debate 4: remembering german-australian colonial entanglement

This debate presents some of the findings of a German-Australian working group on the countries’ entangled colonial past.

1. In Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglement Lindsay Barrett, Lars Eckstein, Andrew Hurley and Anja Schwarz comment on German and Australian memory work that occurs on the ‘ruins of colonialism’.
2. Anja Schwarz thinks about Australian objects in Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde.
3. Too many Ludwig Leichharts? asks how cultural studies can productively engage with colonial figures like the German-Australian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt.

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