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The Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture: Philip J. Deloria
May 17, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Free
Philip J. Deloria — “When the Stars Fell: A Multi-Epistemological Inquiry into the Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833”
Wednesday, May 17
4:30–6 PM
On Nov. 12, 1833, North Americans witnessed up to 150,000 meteors streak across the night sky each hour. This “shower of stars” was recorded not only in settler diaries and letters, but in Plains Indian winter counts, the quilt patterns of enslaved Black people, and many other places. The distinctive ideas generated by this celestial event speak volumes about notions of the cosmos and humanity’s place in it among Native American, Black and white communities of the time.
Philip J. Deloria (Dakota descent) is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. He chairs the Repatriation Committee for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, and is the author and editor of books including Playing Indian (1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) and American Studies: A User’s Guide (2017).
Organized by the Department of History. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.
This annual lectureship honors cultural historian Eugene Lunn, who during 20 years as a member of the faculty in the UC Davis Department of History distinguished himself as an esteemed teacher and mentor, and an influential scholar in the field of modern European intellectual history.