Workshop participants ‘Racism-critical curating’
Prof. Dr. Daniela DöringExternal link held a seminar on racism-critical curating at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Ernst Haeckel House in Jena in the summer semester of 2025.
Using various objects from the Ernst Haeckel House collection, the Master's students from the Applied Media and Cultural StudiesExternal link programme developed ideas on how they could be exhibited.
Seminar papers by students on the History of Natural Sciences master's programme, contributions to the forthcoming anthology of the ‘Ernst Haeckel Postcolonial’ workshop and texts by staff at the Ernst Haeckel House provided the basis for the examination of the objects in terms of the history of science.
Many thanks for the numerous ideas and the inspiring discussion:
Students from Merseburg University of Applied Sciences and the University of Jena, Daniela Döring (Merseburg University of Applied Sciences), Matthias Krüger and Bernd Bock (Phyletic Museum) and Ulrike Lötzsch (Anatomical Collection).