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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">The Institute for Ethics in Public Life presents "Who Owns the Past?", a panel discussion on museums and demands for repatriation of items from their collections, on Wednesday, May 3 at 5pm in Yokum 205. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span>In recent decades museums
across Europe and North America have increasingly been criticized over
parts of their collections. The British Museum, for example, contains
many items taken from colonized peoples during the Imperial era. Closer
to home, the Smithsonian Institution possesses the remains of thousands
of Native Americans as well as sacred artifacts, though it has started
to identify and return the remains. How should we think about demands
for repatriation of artifacts, art, objects, and remains from museums?
Museums are important for educating all of us about the world, but
should they use items that were, or may have been, stolen to do so? <br><br>The panel includes:<br> <br><span><b>Tonya Cribb</b> is the Director of the Plattsburgh State Art museum and is responsible for the daily operations of the museum, for long-term planning and the development and implementation of museum policies. She is trained as a museum generalist and has worked primarily in art museums and galleries for over twenty-five years. </span><br><div> <div><b>Emily Kasennisaks Cecilia Stacey</b> is a Mother and an activist for the local and Mohawk people. She is from the Mohawk tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy and of the turtle clan. She chaired 2 panels for the city of Plattsburgh, NY, and possesses two degrees - an A.A.S. from Clinton Community College and B.A. from SUNY Plattsburgh, both in Criminal Justice. She is a Mohawk educator and performer. <div><span> </span><br><b>Dr. Karen Blough</b> taught art history at SUNY Plattsburgh from 1999 to 2022. Her specialization is in the western Middle Ages and her <i>Companion to the Abbey of Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages</i> appeared with Brill in 2022. Dr. Blough's current research focuses on the illustrations in a 15th-century haggadah that assert the superiority of Judaism in the face of Jewish persecution in medieval Germany and northern Italy. <br><br><b>Dr. Justin Lowry</b> works on the archaeology of trade, exchange, and the development of societies in Mesoamerica and works on immigration issues in modern U.S. communities. His active archaeological work is currently in Clinton County, N.Y., Managua, Nicaragua and Chiapas, Mexico.</div></div></div></span>
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