Prof. Adam Kuper to Hold a Public Lecture and Seminar at VMU

On Thursday, 19 October, at 16:00, Adam Kuper, Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science will hold a public lecture and seminar “From the Museum of Other People to the Cosmopolitan Museum”. The lecture will take place at Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Social Sciences (Jonavos str. 66 Kaunas, room 323).

Museums of Other People put on display an exotic world of ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ peoples who lived far away or long ago. Today these museums are charged with propagating colonialist, even racist, attitudes, with cultural appropriation, and even with outright robbery. In their place come Identity Museums, or museums of ‘Tribal Art’.  Could we imagine a cosmopolitan museum that transcends local, or ethnic or national identities, tracks exchanges across political frontiers, brings out connections, makes comparisons?

Adam Kuper is the Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Visiting Professor at Boston University, and a recipient of the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has authored or edited 19 books and published over 100 journal articles.

Organizer: The Center of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University.