session III. Museums and the State
Commentator: Brenda Child, University of Minnesota
Recognizing Responsibilities Towards Knowledge: The Zuni Museum and the
Mediation Of Different Knowledge Systems
Gwyneira Isaac, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State
University
Reimagining Tribal Sovereignty through Tribal History: Museums, Archives,
and Libraries in the Klamath River Region
Brian Isaac Daniels
Tsi?niyukwalho?ta, the Oneida Nation Museum: Creating a space for
Haudenosaunne Kinship and Identity
Kristina Ackley, The Evergreen State College
Museums as Sites of Decolonization: Truth Telling in National and Tribal
Museums
Amy Lonetree, American Studies Department, University of California, Santa
Cruz
The program is in place, as is the registration and hotel information.
Please follow the below link to view the symposium website and please share
the link with others you think might be interested.
http://www.cic.net/AISconference
--
Laurie Arnold, PhD
Associate Director
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History The Newberry Library 60
W. Walton Chicago, IL 60610
312.255.3575 (p)
312.255.3696 (f)
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