From Ancient Americas to Ancestral Abiayala

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@ From Ancient @media screen and (max-width: 575px){ } Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm The Diane Wolfe Lecture Speaker: Juliana Ramírez Herrera, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Indigenous Art and Archaeology of the Ancestral Americas and of Colonial Latin American @media screen and (max-width: 575px){ } Join Dr. Juliana Ramírez Herrera, curator of the Gardiner Museum’s Ancestral Abiayala Gallery—formerly Ancient Americas—for a conversation on repatriation, broadly understood, and how it shaped her vision for the renovated space. Drawing on other threads of her research, Dr. Ramírez Herrera will situate Ancestral Abiayala within larger conversations about the mobility of belongings, violent and otherwise, and what it might mean to care for them responsibly in museum practice and scholarly writing. The talk offers a behind-the-scenes look at what went into developing the Ancestral Abiayala Gallery, connecting its questions to broader intellectual debates in the field. General: $25 Gardiner Friends: $21 Patron Members: Free Students: Free Gardiner Friends, log in to access your discount.* Not a Gardiner Friend yet? Join now at the Friend level or above to save