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Behind the Headlines | Returning Remains: Context, Consent, and Colonialism
Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 7 – 8pmAn online discussion with Dr Ciaran O'Neill (TCD), Peggy King Jorde, Prof Samuel Redman (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Evi Numen (TCD), and Dr Olof Ljungström (Karolinska Institutet) organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute as part of the Behind the Headlines Series.
Global conversations centred on custodianship and care of historic human remains provide the focus for the Trinity Long Room Hub’s latest Behind the Headlines discussion, which highlights the complexities and tensions surrounding the retention or reburial of human remains. As many international news sites have recently reported, Trinity is currently working with inhabitants of Inishbofin Island to address the potential return of remains taken from the island in 1890 and stored for more than a century on campus. We hope to situate this case in a broader philosophical, moral, and cultural context, and to learn from four experts who will reflect on their own experience of negotiating questions of repatriation in the museum and university sectors.
Speakers:
Peggy King Jorde is a cultural projects consultant combining more than 30 years of experience in architecture and historic preservation projects in New York City and beyond. King Jorde served under three NYC mayors, providing comprehensive oversight of all capital construction projects specific to New York’s cultural landmarks, public art, and art museums. King Jorde took the lead in advocating and shepherding the creation of New York’s African Burial Ground Memorial and Interpretive Centre. She has recently consulted on the preservation of the African burial ground discovered on Saint Helena Islan and featured in the recent documentary The Story of Bones (2022) .
Professor Samuel J Redman is Professor of History and Director of Public History Program at University of Massachussetts (Amherst). His first book, Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, was published by Harvard University Press in 2016. Bone Rooms was selected as a Choice Top-25 Outstanding Academic Title, Nature Top-20 book of 2016, and Smithsonian Top History Book of 2016. His second book, Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard University Press 2021) explores the history and legacy of salvage anthropology.
Evi Numen is the Curator of the Old Anatomy Museum, Trinity College Dublin, and previously held the position of Exhibitions Manager & Designer at the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia from 2009 to 2016.
Dr Olof Ljungström is a Docent (reader) in the history of science and ideas, employed by the Karolinska Institutet since 2005, to write the history of modern medical research, and to document and write the history of the institute along with it. In 2010 he published Ämnessprängarna: Karolinska Institutet och Rockefeller Foundation 1930-1945 (The Discipline Busters, under translation into English), a monograph study of a number of actors in some key decades in the history of the Karolinska's development into an internationally recognised research environment.
This panel will be chaired by Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Associate Professor in the School of Histories and Humanities.
Please register here.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/behind-...-consent-and-colonialism-tickets-537339194997
The Trinity Long Room Hub’s ‘Behind the Headlines’ discussion series offers background and expert analyses of current issues, drawing on the long-term perspectives of Arts & Humanities research. It aims to provide a forum that deepens understanding, combats simplification, and creates space for informed and respectful public discourse. The Trinity Long Room Hub Behind the Headlines series is supported by the John Pollard Foundation.
Please indicate if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: [email protected]
Campus Location: Online
Accessibility: N/A
Room: Online
Event Category: Lectures and Seminars
Type of Event: One-time event
Audience: Researchers, Postgrad, Faculty & Staff, Public
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Christina Hamilton
Contact Email: [email protected]
More info: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/behind-...-consent-and-colonialism-tickets-537339194997
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/event.php?eventid=165025198