“It’s Your Curse,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm
Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAnthropologist Deirdre de la Cruz on the efforts to develop and enact reparative approaches to her institutions's Philippines collections.Wolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania2024–2025 FORUM ON KEYWORDS“It’s Your Curse,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical HarmDeirdre de la CruzAssociate Professor of History and Asian Languages and Cultures, University of MichiganThe 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 source communities. In this talk, historical anthropologist Deirdre de la Cruz introduces a