Workshop Report: “Human Remains in University Collections - Comparison and Entanglements”

Participants from France, (Southwest) Germany, Switzerland, the USA and Tanzania met for an informal exchange on the more than 100-year-old “collections” of human remains and the current challenges in connection with the commemoration and reparation of the injustice represented by these collections. Organized primarily by three FRIAS Fellows (Jenny Reardon, Anika Walke, Andreas Mehler) with support from the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI), the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), the workshop participants explored the approaches to research mentioned in the title - comparisons and entanglements - through the exchange of knowledge and practical experiences. The opportunity to hold such a workshop arose from the visit of Evelynn Hammonds (Harvard University), a distinguished researcher in the field of the history of science and medicine and Chair of Harvard University's Committee on Human Remains in University Museum Collections.

You can read the results of the exchange in the full report of the workshop (PDF).