Upcoming Events
Unsettling Museums and Re-Story-ing Indigeneities
January 22, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join the Institute for Human Science and Culture for their speaker series on reducing harms in museums for a talk with Dr. Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez!
Dr. Montgomery Ramírez is a Monimboseño person from what is currently Nicaragua, raised in diaspora in the United States. He is a decolonial heritage specialist and Indigenous public archaeologist, with a PhD in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage from the University of York. His research focuses on re-storying narratives of the past and using cultural heritage for decolonial options for sustainable and equitable futures for Indigenous and marginalized communities. In 2017, he received the Orgullo de Mi Pais Award from the Nicaraguan Embassy in London for his outreach work on Indigenous rights and heritages. Dr. Montgomery Ramírez is a public speaker and activist for education, environmental, cultural, and human rights.
The event is free but please register ahead of time here!
This speaker series was funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Spark Grant.
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University of Akron Institute for Human Science and Culture
330-972-7952
ihsc@uakron.edu