New series “Working Paper Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste” published

The work­ing pa­per se­ries is pub­lished on the in­ter­na­tion­al, cross-epochal and in­ter­dis­ci­plinary on­line pub­li­ca­tion plat­form per­spec­tivia.net. The plat­form is op­er­at­ed by the Max We­ber Foun­da­tion https://www.maxwe­ber­s­tiftung.de, the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion’s co­op­er­a­tion part­ner for the dis­sem­i­na­tion of these aca­dem­ic re­sults and ma­te­ri­als ac­cord­ing to the prin­ci­ples of Open Ac­cess and Open Sci­ence.

The his­to­ri­an Lars Müller starts the se­ries with “Re­turns of Cul­tur­al Arte­facts and Hu­man Re­mains in a (Post) Colo­nial Con­text: Map­ping Claims be­tween the Mid-19th Cen­tu­ry and the 1970s” (Work­ing Pa­per Deutsches Zen­trum Kul­turgutver­luste 1/2021) https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2021-00017. The pa­per can be down­load­ed from per­spec­tivia.net in Open Ac­cess as a pdf free of charge.

The pa­per ap­pears in con­nec­tion with the on­line con­fer­ence of the foun­da­tion, which will take place from Novem­ber 17 to 19, 2021 un­der the ti­tle „The Long His­to­ry of Claims for the Re­turn of Cul­tu­ral He­ri­ta­ge from Co­lo­ni­al Con­texts“ and can be fol­lowed via a pub­lic live stream on www.kul­turgutver­luste.de