Photo from the workshop at ABI. From left to right: Evelynn Hammonds (Harvard University), Jenny Reardon (University of California, Santa Cruz), Tricia Close-König (Strasbourg University).
| © ABIFollowing up on research projects at ABI and the University of Freiburg/ACT on the restitution of Human Remains, the ABI hosted a workshop on Human Remains in University Collections - Comparison and Entanglements on July 15, 2024.
Participants from France, (Southwest) Germany, Switzerland, the United States of America and Tanzania gathered for an informal exchange on both, “collections” of human remains dating back over 100 years, and current challenges related to the commemoration and rectification of injustices represented by these collections. Organised primarily by three FRIAS fellows (Jenny Reardon, Anika Walke, Andreas Mehler) with the support of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI), the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), workshop participants explored avenues of research identified in the title— comparison and entanglements—by sharing knowledge and practical experience. The opportunity to hold such a workshop was linked to the visit by Evelynn Hammonds (Harvard University), an eminent researcher in the fields of the history of science and medicine and Chair of Harvard University’s Committee on Human Remains in University Museum Collections.
Read the full report on the Workshop to learn about the outcomes of the exchange: