<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Calibri Light, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">The final talk of the Spring 2024 Colloquium sponsored by </span></font><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anthropology, History and STS </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">will feature</span><a href="https://history.la.psu.edu/directory/christopher-heaney/"> <span style="font-size: 15px;">Professor Christopher Heaney</span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">on Monday, April 29<sup>th</sup> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif;">Monday, April 29, 2024</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif;">4-5:30pm</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif;">MIT Building E51-095</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in;"><font face="Calibri Light, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><b>Trepanning Incas: Ancient PeruvianSurgery and AmericanAnthropology's Monroe Doctrine</b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in;"><font face="Calibri Light, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in;"><font face="Calibri Light, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">In 1863 an American archaeologist acquired a skull from aPeruvian antiquarian in Cuzco, inciting a debate over thecomplexity of "ancient" surgery worldwide. The skull hadbeen found in the Inca estate of Yucay, and thequadrilateral hole in its frontal bone suggested that it hadbeen trepanned—a medical operation to relieve pressureupon the brain. This lecture reconstructs the process bywhich "Inca trepanation" became an accepted scientificfact, and the looting and trade in "Inca" and Andeanancestors and crania it relied upon to provide furthermuseum "specimens" to prove or disprove Indigenous skillat this high-risk maneuver. Central to this process was thework of Andean collectors and Peruvian surgeons like theanthropologist Julio C. Tello, whose authority was soughtbut effaced by Americanist anthropologists in the UnitedStates. The comparison of their surviving museums anddisplays in Lima and Washington, DC reveals how we canre-collect the more radical and anti-racist knowledges inthe collections these Andean actors helped build, toimagine their re-encounter as "scientific ancestors" today.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>