Just Some Write-Ups

Maayong hapon kanatong tanan! A few days ago, when I first shared on my Facebook profile the poster for this event, another friend of mine on the platform, as well as a Carolinian contemporary, shared the same post on his profile with a caption beginning with the sentence: “Huge part of our history is in the archives in Spain.” A well-known fact among us within the academe, lesser known and likely even taken for granted by those outside it. If you tuned in to last month’s installment of this lecture series, you will probably recall how a good number of questions during the open forum revolved around the ethics of this whole “former colonizers still controlling much of the archives” arrangement and how, despite a recent cultural shift [1] marked by a growing awareness among young people of just how much “unlearning” and “decolonizing” there is to do, some issues still remain somewhat “dense”—to use the word of our previous speaker, Dr. Cristina Juan. While these universities and ...