At 12 noon on Thursday, October 17, in the Bancroft Library Roundtable series, Andrew Garrett will present a Zoom talk “The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall — Indigenous and University Histories in Bancroft Collections.” Register at ucberk.li/kroeber. Abstract:
"Much of Andrew Garrett’s book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California (MIT Press, 2023) is grounded in The Bancroft Library’s collections relating to anthropologist and linguist Alfred Kroeber; Kroeber’s family, including his second wife, Theodora, and his daughter, Ursula K. Le Guin; his colleagues, students, and collaborators throughout California; and Phoebe Hearst, who directed and funded his work. In this presentation, Garrett will talk about a few of the archival objects — manuscripts and photos — that had a significant impact on how he framed his argument about Kroeber’s documentation of Indigenous stories."
