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Lecture: ‘All But the Bones’
“All but the Bones”: Reading Taíno remains in Hans Sloane’s “A Voyage to Jamaica”
Visiting from Columbia University, literature scholar KIMBERLY TAKAHATA will talk about the famous 18th century Irish scientist, medical doctor and philosopher Hans Sloane, whose book about his travels to Jamaica influenced the development of science and taxonomy. For Hans Sloane, the eventual founder of the British Museum, everything—and everyone—was collectible. Her talk will discuss how Sloane’s use of natural history conventions in Jamaica categorize the remains of indigenous Taíno peoples as observable artifacts that supposedly prove their extermination. By emphasizing the physical preservation of these remains, she demonstrates how Sloane’s narrative is actually dependent on the care of the living for their dead to provide a model for resisting settler colonial narratives of removal.
Toiletry Drive for NYC’s Bowery Mission
Help homeless families from NYC living in the Bowery Mission with toiletry donations. Donations will continue to be accepted until next Thursday, Nov. 14. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to students Richard Cole, Sean Weir or Caroline Claro through their Wagner emails.
Wagner Int’l Film Fest screening: ‘Summer Pasture’
“Summer Pasture” (2011, 85 min.) is a fascinating, immersive documentary about a family of nomads in Tibet. Their way of life hasn’t changed in 4,000 years, but the pull of modernity grows stronger.
Directors Lynn True & Nelson Walker III will attend the screening.
Review @ https://nyti.ms/31xX816