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LSA 2009/10 Theme Year

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Native American Studies Events

January 28-29
Lecture: January 28, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Workshop: January 29 12:00 - 2:00pm
1014 Tisch Hall

False Starts: Native Americans, Representation, and Museums

Professor Steven Conn, Professor and Director of the Public History Program, Ohio State University

Biography:
Steven Conn is author of several books, including Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 (2000); History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the 19th Century (2004); and most recently Do Museums Still Need Objects? (2010). He is also professor and director of Public History at Ohio State University and editor of the e-journal Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. Although Professor Conn has written extensively on topics related to the Eisenburg Institute and College of Literatures, Sciences and the Arts themes for 2009-10, his newest project has nothing to do with them at all. Conn is presently writing a history of anti-urbanism in the 20th century.

Sponsored by UM Native American Studies Program and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.