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In August 2006, CBMR staff member Kenneth Bilby presented the Benjamin Botkin Lecture at the Library of Congress. His lecture was titled "Private Stories, Public Folklore, and Contested Histories in Jamaica: Taking the Long View with the Maroons." The same month, he delivered a paper at the Annual Conference of the Society for American Archivists in Washington, D.C., titled "Contemplating the Repatriation of a 'Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity': A case from Jamaica." In November, Bilby attended the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Honolulu, where he presented a paper titled "Spirited Away: Buru As an Ancestral Music in Jamaica and the …