Sabine Eggers from the Natural History Museum will address some of the experiences of NHM in repatriating human remains to New Zealand and Hawaii and work with the Selk’nam in Tierra de Fuego. 
Do bring your lunch and join us for the talk and discussion! 
https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en/sabine_eggers 

Over the past decades, nuanced research and engagement with material objects has emerged  as an important part of historical and anthropological research. Following trends emerging from the fields of  history, history of science, history of anthropology, and visual and museum anthropology, this group attends to the role of collections of natural and human-made materials as catalysts or jumping off points for historical and contemporary engagements in the production of knowledge widely construed, in all time periods and geographic regions.

The Vienna-based Collections and Collecting Brown Bag Lunch Seminar aims to bring together colleagues across disciplines and foster academic discussions for regular in-person and informal seminars where work-in-progress papers and projects will be presented. We invite members to discuss how objects have been gathered, circulated, bought and sold, organized, modified, and represented. That is, how they operate in and create different systems of value and to think about the relations they embody.

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Next meeting: 06 June 2023