Sensitive Legacy in University Collections

Sensitive Legacy in University Collections: Between Adaptation and Restitution

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Centre for European Studies, The Australian National University; The Urban Memory Foundation; Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław
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Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Fryderyka Joliot-Curie 12
PLZ
50-383
Ort
Wrocław
Land
Poland
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Hybrid
Vom - Bis
14.11.2024 -
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Hilary Howes, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, The Australian National University

We are delighted to invite you to the conference Sensitive Legacy in University Collections: Adaptation and Restitution, organized by the ANU Centre for European Studies in collaboration with The Urban Memory Foundation and the University of Wroclaw, Poland. It will be the first academic discussion between Poland, Germany and Australia on the problematic collection of human remains, ethnographic objects and photographs collected in Australia in the early 20th century by the German researcher Hermann Klaatsch and, since the territorial changes following the Second World War, held in the collections of the University of Wroclaw in Poland.

Sensitive Legacy in University Collections: Between Adaptation and Restitution

This will be the first academic discussion between Poland, Germany and Australia on the problematic collection of human remains, ethnographic objects and photographs collected in Australia in the early 20th century by the German researcher Hermann Klaatsch and, since the territorial changes following the Second World War, held in the collections of the University of Wroclaw in Poland.

Programm

09.00 - Opening - Prof. Renata Tańczuk, Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław; Dr. Katarzyna Williams, Centre for European Studies, The Australian National University

09.10 - 'A loss of journey': Reasons for seeking the repatriation of First Nations Australian Ancestral Remains - Dr. Hilary Howes, ARC DECRA Fellow, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University

09.30 - The scientific context and social influence of Hermann Klaatsch’s anthropological research in early twentieth century Australia - Prof. Paul Turnbull, Professor Emeritus, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania; Honorary Professor, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, The Australian National University

09.50 - We hear their voices now. The story of Yawuru’s journey to repatriate their stolen ancestors - Sarah Yu, Special Projects Coordinator and curator at Nyamba Buru Yawuru; Naomi Appleby, a Yawuru and Karajarri woman, Special Projects Coordinator at Nyamba Buru Yawuru

10.30 - Reconciliation processes and truth-telling - Dr. Katarzyna Williams, Centre for European Studies, The Australian National University

10.40 - Coffee break

11.00 - Hermann Klaatsch and his legacy from Australia - Dr. Corinna Erckenbrecht, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums, Mannheim, Germany

11.30 - Hermann Klaatsch's legacy in Polish contexts - Dr. Łukasz Bukowiecki, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw, Poland

12.00 - Exchange of perspectives - panel discussion with Q&A - Dr. Corinna Erckenbrecht, Dr. Łukasz Bukowiecki, Dr. Hilary Howes, Prof. Paul Turnbull, Sarah Yu, Naomi Appleby, Dr. Katarzyna Williams - Panel moderated by Dr. Magdalena Wróblewska (Director of the National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw)

13.15 - Lunch break (meal on your own)

14.00 - The post-German material legacy of the University of Wrocław as a dissonant heritage - Dr. Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk, The Museum of the University of Wrocław

14.20 - Worlds enclosed in showcases. Exhibition of non-European art at the University of Wrocław Museum - Mgr. Agata Stasińska, The National Museum in Wrocław

14.40 - Historical and ethical aspects of maintaining scientific collections at the Museum of Natural History of the University of Wrocław - Prof. Jan Kotusz, The Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław

15.00 - ‘A horn of plenty’: on the troubling heritage of anatomical collections from the time of the Third Reich - Dr. Kamila Uzarczyk, Wrocław Medical University

15.20 - Sensitive collections – challenges and commitments in university museum management plans and practices - Mgr. Marta Szaszkiewicz, University of Gdańsk - Museum of the University of Gdańsk; Dr. Joanna Ślaga, Jagiellonian University – Museum of the Jagiellonian University

15.40 - Q&A

16.00 - Conclusions

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