Northern Ireland Museum to return more human remains to Hawaiโi
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Assistant Professor of Global History at University College Dublin. Researching global microhistories of violence, colonialism, and the collection, display, and return of human remains and looted artefacts
Northern Ireland Museum to return more human remains to Hawaiโi
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An exciting (and timely!) job for someone - Senior Researcher in Arctic Cultures and Cultural Heritage at the National Museum of Denmark. Deadline is 17th February: www.researchgate.net/job/1018407_...
Come work with us at UCD! We are hiring for permanent track assistant professorship on the entangled histories of health and environment, with a geographic speciality Africa or South America (broadly defined). Details below. Closes on 3 March. Please share widely
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN959/a...
Outgoing Interior Secretary Deb Haaland: โa measure of justice that has long evaded so many Native Americans for so many decadesโฆ Leonard can now go home to his family. I applaud President Biden for this action and understanding what this means to Indian Countryโ
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If a club is worried their logos and mascots are offensive when confronted by the people those symbols represent, then it is time for a long overdue dropping of those symbols. This is something Native America has long been telling US sports teams. Time to listen.
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On the day of Hฤซkoi mล te Tiriti, here's an encore presentation of Toyah Webb's wonderful article from last April on the guerrilla redaction of the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's national museum. overland.org.au/2024/04/rati...
Letโs not forget that Trumpโs rise to power isnโt because he captured white working class voters, nor a rightward drift of Latino and African American men along with Pro-Palestine protest votes. Itโs because Gen X allowed their Gen Z sport almanac to be taken by old boomers back to the 1950s.
This was me on twitter ๐, where Iโm not going back. Looking to rebuild community here.
Jamie Oliver pulls 'offensive' children's book from sale:
"There is no space in Australian publishing (or elsewhere) for our stories to be told through a colonial lens, by authors who have little if any connection to the people and place they are writing aboutโ
US President Biden formally apologises to Native America and Native Hawaiโi for Indian Residential Schools. Interesting contrast to the UKโs current refusal to apologise to commonwealth nations for slavery:
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National Museums Scotland have returned a stolen totem pole to the Nasgaโa nation. Brilliant example of how a national UK museum can do right when guided by relationships and partnerships rather than a โretain and explainโ ethos.
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Iโm an assistant professor in history working on 20th and 21st colonialism globally. Iโm particularly interested in how violence has been performed and itโs materiality in museums and collections.