Program
Thursday October 26
- 08.30: Coffee and arrivals
- 09.00-09.10: Welcome and information by Vice Principal Ann-Kristin Wallengren, Lund University
- 09.10-09.15: Practical information by Maria Mostadius, The Biological Museum, Lund University
Presentations 1: Chair Olof Ljungström
- 09.15-09.35: Mapping the repatriation process at the Historical Museum at Lund University Jenny Bergman, The Historical Museum at Lund University & Sara Virkelyst, Lund University, Lund
- 09.35-10.00: Potentials of and perspectives of the use of the skeletal remains in the ADBOU collection University of Southern Denmark Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, ADBOU, Odense
- 10.15-10.45: Coffee break
- 10.45-11.05: The human remains collection at the University of Helsinki - history and prospects Risto Väinölä, Luomus, Helsinki
- 11.05-12.00: Panel Talk 1: What is the value of collections of human remains?
This panel explores the broader topic of the value of these collections for science, pedagogy and history in a time when they are increasingly questioned. Are they valuable? And if so, how?
Moderator: Liv Nilsson Stutz- Olof Ljungström, Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm
- Karin Tybjerg, Medical Museion, Copenhagen
- Jonny Geber (by link), University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Liisa Seppänen, Turku University/Helsinki University
- 12.00-13.00: Lunch (free)
Presentations 2: Chair Kicki Eldh
- 13.00-13.25: Changes and challenges: ongoing projects at The Schreiner Collection, Oslo Julia Kotthaus, Oslo University
- 13.25-13.50: The human skeletal collection at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark Niels Lynnerup, Marie Louise Jørkov & Kurt Kjær, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- 13.50-14.15: Archaeological human remains collections in Finland – Conditions, curation, and current issues on agenda Liisa Seppänen, Turku University/Helsinki University
- 14.15-15.00 Panel Talk 2: How to make the collections accessible (including perspectives on digitalization, exhibition, and access for researchers). Should we? And how best to do this? Moderator: Olof Ljungström
- Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, ADBOU, Odense
- Eli Kristine Økland Hausken, University Museum Bergen
- Elin Ahlin Sundman, National Museum of History, Stockholm
- Per Nilsson, Museum of Östergötland, Linköping
- 16.00-17.15: Guided Anatomical Walk, central Lund Fredrik Tersmeden, University Archive, Lund University
- 19.00-21.00: Dinner at Tegnérs Matsalar (in central Lund, at self-cost)
Friday October 27
Presentations 3: Chair Liv Nilsson Stutz
- 09.00-09.25: Human remains as the memory of medicine Karin Tybjerg, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
- 09.25-09.50: Addressing Bare Bones and Human Remains Eli Kristine Økland Hausken, University Museum Bergen
- 09.50-10.15: The osteological collections at the National Historical Museums in Stockholm Elin Ahlin Sundman, The National Historical Museums, Stockholm
- 10.15-10.45: Coffee break
- 10.45-11.30 Panel talk 3: Accession and deaccession. What are our current challenges? This panel talk will discuss the responsibility (and cost) of accession and deaccession, and touch on the connections to repatriation and (re)burial. Moderator: Liv Nilsson Stutz
- Julia Kotthaus, Oslo University
- Niels Lynnerup, Globe Institute, Copenhagen
- Kicki Eldh, Swedish National Heritage Board, RAÄ, Stockholm
- Mikael Jakobsson, Forest- and Saami Museum, Lycksele
- 11.30-12.30: Lunch (free)
- 12.30-12.40: Government assignment. Conditions for returning Sami objects and Sami human remains – Obstacles and possibilities. Kicki Eldh, Swedish National Heritage Board, Visby
- 12.40-14.00: Network meeting. On mandate and renewal of the network work group. Who will host the next meeting, and where.
Host
The event was hosted by Lund University (Historical Museum, The Biological Museum, Department of Archaeology).