CLOSING REMARKS | with Deborah Thomas

Center for Experimental Ethnography

The final event features closing remarks by Deborah Thomas (CEE)

<h1>The Problem of Decolonizing Museums</h1>

<p>with <a href="https://decolonizingmuseums.com/about-the-cee/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Deborah Thomas</a>, Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography</p>

<h2>Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and the Problem of Decolonizing Museums</h2>

<p>Our website, <a href="https://decolonizingmuseums.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://decolonizingmuseums.com/,</a> includes detailed information, resources, biographies, panelist videos, and the conference schedule.</p>

<h3>A hybrid international conference organized by the Center for Experimental Ethnography and hosted by the Penn Museum, 20-23 October 2021</h3>

<p>Over the past several decades scholars and practitioners have critically reconsidered the role of ethnographic museums in the development and representation of knowledge about people and processes throughout the world. Persistent questions have emerged again and again: What are the relationships between colonialism and collection? What issues of accountability surround contemporary knowledge production and representation? How do we think through the challenges of repatriation? And what might repair look like? These are not new questions, and they have been asked not only within museum settings, but also across the discipline of anthropology as a whole for the past thirty years. Yet as museums attempt to reevaluate their practices of collecting, exhibiting, and repatriating, we must still confront – and determine a new relationship to – the legacies of Enlightenment-based scientific humanism and its imperial underpinnings.</p><p>This conference builds on some of the issues being raised within European and South African contexts, while also thinking through the particularities of the view from the United States. Drawing from the insights and experiences of scholars, museum practitioners, and educators, we seek to join the conversations related to settler colonialism to those related to slavery and imperialism. We also seek to chart a terrain that emphasizes multi-vocality and multi-modality, and that imagines the kinds of collaboration that might be possible between European, North American, South African, and other stakeholders. Finally, we want to elaborate new forms of relationship museums might have to their audiences.</p>

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