Name: Transformative Cultural Materiality: Displacement, Lifeways & Identity
Start: 2025-10-10T14:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-10T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Gilcrease Museum

Transformative Cultural Materiality: Displacement, Lifeways & Identity

Explore how displaced communities use material culture to preserve traditions, assert identity, and resist colonial logics.
About this Event

Join us for a works-in-progress seminar with Dr. Zachary Qualls and Dr. Nkem Ike, exploring how displaced and migrating communities use material culture: clothing, tools, housing, and sacred items, to preserve traditions, reassert identity, and resist colonial and racial logics. Together, we’ll discuss how cultural memory and creativity shape new material worlds that bridge past and present while imagining future freedoms.