Lectures on Tap - The Colonial Gaze: Art, Power, and Erasure in the Museum

Join us for an engaging evening where professors, experts, and storytellers bring their thought-provoking lectures to your favorite bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

Hosted by the Lectures on Tap team.

🗓️ Date: September 24th, 2025

🕡 Time: 6:30 PM

📍 Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn (exact address provided in confirmation email)

📚 Lecture: "The Colonial Gaze: Art, Power, and Erasure in the Museum"

🎤 Speaker: Educator and Curator, Dr. Ilk Yasha

In this insightful talk, Dr. Ilk Yasha critically examines how museums have historically constructed and displayed representations of Black and Indigenous peoples through a colonial lens. This discussion will interrogate the role institutions have played in objectifying, distorting, and erasing these communities.

We will explore the lasting legacies of colonialism embedded in exhibition design, curatorial writing, and institutional narratives, revealing how museums have reinforced white supremacy, cultural hierarchy, and historical amnesia. Central to this conversation are the voices of Black and Indigenous communities that are actively challenging these entrenched systems.

Dr. Yasha will highlight how artists, curators, scholars, and activists are reclaiming narratives, repatriating stolen objects, and reshaping museums into spaces for truth-telling, healing, and accountability.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in critical conversations about representation and power in our cultural institutions!

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

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