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DESCRIPTION:Vera A. Solovyeva will speak in the Work-in-Progress Seminar on
  Monday\, March 14 at noon. Her talk is entitled “The Museum's Role in Sus
 taining and Revitalizing the Cultures and Traditions of Indigenous Peoples
 .”Vera A. Solovyeva is Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Cultures of Conservation
  at Bard Graduate Center. She completed her undergraduate work at Yakut St
 ate University\, and is currently a PhD candidate at George Mason Universi
 ty. Her research focuses on how indigenous northern peoples preserve and d
 evelop their cultures and traditions in a contemporary world that is rapid
 ly changing due to factors such as globalization and climate change. Addit
 ionally\, Solovyeva is interested in the process of how indigenous peoples
  recover lost knowledge\, traditions\, and rituals through the study of mu
 seum collections. In 2012 and 2014 she co-organized visits by the Sakha Re
 public’s (Yakutia) delegation to the American Museum of Natural History in
  New York.In this talk\, Solovyeva will explore the museum’s role in shapi
 ng community identities\, specifically for indigenous peoples\, focusing o
 n the relationship between the American Museum of Natural History in New Y
 ork and indigenous communities in Siberia. Historically\, the role of muse
 ums was limited to collecting\, preserving\, and exhibiting objects from d
 ifferent collections and cultures. In recent years\, however\, museums hav
 e expanded their mission and made efforts to help sustain and revitalize i
 ndigenous cultures and traditions by engaging and educating visitors\, as 
 well as opening their resources to native researchers\, craftsmen\, and sp
 iritual leaders. Museums have also begun to loan or even repatriate sacred
  ceremonial objects to their native communities. In doing so\, indigenous 
 peoples are not only able to recover and revitalize lost knowledge\, but r
 estore the links between current and future generations and their ancestor
 s. This revitalization of lost knowledge is important to the identity and 
 continuity of native peoples\, as they consider themselves nations in the 
 making.This event is part of our 'Cultures of Conservation' initiative\, s
 upported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Museum's Role in Sustaining and Revitaliz
 ing the Cultures and Traditions of Indigenous Peoples
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