Over the last 10 years as a Canada Research Chair, Dr Greer has been working on a First Nation-university-museum partnership centered on practices of repatriation and repair-work through the production of travelling exhibitions, shared online collections, and critical research into museum and archival collections for the repatriation of human remains and sacred objects. In this presentation, she will unpack ‘why geography matters’ through the lens of her three international research projects involving the Chicago Field Museum (IL), Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, PA), and University Colorado, Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs, CO).
EVENT DETAILS
Friday, March 28, 6:00 p.m., F213 (Nipissing Theatre), Nipissing University, 100 College Drive
About the speaker
Kirsten Greer is an Associate Professor in Geography and History at Nipissing University, and the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies. As a historical geographer, her CRC program addresses specifically reparative environmental histories through interdisciplinary, integrative, and community-engaged research. During her ten years as a Canada Research Chair, she has been working in relationship with Dokis First Nation, Nipissing First Nation, and the North Bay Museum on a First Nation-university-museum partnership. Greer also collaborates closely with physical geographers and environmental scientists to devise interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities and the geophysical sciences to think critically, historically, and scientifically about global environmental challenges.