"Who Owns the Past?" May 3 (W) at 5pm in Yokum 205

[Daniel Lake]

 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.

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?

The panel includes:

*Tonya Cribb* 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.

*Emily Kasennisaks Cecilia Stacey* 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.

*Dr. Karen Blough* taught art history at SUNY Plattsburgh from 1999 to
2022. Her specialization is in the western Middle Ages and her *Companion
to the Abbey of Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages* 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.

*Dr. Justin Lowry* 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.

Please join us for this important and interesting conversation.

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*Daniel Lake*

(pronouns: he/him/his)

Assoc. Prof.  and Chair of Political Science

Director, Institute for Ethics in Public Life

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