Lecture

Germany’s Colonial Entanglements in the Pacific

A Lecture by Anja Schwarz

Daniel Boyd: RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION), installation view, Gropius Bau (2023) © Gropius Bau, photo: Luca Girardini

In her lecture, Anja Schwarz will talk about colonies of Germany in the Pacific and the role of German-speaking agents within the settler colonies in Australia.

Anja Schwarz is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam. Her research focuses on cultures of colonial memory, Pacific navigation practices and Australian settler colonialism. As part of a German-Australian team, she is currently researching the collections of Prussian naturalists kept in Berlin institutions. These naturalists were active in the Australian colonies in the mid-nineteenth century.