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Museum Dialogs Thursday May 27 9:00 PT/11:00 CT/12:00 ET/18:00 CET/19 :00 EAT Register at bit.ly/gc21dialogues This conversation will focus on the transcontinental dialogues within museums and between museums and communities to ensure the return of tangible and intangible heritage to the places and communities where they belong. Adriana Munoz Anabela Carlón Flores, Licenciada en derecho por la Universidad de Sonora, Facilitadora de video Participativo, Adriana Muñoz, PhD, is curator coordinadora del programa de protección cultural y natural for the Americas at the National para Jamut Boo’o y defensora de los derechos humanos. Museums of World Culture. Her Descendiente de dos culturas originarias Yaqui-Mayo, archaeology doctoral thesis originaria de Loma de Bacum del territorio de la nación was entitled From Curiosa to yaqui. World Culture. A History of the Latin American Collections at the Museum of World Culture in Dr. Purity Wakabari Kiura Sweden, and for the last several Dr. Purity Kiura is the Director of years, her work has been focused Antiquities, Sites and Monuments on restitution, post-colonial trauma, and the labeling of and a Senior Research Scientist at collections. She participates in several networks in Europe the National Museums of Kenya. and the Americas and is part of several research projects She is a trained geologist and including archaeology of the contemporary past in northern archaeologist having undertaken Chile, the restitution of Sami cultural heritage, and undergraduate studies in Geology restitution of a photo archive to Bolivia. Currently, she is at the University of Nairobi in 1997 finishing a project on the labels and contexts in restitution and a Masters and Doctorate with the Yaqui people in Sonora, Mexico and starting a degree in Anthropology at Rutgers project on restitution of knowledge after the fire in Rio de University, New Jersey in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Janeiro. In her current role at the National Museum of Kenya, she is in-charge of all museums, antiquities, sites and Anabela Carlón Flores monuments. This involves heritage management and conservation through surveying, mapping and registry into Anabela Carlón Flores is a lawyer the national list of protected areas, objects, and buildings. and a human rights defender. A Other duties include information dissemination through graduate of the faculty of law at development of exhibitions and public programs within the University of Sonora, Mexico, museums. Anabela coordinates the project of cultural and natural protection Some of her specific areas of interest currently include: for Jamut Boo’o, a women’s • Monitoring and mitigation of heritage resources organization that defends the especially in areas where there are economic natural resources, territory, and development companies the culture of the Yaqui people. She is also a facilitator in the creation of participatory film. • Developing investment products using heritage for the Anabela is a descendant of two Indigenous (Yaqui-Mayo) country’s economic development cultures. She grew up in Loma de Bacum in the territory of • Community participation in the conservation of the Yaqui nation. heritage • Training and education of the youth as heritage managers Brooke M. Morgan, PhD, is an • Repatriation discourse in Kenya especially trying to identify archaeologist, curator of anthropology, artifacts, their location, their provenance, and other relevant and Native American Graves Protection information as well as procedure to bring them back and Repatriation (NAGPRA) point of contact at the Illinois State Museum. • Engagement with counties/regions governments in heritage Her archaeological research focuses management and capacity building on Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers • Heritage policy formulation and implementation and the interplay of people, the natural environment, and the built environment. • Following up on international heritage obligations to which She has been involved in archaeological Kenya has committed research for more than sixteen years, primarily in Illinois, Colorado, and Stephen E. Nash North Dakota. In 2019, she oversaw the return of 42 culturally Steve Nash is Director of Anthropology significant objects in the Illinois State Museum’s ethnographic and Senior Curator of Archaeology collection to Indigenous Aranda and Bardi Jawi communities in at the Denver Museum of Nature & Australia--the first such return in the world under the Australian Science, where he has worked for Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies nearly 15 years. He conducts fieldwork (AIATSIS) Return of Cultural Heritage project. As a foundational and collections-based research on step towards reconciliation and relationship-building, Brooke is the ancient Mogollon archaeology of currently leading Illinois State Museum NAGPRA consultations southwestern New Mexico. He has with Midwestern Tribes in order to repatriate Indigenous written and edited seven books on Ancestors. topics ranging from archaeological tree- ring dating to Russian gem carvings by Vasily Konovalenko and from the history of museums to scholarly biography. His most recent book is Pushing Boundaries: Proceedings of the 18th Southwest Symposium, an edited volume consisting of 20 chapters on southwestern American archaeology to be published in 2021. From 1999 to 2006 he served as Head of Collections in the Department of Anthropology at the Field Museum, Chicago. During high school and college, he served as a tour guide at the Museum of Science & Industry. In short, museums have been part of his life for over 40 years. Nash is author of more than 50 curiosities columns at SAPIENS.org, an on-line anthropology magazine. He teaches public speaking through PitchLab! and performs science-based stand-up comedy with ScienceRiot. He focuses his spare time on his three baseball-playing, teenage boys. Brooke Morgan (moderator).

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