October 29, 2020
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. EST
Introduction to the Panel Series: Setting some parameters for the discussion: two disparate cases
· Diane O’Donoghue, Director of the Program for Public Humanities and Senior Fellow for the Humanities at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life: “The Währinger Jewish Cemetery, Vienna”
· Bridget Conley, Research Director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF) and Associate Research Professor at The Fletcher School: “Ethiopia’s Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum”
De-colonized ‘objects’
· Ciraj Rassool, Professor of History at the University of the Western Cape and director of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies: “Rehumanising the Dead of Anthropology: Museums and Society after Colonialism”
· Pernelda Grant, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona: “On Cultural Heritage and Museum Objects”
November 18, 2020
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST
Recovery and Reclamation
· Adam Rosenblatt, Associate Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies at Duke University, and Board Member of the Friends of Geer Cemetery: “Ways of Knowing a Neglected Cemetery, Ways of Knowing the Dead”
· Sarah Wagner, Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University: “What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War”
February 11, 2021
16:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. CET(!)
The ‘life’ of museum objects
· Ingrid Neuman, Museum Conservator at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD): “On Conservation of Human Remains as Museum Objects.”
· Steven Lubar, Professor of American Studies, History, History of Art and Architecture at Brown University: “Multiple Matters that Determine the Life of Museum Objects.”
· Zuzanna Dziuban, Senior Postdoc at the Institute for Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in the ERC Consolidator Project: “Globalized Memorial Museums: Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals:” “Governing Ashes: The Ethics, Politics and Material Survivance of Incinerated Human Remains”
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