by Quentin Lewis

Weeknotes: 1/7/24-1/13/24

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This Week:

  • Everyone in my family, including me, was some kind of sick for part of the week. I stayed home with my daughter on Monday, and both of us kind of took care of each other. The main thing we did was play through Kings Quest V together, which I remember playing as a kid. We used a walk-through (the Kings Quest games are unbearably tough and unforgiving) which made it more like a visual novel, and we had a lot of fun.
  • At work, I made some progress on our revamp of our archaeology exhibit, meeting with a design team and I already feel much more excited about our prospects and possibilities.
  • I spent a lot of time digesting the new NAGPRA regulations, and thinking about how they’ll affect the Yager Museum, and other institutions. We’ve been pretty active recently in our NAGPRA work, but this will both speed us up, and change how we do business in that regard.
  • We also engaged in some consultation with tribes and are moving on the final stages of both repatriation of objects and ancestors with them, as well as the return of both to their territories.
  • I finished reading Erica Lagalisse’s fascinating book “Occult Features of Anarchism”, which shows how intertwined activism and mysticism have been, since the enlightenment, as well as the role of patriarchy in separating and hindering both trends. A really rich book to which I will no doubt return soon.
  • I trained two new work study students at the Museum. We’ve been really understaffed this J-Term and it’s good to plug the gaps.
  • I did some work getting ready for upcoming programs in the Spring.