Events

Drawing lessons from The Natural History Museum’s ongoing project “We Refuse to Die,” NHM Research Director Steve Lyons explores how communities are pushing back against the dominant representation of so-called “sacrifice zones” as sites of powerlessness and victimization, metabolizing grief into collective strength and community power.

In this guest lecture at Brown University, NHM Director Beka Economopoulos links the theoretical concerns of public humanities — history and memory, museums and memorials, expertise and experience, community cultural development, and material culture — with the tactical work of an activist, museum-as-platform practice.

On the concept of nature, the history of environmentalism, and the psychologies of the science denial and climate activism movements.

On relations between humans and nonhumans, civilization and its others

On our community collaborations, exhibitions, and campaigns—from the viral “Kick Koch Off the Board” effort to the Red Road to DC.