The handling of human remains from colonial contexts presents museums, collections and research institutions with complex professional as well as ethical challenges. According to a survey conducted by the German Contact Point, approximately 46% of the unmodified human remains recorded in German museums and university collections cannot be clearly attributed to a specific geographical origin.
The Symposium will draw together discussion of Holocaust-era looted art and cultural property, antiquities taken in the Colonial-era and subsequently, as well as Native American cultural and religious artifacts, ancestors, and repatriation.
The Friends of African and African American Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ 2023 nominee for the Margaret Herz Demant African Art Award, Dr. Kwame Tua Opoku, is a retired United Nations Legal Advisor and a recognized voice in African repatriations.
