Program
Tuesday 27/11
- 16:30-18.00: Arrival and informal reception at Gustavianum, Uppsala University museum, Akademigatan 3, Uppsala: Refreshments and guided tour in the museum.
Wednesday 28/11
- 9:00-9:10: Anne Ingvarsson, chief curator at Gustavianum, Uppsala university museum, Historic collections/bioarchaeologist: Welcome and introduction.
- 9:10-9:40: Kicki Eldh, investigator, Swedish National Heritage Board, exhibition: Guidelines for handling human remains in museum collections. Work in progress. Questions.
- 9:50-10:20: Ingela Chef Holmberg, investigator, Swedish National Heritage Board, collection: Return of some objects, a guide for the identification and repatriation or restitution of objects in museum collections. Questions.
- 10:30-10:50: Coffee
- 10:50-11:20: Else-Britt Filipsson, curator/archaeologist, Göteborgs stadsmuseum: Om hur Göteborgs stadsmuseum har arbetat med och ta fram och förankra riktlinjer kring mänskliga kvarlevor på museet. Questions.
- 11:30-12:00 General discussion, morning
- 12:00-13:00: Lunch (probably box lunch at Gustavianum)
- 13:00-13:30: Kicki Eldh, investigator, Swedish National Heritage Board, exhibition: Corpses in Cabinets, report from the conference Death and Culture II in York. Questions.
- 13:40-14:10: Jonny Geber, lecturer in Biological Anthropology, Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences University of Otago, New Zealand: The social bioarchaeology of structural violence: Recognising the value of 19th-century archaeological and historical human skeletal collections. Questions.
- 14:20-14:40: Coffee
- 14:40-15:10: Martin Schultz, curator at the Museum of Ethnography-National museums for world culture, Stockholm: Repatriation and the identification of "critical" objects at the Statens museer för världskultur. Fast forward into the past? Questions.
- 15.20-16.00: General discussion, afternoon
- 18:30: Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum invites you all to a workshop dinner (more info about the place for the dinner later)
Thursday 29/11
- 9:30-10:00: Dan Jibreus, former administrator at Karolinska institute, Unit for Medical History and Heritage (associated): Repatriation and the Karolinska Institute Collection of North American Indian Crania. Questions.
- 10:10-10:40: Carl-Gösta Ojala, researcher in archaeology, Uppsala University: Debates on repatriation and reburial of Sámi human remains. Questions.
- 10:50-11:20: Hirofumi Kato, professor of archaeology, Hokkaido University, Japan: Collections of Ainu human remains and reburial debates in Japan. Questions.
- 11:30-12:00: General discussion and concluding of the workshop. 12:00 Lunch (No-Host)
Host
The event was hosted by Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum.