November 11, 2010
Lecture in Bristol – Human Remains: objects to study or ancestors to bury?
Tiffany Jenkins (who was also one of the organisers of this event) is giving a talk this evening at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery about the ethical issues surrounding human remains in museums.
From:
Bristol City Council
Human Remains: objects to study or ancestors to bury?
Thursday 11November 2010 7.30 –9pm
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Speaker: Dr Tiffany JenkinsFULLY BOOKED
Cultural sociologist Dr Tiffany Jenkins explores the ethical questions surrounding museums and the holding and display of human remains. What is respectful treatment? How should they be displayed? Should human remains be repatriated?
Dr Tiffany Jenkins is arts and society director of the Institute of Ideas. Her book ‘Contesting Human Remains: Museums and the Crisis of Cultural Authority’ is out Autumn 2010.
- Whose Past? Debate on repatriation of artefacts and reburial of human remains : March 20, 2012
- The Parthenon Sculptures & the Battle of Ideas – who owns culture : October 28, 2010
- Are ideological reasons stopping some artefacts from being displayed in museums : October 25, 2011
- Glasgow Museums to return Aboriginal artefacts to Australia : January 15, 2011
- The repatriation of human remains from Britain’s museums : August 17, 2009
- Torres Strait islanders reclaim their ancestral bones : March 23, 2012
- A bone to pick with museums : January 17, 2005
- Aboriginal artefacts to remain in Brighton : February 9, 2009