We are pleased to invite you to a talk by Maria Luísa Lucas titled “Ethics and the Circulation of Indigenous Data: A Few Paradoxes from South America.” This event is part of the ‘Technicalities Speaker Series’ and will take place on:
📅 Date: November 27, 2024
🕙 Time: 10:00 – 11:30
📍 Location: Leeuwenborch, Room B0076
🗣️ Discussant: Dr. Paula Granados García, Head of the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
Dr. Maria Luísa Lucas is an Assistant Professor at the University of São Paulo (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology – MAE/USP) and has been conducting fieldwork in Amazonia since 2010, primarily with the Bora people in the Caquetá-Putumayo region and Carib-speaking peoples in the Guianas. Her research focuses on Indigenous historical agency, anthropology of art, objects, museums, and collaborative methodologies. She has also coordinated international projects on documentation and the digital return of archives and museum collections, including collaborations with CNRS-France, UNESCO, and The British Museum.
Dr. Paula Granados García is the Head of the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum. An archaeologist by training, she specialises in data and knowledge modelling via Linked Open Data technologies, the creation and mediation of knowledge in museums, and collaborative curation of cultural heritage initiatives through digital media and experimental technologies.
In the poster, you see José Fernando Teteye records songs during a Bora slit drum ritual (February 2024). Picture by Maria Luísa Lucas.
For questions, please reach out to Stephanie Hobbis, stephanie.hobbis@wur.nl
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