Final Conference Precarious Provenance – Human Remains from Africa’s Colonial Past before 1919 in Scientific Collections of Baden-Württemberg

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Final Conference Precarious Provenance – Human Remains from Africa’s Colonial Past before 1919 in Scientific Collections of Baden-Württemberg

Veranstalter
Prof Dr Ernst Seidl (University of Tübingen), Dr des Annika Vosseler (University of Tübingen)
Veranstaltungsort
University Museum Tübingen
Gefördert durch
German Lost Art Foundation
PLZ
72070
Ort
Tübingen
Land
Deutschland
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Vom - Bis
08.07.2024 -
Website
https://www.unimuseum.uni-tuebingen.de/en/research-education/provenance-research/precarious-provenance
Von
Annika Vosseler, Museum der Universität Tübingen MUT, Universität Tübingen

On 8 July 2024, the joint project "Precarious Provenance – Human Remains from Africa’s Colonial Past before 1919 in Scientific Collections of Baden-Württemberg", funded by the German Lost Art Foundation and the Ministry for Science, Research and Art, will hold its final conference at the University Museum Tübingen MUT. The conference focuses on the results of three years of research into the history of ancestral human remains from Africa before 1919, who are held in four scientific collections in Baden-Württemberg. The research was conducted under the leadership of the MUT scientists.

Final Conference Precarious Provenance – Human Remains from Africa’s Colonial Past before 1919 in Scientific Collections of Baden-Württemberg

Ancestral human remains from Germany’s colonial past

The aim of the joint project was to reconstruct the origin of the ancestral human remains from Africa, which came to four scientific collections in Baden and Württemberg before 1919. This should enable the restitution of the ancestral human remains to the communities of origin in the future. The research focussed on the historical collecting networks in south-west Germany. Hundreds of files, inventory books and archives were scrutinised for this purpose. The findings will now be presented.
The report will be supplemented, and the scope expanded by presentations from colleagues who are also working on the topic of ancestral human remains from Africa and other regions of the world.

Programm

10.00 – 10.20 Registration
10.20 – 10.50 Greetings from the Hosts and Dr Margret Frenz (Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg)
10.50 – 11.35 Dr Fabienne HUGUENIN (Directorate General of the Bavarian State Archives), Dr des Annika VOSSELER (MUT): Results of the joint project “Precarious Provenance”
11.35 – 12.00 Kim HOFMANN (independent researcher, Tübingen): An Anthropological Investigation of Unknown non-European Skulls of the University of Tübingen
12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH
13.30 – 14.00 Julie LIKONDEM (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): The Missing Body of King Bome A Pep of Edea: A Case Study of Reversed Provenance Research
14.00 – 14.30 Valence SILAYO (Department of Archaeology & Heritage, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania): Decolonising Provenance Research: The Role of the Community of Origin in Provenancing Colonial Collections
14.30 – 15.00 COFFEE and TEA
15.00 – 15.25 Stefan MERKER (Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History): Repatriation of Human Remains from Stuttgart to Hawai'i and Aotearoa New Zealand
15.25 – 15.45 Flower MANASE (National Museum of Tanzania, Tanzania), Mèhèza KALIBANI (Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg), Julie LIKONDEM (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): Report and final remarks by the Advisory Board Members of the joint project “Precarious Provenance”
15.45 – 16.30 Final discussion

Kontakt

Dr des Annika Vosseler
University Museum Tübingen MUT
Tel.: 07071 29 74 127
annika.vosseler@uni-tuebingen.de; sekretariat@museum.uni-tuebingen.de

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