Truth Telling: Colonial and Racial Legacies
In 1905 the Edinburgh-trained anatomist Dr Richard Berry (1867-1962) left Scotland to take up his duties as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Melbourne (est. 1853). Inspired by Edinburgh’s Anatomical Museum, Berry began to develop Melbourne’s own ‘collection’ of human remains – including those belonging to Indigenous Australians. The Edinburgh Medical School alumnus became one of Australia’s leading eugenicists, whose legacy to this day remains deeply contested in Melbourne.
Join this webinar to hear more about how ongoing projects at Edinburgh and Melbourne are investigating, and finding ways to repair, their universities’ colonial and racial legacies - and what they might learn from one another.
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