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Senses of Autonomy in the Los Angeles Basin Colonial Hinterlands

Submitted by dwhitmore on May 6, 2021 - 4:13pm

Nathan Acebo, MA, PhD
University of California, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Scholar and Critical Mission Studies Postdoctoral Scholar
Anthropology & Heritage Studies
University of California, Merced

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Spirituality and Diaspora: Considering Yoruba and Kongo Objects in Museums

Submitted by kluu on April 21, 2021 - 2:48pm

A conversation between Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz and José Bedia,
Moderated by Manuel Jordán

May 18th, 10am - 11am PST

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Ritualized Stone and Public Art on Easter Island Highlights and Insights of Recent Excavations in Statue Quarry

Submitted by dwhitmore on March 15, 2021 - 2:22pm

Jo Anne Van Tilburg
Director, Easter Island Statue Project
Rock Art Archive, UCLA Cotsen Institute

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Indigenous Perspectives in Chronology Building: Rejecting the Three-Age System in Philippine Archaeology

Submitted by dwhitmore on January 14, 2021 - 9:43am

Presented by

Dr. Stephen Acabado
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA

Ruling an Empire through Compassion: Angkorian Infrastructure of Public Health and Accommodation

Submitted by dwhitmore on January 8, 2021 - 9:49am

Dr. Piphal Heng, ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow, Northern Illinois University
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 10:00 AM (Pacific Time) Zoom Webinar

Black and Indigenous Storytelling as Counter-History

Submitted by dwhitmore on November 2, 2020 - 8:54am

For untold centuries, storytelling has been foundational to the ways Black and Indigenous people understand and connect to the world around them. However, knowledge systems upheld in academic settings continually disavow these narratives and those who hold them as valid sites of intellectual production. For BIPOC heritage professionals, storytelling taps into historically marginalized ways of knowing.