From the Kislak Stacks
Join us for these monthly lunchtime presentations (noon – 1 pm) by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focusing on specific works or small archives/collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.
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For Future Generations: Indigenous Materials in the Archives
Emily Jean Leischner, Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society and In-Resident Researcher at the Kislak Center
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September 19, 2025, 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Virtual (link will be sent to registrants)
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Open to the Public
Hosted by: Kislak Center
How do archives best care for the Indigenous knowledge in their collections? Reflecting on a year in residence at the Kislak Center grappling with this question, Emily will share what progress has been made collaborating with staff to make Indigenous materials at the Kislak Center easier to discover for Indigenous community members, Penn’s campus, and the general public. This talk will touch on the importance of language and good metadata, developing internal protocols, and next steps for future engagement with Indigenous scholars and communities.
About the Speaker
Emily Jean Leischner is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society and in-resident researcher at the Kislak Center for 2024-2025. She is a non-Indigenous, community-based scholar and historian who studies and works with museums, archives, and libraries that hold Indigenous collections. To learn more about her research, you can watch her last From the Kislak Stacks talk and learn about her most recent collaboration with Indigenous Nations at the APS.mni Award of Merit in 2010.
Event Series
Detail from “The Flying Head Put to Flight by a Woman Parching Acorns” plate in David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (Lockport, NY: Turner & McCollum, printers, Democrat Office, 1848) (RBC E99.I7 C86 1848)