February 27 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

@The Peale Museum

A public conversation with Michael Harrower, Aja Lans, and Anand Pandian of Johns Hopkins University

This event is a chance to take in “The Future of Here” exhibition and to think about these ideas together with two archaeologists from Johns Hopkins University, Michael Harrower and Aja Lans, along with one of the curators of the exhibition, Anand Pandian, an anthropologist at Johns Hopkins.

Michael Harrower is an archaeologist whose research concentrates on long-term histories of civilizations in Africa and Arabia. His research has concentrated on spatial, political, and ideological dynamics of water, and most recently focuses on ancient trade and discovery of archaeological sites using satellite imagery.

Aja Lans is a Black feminist and archaeologist whose research primarily focuses on the lived experiences of African descended peoples in North America. She specializes on objectification of human remains contained within university and museum collections, arguing for the repatriation of Black Ancestors who are “owned” and the preservation of Black burial grounds.

Anand Pandian is a cultural anthropologist working on a new book project on decay, waste, and the crafting of ecological futures. “The Future of Here” grows out of a course he co-taught at Johns Hopkins with artist Jordan Tierney in the fall of 2024.

Link: https://www.thepeale.org/event/what-we-can-learn-from-an-archaeology-of-the-future/

*This conversation is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Undergraduate Program in Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University.