In this week’s blog post, we feature the work of our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project. Here, they offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains and their contemporary descendant communities with the dignity and respect that they deserve.
Tag Archives: museums
Blog Post #111: Telling New Stories: Do We Need to Display the Egyptian Dead? with Lisa Saladino Haney
In this week’s blog post, Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney takes us through her work on the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new “Egypt on the Nile” project, in which they are re-imagining the ways that we conceive of museum exhibitions related to ancient Egypt and the ethical treatment of the mummified human remains in the care of their museum.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: Naturalizing Inequalities: The Colonial Museum with Dan Hicks
In today’s episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. Dan Hicks, professor of contemporary archaeology at the University of Oxford and the curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Listen in, as he discusses the role of modern museums in colonial mythologies, and what a path forward might look like.
Season 4, Podcast 4: Curating with Care: Transparency in Museums with Lisa Saladino Haney
In this week’s episode we are joined by Dr. Lisa Haney, Assistant Curator of Egypt on the Nile at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and part-time instructor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Listen in, as Dr. Saladino Haney speaks about museum pedagogy, community engagement in exhibit development, and the display of Egyptian cultural heritage.
Blog Post #107: Tomb Robbers, Warehouses, and Vases: Giving Looted Antiquities a New Life with Marie Hélène van de Ven
In this week’s blog post, Marie Hélène van de Ven, a PhD student at Aarhus University, explores the ethics of studying looted artefacts without reinforcing the very networks through which they were illegally acquired. Here, she shares a component of this research based on her work with the Illicit Antiquities in the Museum project at Antikmuseet, Aarhus University.
Blog Post #102: The Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance with Mireille Lee
In this week’s blog post we interview Dr. Mireille Lee on her work with the Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage (FESCH) and the Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance (MAPRA). Here, she takes us through the issues with undocumented antiquities and the ethical issues that arise when looted objects end up in university and museum collections.
Peopling the Past Podcast Season 4: Cultural Heritage and Legacies of Colonialism
The Peopling the Past Podcast is back for a fourth season and this time we’re focusing on cultural heritage and the legacies of colonialism. Join your hosts Dr. Chelsea Gardner and Dr. Melissa Funke, as well as Dr. Christine Johnston (the producer of Season 4), for a very special preview episode, taking us through what we can expect from our podcast this season.
Blog Post #78: Interview with Kyle Lewis Jordan of Curating for Change
In February and March we are featuring public scholars who work across a number of media to represent the ancient world in creative and responsible ways. This week we speak with Kyle Jordan Lewis, early career scholar and curatorial fellow at the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museum, on his work to broaden the scope of the study, understanding, and representation of disability in antiquity.
Blog Post #43: Graduate Student Feature with Annissa Malvoisin
In this week’s Peopling the Past blog post, we present you with another graduate feature. This week we are highlighting the work of Annissa Malvoisin, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, whose research investigates the ceramic production and trade industry during Meroitic Nubia and its potential far-reaching networks linking Nile Valley civilizations Egypt and Nubia to Iron Age West African cultures in Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Ghana, and Libya.
Blog Post #33: The Lux Project with Melissa Funke
In this blog post, we highlight the Lux Project, an undergraduate research and digitization project focused on the Hetherington Collection, a collection of around 450 ancient Mediterranean artifacts housed in the Anthropology lab at the University of Winnipeg. A team of about a dozen student volunteers led by Melissa Funke is photographing, researching, and teaching the public about these objects.
Peopling the Past 