Episode 10: Ancestral Revivalism: Identity vs Cultural Re-embodiment with Diana Lempel


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Oct 04 2021 107 mins  

Diana received a BA in British & American History and Literature (Harvard College, 2005), a MUP (Master’s of Urban Planning) in Cultural Heritage and Neighborhood Development (Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2012), and a MA in Landscape Studies (Harvard University, 2018). She loves public libraries, baroque chamber music, and speculative fiction, and is the mother of two boys, a cat, and two kitchens: one in Cambridge, MA, and another at “Beaver Meadow,” in Sunderland, MA. She served as the Doing History Curator for Cambridge Historical Society from 2016-2020, participating in AASLH award-winning and Mass Humanities grant funded programs, and in 2020-21 was the Researcher-in-Residence at the deCordova Art Museum’s exhibition “Visionary New England,” with her project “annsisters : the Lost Library of Latona.”

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Instagram: @the_annsisters

Other links from our discussion:

Prudence Carter

Book: Ethnic Options by Mary C. Waters or this Short version Pdf

Book: On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder

Karen Ward and Slí An Chroí

New Bedford Waterfront Festival

Music by: Auld Lang Syne