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This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. The complexity of archival methodology and thought has evolved over the course of the past few decades, with more and more institutions recognizing the historical bias of their collections and many working towards combating these biases to bridge knowledge gaps and provide more detailed and nuanced understanding of their materials. With the development of the internet, and the pressure for heritage institutions to turn towards more digital methods of dissemination of their collections, there has been fierce debate as to good practices towards implementing these digital means of access and dissemination. Collections which contain historically problematic materials, such as eugenics collections, can make digitization and digital methodologies particularly difficult. This thesis serves as a groundwork for the development of good institutional methodologies in terms of digitization of eugenics-related materials by comparing the available methodologies employed by four institutions holding materials which were particularly significant during the period of legally applied eugenics on their respective populations.

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This dissertation examines two daily newspapers’ representations of eugenics from the incipient racial biological investigation 1919 until 1958, and the State Institute for Racial Biology is reorganized. The dissertation also aims to examine whether there are any distinct turning points where the newspapers distance themselves from the ideas and the research of eugenics. The analysis material is based on newspaper articles from two national dailies, i.e., Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter. The theoretical framework and method are based on Fairclough’s discourse theory and analysis to observe and elucidate how eugenics is represented over a longer period of time. The conclusion of the dissertation is that the newspapers continuously designate racial biology as something unique and being the salvation from degeneration until Herman Lundborg resigns as head of the institute. After Gunnar Dahlberg took over the managerial position the activities at the Institute changed course and the research undertaken there became engaged in medical genetics and social medicine instead of racial biology. The main argument for the establishment of the institute was that it would provide protection for the Swedish race. The norms and attitudes were more about the science and somewhat about nationalism, while what we now call racism did not seem to be included at all. The discourses about racial biology that have arisen have been maintained in society through the newspapers, as the recipients have been continuously fed with praiseworthy and warning words. This fits with Foucault’s reasoning and theory which he clarifies the fact that discourses are conditioned by how society discusses about something that over time has been an influence on how people are classified or treated by the newspapers that maintains it.

At the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden scientists work to investigate landscape dynamics and their cumulative environmental effects. Historic flood maps are important sources of information when evaluating past floods and making comparison with more recent ones. There exist two maps documenting historic Elbe floods in Saxony in 1845 and 1890, and their contents have been analysed and compared with recent flood data of 2002. This paper will discuss both the specific characteristics of such unique historic maps and the problems of their incorporation into the GIS workflow, including the derivation of land use from the maps and its verification. Geodata overlay of various flood events allows statements to be made about the development of flood risk in spatially differentiated areas. This valuable geodata has been placed on the internet for access by the public, planners and researchers.:1. Introduction 2. Historic Flood Events 3. Maps of Historic Flood Events 4. Digital Processing of Historic Maps 5. Results and Conclusions of GIS Analysis 6. Interactive Map Presentation

Im Mai 2018 fand an der Hochschule für bildende Künste Dresden (HfBK) in Kooperation mit den drei sächsischen Völkerkundemuseen der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) – Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig, Völkerkundemuseum Herrnhut – der Workshop „Umgang. Menschliche Überreste in Museen und universitären Sammlungen“ statt. Dieser Band dokumentiert die im Rahmen des Workshops gehaltenen Beiträge.:Grußwort / Matthias Flügge Vorwort Stimmen zum Umgang Eine Stimme der Religion / Johann Hinrich Claussen Eine Stimme des Rechts / Adrian Schmidt-Recla Stimmen und Fragen der Ethik. Ein Überblick / Frank Oehmichen 1. Stimmen zur Herkunft „Unter Kannibalen“ – Afrikanische Initiativen zur Rückführung der Ahnen / Mnyaka Sururu Mboro und Christian Kopp Kritik aus der Sicht der Rückfordernden / Larissa Förster Fallbeispiel 1 Gebeine aus aller Welt für die Sammlung. Täter und Opfer / Birgit Scheps-Bretschneider Fallbeispiel 2 Präparate unter Verdacht. Künstleranatomie zwischen 1933-1945 an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden / Sandra Mühlenberend Fallbeispiel 3 Der Umgang mit historischen Präparaten am Anatomischen Institut Leipzig / Christine Feja 2. Stimmen zur Forschung Menschliche Überreste und ihre moderne Erforschung. Methoden und Beispiele / Stephanie Zesch und Wilfried Rosendahl Fallbeispiel 1 Eine Masterthesis zum Umgang mit menschlichen Überresten im Bereich der Bodendenkmalpflege, Konservierung und Restaurierung / Dorothea Habel und Alexandra Jeberien Fallbeispiel 2 Ein Forschungsvorhaben zur Herstellungstechnik und Konservierung historischer Gefäßinjektionspräparate / Jakob Fuchs 3. Stimmen aus den Museen Wer darf sprechen und wessen Stimme wird gehört? / Nanette Jacomijn Snoep Sensitive Heritage. Ethnographic Museums and Material/Immaterial Restitutions / Philipp Schorch Fallbeispiel 1 Vorläufige Ergebnisse interdisziplinärer Provenienzrecherche an tansanischen human remains der Insel Musila / Marius Kowalak Fallbeispiel 2 Sensible Objekte im Fokus. Präparate aus dem Anatomischen Labor des Deutschen Hygiene-Museums zwischen 1950 bis 1971 / Susanne Roeßiger 4. Stimmen aus den universitären Sammlungen Human turn? Zum Umgang mit Präparaten der universitären Sammlung der Charité im Berliner Medizinhistorischen Museum / Thomas Schnalke Fallbeispiel 1 Eminente Potentiale und ethische Probleme. Beispiele zum Umgang mit human remains aus den Sammlungen des MUT / Ernst Seidl Fallbeispiel 2 Die Nutzung der Anatomischen Sammlung der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden in Vergangenheit und Zukunft / Simone Fugger von dem Rech 5. Stimmen zur Erhaltung Die Erhaltung anatomischer Präparate. Ein Desiderat in Forschung und Lehre / Ivo Mohrmann 164 Die Verantwortung von Restaurator*innen beim Umgang mit menschlichen Überresten / Diana Gabler Fallbeispiel 1 Course on the topic of conservation of dry human tissue. At the School of Conservation, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts / Ion Meyer Fallbeispiel 2 Umgang mit fehlenden Körperteilen an historischen Skelettaufstellungen / Jakob Fuchs Autorenhinweise Impressum

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