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prmlaurita.bsky.social
Director Pitt Rivers Museum. Prof Museum Studies and Ethics, University of Oxford. New to Blsk
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Today’s handover ceremony was urgent & beautiful, as member of the Dutch colonial coll. committee I was here to witness the moving speeches of NCMMs DG Olugbile Holloway; & the firm commitment of Dutch Minister of Culture Eppo Bruins & Said Kasmi, Sec. of State Rotterdam www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Who Owns Museum Collections? And what should we do with them? Saturday 29 March, 10.00-16.00 bit.ly/3QfisUJ

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Cake for all @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social amazing staff and volunteers this morning! Last year we had more visitors than ever!! 509,703 🥳🙏🏼 thank you to everyone for visiting

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www.government.nl/latest/news/... Very glad to see this news

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Now we have scientific evidence to back up what trans women have been saying all along: we're at a *disadvantage* to all cis people, men or women. www.outsports.com/2024/4/12/24...

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🔴The Elephant in the Room is that Brexit Has Made Britain a Much Poorer Place The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...

submitted 90 days ago • 22 comments

"You scratch my back..." A drawer full of decorative back-scratchers just itching to be used.

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Come and work with us! Pitt Rivers is looking for a Curatorial Assistant to join our busy Collections team, working across all collections areas, including objects, photographs, manuscripts, sound & film. Full-time, permanent post. Grade 4: £27,838.00 inc OUW. Closing date: 2 Jan 2025 bit.ly/4fQoy94

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I just returned from Bhutan, a small kingdom with the explicit mandate to increase the Gross National Happiness of its people. Imagine if every policy discussion started with “will we increase our collective happiness by this act?” Now visualize it here. And start. youtu.be/7g_t1lzn-1A?...

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

Come join us next week @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social for Palestinian embroidery (Tatreez) workshops in collaboration with the Tatreez Collective and the Arab British Centre. And create Tatreez inspired by Palestinian objects in the museum’s collection.

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Glad to see this raised in the House by the amazing @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social after our work with Naga and Shuar activists last month to stop the auction. Also, Meeting with Lord Paul Boateng and Lady Black of Strome at House of Lords on Monday to work towards changes to UK law.

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Us looking for 'that' drawer...

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

In an ‘academic foresight’ piece I wrote for the Association of American Museums, I wrote a little on how @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social we work with our Naga colleagues to change our way of working towards prioritising cultural care and repair & repatriation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Apols for the self promotion but #BurningtheBooks was written during the first Trump era (& in part responded to it). The coming years portend intensified attacks on knowledge. My CODA re-ups the argument for libraries & archives as infrastructure of democracy.

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Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

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The Dutch gov is in deep crisis w last week’s events. PM+cabinet jumped to conclusions before considering the facts. Rightfully calling out antisemitism but ignoring the Islamophobia, blaming 500k Dutch-🇲🇦 citizens. Thank u, Ramsey Nasr, for speaking truth to power www.linkedin.com/posts/msteen...

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Thank you to @us.theconversation.com for this article @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/auction-hous...

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Been considering authorship practices in academia, and I think "Guest, Gift and Ghost authorship" no longer describes the full range of unethical issues that we see. Here's a draft longer list. Would love opinions. static1.squarespace.com/static/64914... #researchintegrity #academicsky

submitted 103 days ago • 15 comments

❤️ this Haka, most powerful communication expressing the profound disagreement with changes to the founding treaty: Te Tiriti [the Treaty of Waitangi]. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Slightly late to the party but we're here now...

submitted 104 days ago • 12 comments

First post! … today my “academic foresight” piece came out by the AAM: on a future in which museums can be part of a process of societal healing by enabling community-led work towards reconciliation and prioritizing listening, cultural care, and epistemological equity www.aam-us.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments