This panel will use case studies to look at issues surrounding the acquisition of individual works and collections by libraries and museums. Register for the symposium (Friday, December 3).
Register for the keynote address by Erin L. Note: participants must register separately for the keynote address (Thursday, December 2) and the symposium (Friday, December 3).
BOOK COLLECTOR ETHICS REGISTRATION
Special pre-conference virtual event, hosted by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Penn Museum: Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul University), Imperialism, Colonialism, Reparations, and the "Universal" Museum Thursday, December 2, 2021, 12:30-2pm (virtual event) Advance registration required for this separate event.
Note: The keynote lecture and the symposium will be recorded and made available on youtube in the weeks following this event. She is the author of Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors (Yale 2016) and is currently completing Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments (Norton 2021). Thompson, Associate Professor of Fraud, Forensics, Art Law & Crime, Department of Art and Music, John Jay College, City University of New York. In light of current debates about historic record (Who decides? What qualifies? Whose story does it tell?) this symposium will reach out to colleagues working in archives and special collections to reflect on the urgent ethical challenges confronting their repositories around collection building past and present, including description provenance repatriation monetization the right to be forgotten and post-custodial/post-colonial archives and print collections. BorrowDirect+ (search & browse partner libraries).Lippincott Library of the Wharton School.Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.
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