October 13, 4pm, Kulynych Auditorium in Byrum Welcome Center The Lam Museum’s annual celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day will feature a screening of “Bring Them Home / Aiskótáhkapiyaaya.” The film tells the story of a small group of Blackfoot people and their mission to […]
Commemoration is a process that involves witness, preservation, interpretation, and performance. This process calls upon human creativity, commitment, emotional connection, and contemporary context. Focusing on music based on the words of young people who witnessed the Holocaust—many of whom did not survive—the performance uses the […]
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, the Lam Museum brought award-winning Hopi artist, poet, and educator Ramson Lomatewama to campus for a week-long residency. While on campus, Ramson spoke to over 300 students in 10 courses across the disciplines of Anthropology, Creative Writing, Art […]
Campus visit by Dr. David Odo, Director of Academic and Public Programs, Division Head and Research Curator Harvard Museums. Through a series of class visits, workshops and lectures, Dr. Odo engaged with WFU students and faculty in Art and East Asian Languages and Culture, staff […]
Assistant professor of Art History Merih Denali organized a powerful visit with Kelema Lee Moses who shared the ancestral relationships and oral storytelling traditions of Pacific Islanders to the land, sea, and sky – to places and spaces. The familial relationships between Kānaka Maoli (Native […]
March 17, 2022 at 6 pm, The Lam Museum of Anthropology The Lam Museum welcomes I Gde Made Indra Sadguna, a musicology doctoral candidate specializing in Balinese gamelan, and Made Ayu Desiari, who specializes in Balinese dance. Indra will speak about the many ways of […]
The Search for Wachovia, a commissioned new play and recorded performance delivered during the Reynolda Conference “Becoming American: Moravians and their Neighbors, 1772-1822.” Collaborators: WFU Dept of Religion, WFU Dept of German, WFU Museum of Anthropology, Winston-Salem State University, Old Salem, Museum of Early […]