Miriam Hambergure will discuss indigenous calls to repatriate human remains and rehumanize objects in museum contexts.
Drawing from her experience as a repatriation coordinator and museum conservator, Hamburger will discuss repatriation, the rhetoric of kinship, and Indigenous traditions towards an Aboriginal critique of violence that asks Western institutions to consider relations to Indigenous people.
Miriam Hamburger is a PhD Student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work in the GRASSI Museum for Ethnology in Leipzig informs her thinking concerning materiality and phenomenology across secular and Indigenous traditions. She received both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Religious Studies from Leipzig University and Occidental College, respectively.
