Event Description:
The University of Michigan possesses extensive archival, photographic, archaeological and natural history collections from the Philippines, many of which were built during the American colonial period from objects, images, and ancestors taken without the consent of local communities. This talk introduces a multi-year, collaborative effort by Michigan faculty, curators, collection managers, students, and US- and Philippine-based community partners to develop and enact reparative approaches to these collections.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Deirdre de la Cruz, Associate Professor of History and Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, author of Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal, co-PI of the ReConnect/Recollect Project
Respondent: Erika Gorder, University Archivist, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Host Institution: Rutgers-New Brunswick, School of Arts and Sciences
Co-sponsors: Global Asias, Rutgers University Libraries