The lecture series brings together international scholars with diverse perspectives across legal, ethical, and professional frameworks. It aims to open up a research field and map the complexities that lie at the intersection of law, ethics, politics, sovereignty, and natural history collections.
Wednesdays, 1-2 pm CET, online.
- 15.10.2025
Legal Restitution Narratives in the 21st Century
Sebastian Spitra (Universität Münster) - 22.10.2025
Fossils and Sovereignty: Sino-American Fossil Dispute in the 1920s
Hsiao-pei Yen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung) - 05.11.2025
Between Stones and Stories: The Nature/Culture Divide in Geological and Paleontological Heritage
Jéssica Tarine Moitinho de Lima (Federal University of Pará) - 12.11.2025
Unethical yet Legal? Reflexions on the Doctrine of Intertemporality in International Law
Rémi Fuhrmann (University of Glasgow) & Melissa Schweizer - 26.11.2025
Access to Scientific Collections for Education, So Close, Yet So Far
Caiubi Emanuel Souza Kuhn (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso) - 03.12.2025
Law and the Appropriation of Nature: Colonial and Postcolonial Orders of Nature
Sigrid Boysen (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität) - 10.12.2025
Nature & Culture as Heritage: Lessons from the UNESCO World Heritage Convention and Museum Practice
Anaïs Mattez (Harvard University) - 17.12.2025
Nature in the Anthropocene: Between Person and Capital?
Julia Dehm (La Trobe University Australia)
