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Sept 16, 11-11:55 am MDT - Recovering Voices: Connecting Communities to Collections

Established in 2009, Recovering Voices (RV) is a interdisciplinary program at the Smithsonian whose mission is to collaborate with communities to sustain and celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity. Working with Indigenous communities and institutional partners across the globe, RV carries out and supports community based research in the anthropology of knowledge and language revitalization. RV has pioneered collection-based methods to help sustain cultural practices. This work draws on the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives, the Human Studies Film Archives, and the Smithsonian’s extensive cultural heritage and natural history collections. Through dynamic public programs, such as the Mother Tongue Film Festival, RV also amplifies the work of diverse practitioners who explore the power of language to connect the past, present, and future. In this seminar, I will talk about the inception of Recovering Voices, the challenges of the program what RV has accomplished to date, and why working with Indigenous communities is critical for museums.

Instructor
Joshua Bell (D.Phil 2006) is cultural anthropologist and the Curator of Globalization at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Combining ethnographic fieldwork with research in museums and archives, Bell examines the shifting local and global network of relationships between persons, artefacts and the environment. He is currently the Acting Director of the National Anthropological Archives, and curates the 8 million feet of film that compose the Human Studies Film Archives. In addition to being the Director of the Recovering Voices program, which connects communities to Smithsonian collections in the effort to support language and knowledge revitalization, he is the founder and co-director of the Mother Tongue Film Festival at the Smithsonian. Currently Bell is curating the show Cellphone: Unseen Connections (opening at NMNH in spring 2022) which explores the cultural, ecological and natural history stories bound up in our mobile devices. Bell has edited several books and written articles on materiality, expeditions, the politics of heritage and history, visual return, history of collecting, media and cell phone repair.

Cost: Free.

This is part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series and is open to the public.
Contact Manisha Khetarpal by email via mkhetarpal@mccedu.ca or call toll free: 1 866 585 3925

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