Race, Representation & Museums

Most recent public lectures are video-recorded. Click the title for the speaker name, a full description of the talk, and a transcript.

Video: Anxieties about Race in Egyptology and Egyptomania, 1890–1960

See also: Public Lectures, Archaeology, Race, Representation & Museums, Africa, Europe, North America

Despite ideals of scientific and scholarly objectivity, both Egyptologists... Read more about Video: Anxieties about Race in Egyptology and Egyptomania, 1890–1960

Video: Get Them before They’re Gone: From Collecting Cultural Objects to Collaborating with Communities

See also: Public Lectures, History, Museums, Race, Representation & Museums, North America

The United States was in the early stages of Reconstruction when Congress... Read more about Video: Get Them before They’re Gone: From Collecting Cultural Objects to Collaborating with Communities

Video: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: European Social Theory and the Real-Life “Fetish”

See also: Public Lectures, History, Museums, Race, Representation & Museums, Named Lecture Series, Africa, Europe

Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants... Read more about Video: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: European Social Theory and the Real-Life “Fetish”

Video: Smashing Agassiz’s Boulder

See also: Public Lectures, Evolution, Museums, Race, Representation & Museums, Named Lecture Series, North America

In the late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin proposed that all humans... Read more about Video: Smashing Agassiz’s Boulder

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