“In the debate on restitution, there is a risk of replacing analysis with slogans”

[in Portuguese] Isabel Salema writes: The discussion around sensitive heritage such as human remains continues at the University of Coimbra...

Trish Biers, responsible for the Duckworth Collections at University of Cambridge, UK, which constitutes perhaps one of the largest collections of human remains, came to tell the University of Coimbra (UC) that his work is not easy.

Nothing that his Portuguese colleagues who deal with “sensitive heritage” have not also spoken during the seminar Sensitive Heritage: Histories, Universities, Cities, which took place at the General Library of the University of Coimbra and that sought to debate the experiences of the two academic institutions.

 

 

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