It will be the first academic discussion between Poland, Germany and Australia on the problematic collection of human remains, ethnographic objects and photographs collected in Australia in the early 20th century by the German researcher Hermann Klaatsch and, since the territorial changes following the Second World War, held in the collections of the University of Wroclaw in Poland.
This collection, although not gathered by Polish researchers, has become a sensitive legacy, a difficult heritage of the University of Wrocław illustrating non-obvious historical entanglements between Australia, Germany and Poland. Both their origin and their use raise ethical controversies today, that are set in the postcolonial, postwar and post-communist contexts.
