“The Book as Living Relation: Collaborative Study of Lenape (Delaware) Belongings with Indigenous Communities of Origin” (52 mins.)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

In the spring of 2024, as a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) in Hamburg, Suzanne Conklin Akbari delivered a lecture discussing the community-led approach to gathering around Indigenous books and book-adjacent objects (such as wampum), currently residing in museum and library collections in North America and Europe. Akbari’s talk offers methodological insights concerning collaboration, relationality, and the status of the book that inform the Hidden Stories project as a whole.