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SUMMARY:“The Unvarnished Truth”: Reframing the National Narrative at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by William S. Pretzer\, Senior Curator of History\, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture \n  \nThe Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture opened on the National Mall in Washington\, DC\, in September 2016.  More than six million individuals have visited the museum in its first three years of operation. \nThe Presidential Commission created in 2001 directed the museum to “give voice to the centrality of the African American experience and make it possible for all people to understand the depth\, complexity\, and promise of the American experience.” \nFrom the beginning\, Founding Director Lonnie G. Bunch III and his staff heeded the exhortation of historian John Hope Franklin\, chair of the museum’s Scholarly Advisory Committee\, “to tell the unvarnished truth.” That principle energized an exhibition plan informed by public conversations\, a collecting program relying on individual and family legacies\, a narrative format balancing the personal with the social\, and a funding strategy emphasizing the “African American experience as the lens through which we understand what it is to be American.” \nThis presentation demonstrates the impact of these foundational principles and strategies through an illustrated tour of the inaugural exhibitions. \n  \nWilliam Pretzer is the Senior Curator for History at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture where he is developing the museum’s Center for African American Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He co-curated “A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond\,” one of the museum’s twelve inaugural exhibitions.  Pretzer began his museum career as a historian at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History from 1980-1984.  Following tenure as a Project Director at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware\, he then spent 21 years as a curator and educator at The Henry Ford in Michigan where he developed exhibitions\, chaired the museum’s Collection and Publication committees\, and served as Director of Educational Programs.  From 2006 to 2009 he served as Director of the Museum of Cultural & Natural History as well as Director of the Museum Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at Central Michigan University. \n  \n \nPretzerFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-unvarnished-truth-reframing-the-national-narrative-at-the-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Repatriation and Restitution of Cultural Heritage
DESCRIPTION:  \nRepatriation and Restitution of Cultural Heritage: Museums\, Universities\, and the Ethics of Community Engagement \nDepartment of Classical Studies\nDEI Committee \nRoundtable:\nRepatriation and Restitution of Cultural Heritage: Museums\, Universities\, and the Ethics of Community Engagement \nOctober 25\, 2:30-3:30PM\nClassics Library \nThis roundtable was prompted by similar events in US universities (e.g. Brown University)\, after the publication of the Savoy report in November 2018 (The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Towards a New Relational Ethics.) The report defines restitution and outlines its implications beyond questions of legitimate ownership which often dominate discussions on the topic. \nFrom the report: “Restitutions open up a profound reflection on history\, memories\, and the colonial past\, concerning the history as well as the formation and development of Western museum collections. But just as importantly the question of restitution also bears on the question of the different interpretations or conceptions of cultural heritage\, of the museum\, and their various modalities of the presentation of objects as well as their circulation and\, in the end\, the nature and quality of relations between people and nation.” \nAccording to the report\, stolen and looted objects constitute a “diaspora” and additional violence is inscribed onto the objects themselves as they are altered\, reshaped\, varnished\, cleaned\, etc. How are such objects to be “restituted” and “repatriated”\, the report asks? And why seek to repatriate at all? Does repatriation foster community engagement? What are the power dynamics among the multiple stakeholders in such engagements? \nThe report raises questions that resonate beyond African Art and with this event we hope to raise similar questions as they pertain to our institutional and disciplinary practices. \nThe roundtable brings together specialists from different fields: \nBrendan Haug\, Assistant Professor\, Classical Studies and Archivist of the UM Papyrology Collection\nShelley Perlove\, Professor Emerita\, History of Art\nRay Silverman\, Professor History of Art\, DAAS\, Museum Studies\nLisa C. Young\, Lecturer IV\, Anthropology\, Research Affiliate Museum of Anthropology
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/repatriation-and-restitution-of-cultural-heritage/
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