Public Humanities Program: Project Focus for 2019-2021: In Their Presence: Debates on the Dignity, Display, and Ownership of Human Remains

In the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years, with the support of a Tufts Collaborates Seed Grant Program/Tufts Springboard, The Diversity Fund, and the World Peace Foundation, Program director Diane O’Donoghue with Bridget Conley, Associate Professor for Research and Research Director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, organized a series of five webinar panels that brought together leading international voices in areas of forensic ethics to address the materiality of post-life. You can watch the video recording of the first session ("De-colonizing 'objects'" with Ciraj Rassool and Vernelda Grant), the second session (“Recovery and reclamation" with Sarah Wagner and Adam Rosenblatt), and the third session (“The 'life' of museum objects" with Ingrid Neuman, Steven Lubar, and Zuzanna Dziuban ), the fourth session (“Mourning remains" with Professors Isaias Rojas-Perez and Julia Viebach), and the fifth and final session (“Political economies, ethics, and practices of displaying human remains" with Stephenie Young, Elisabeth Anstett, and Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman).

In Their Presence Flyers

• Session One: "De-colonizing 'objects'"
• Session Two: "Recovery and reclamation"
• Session Three: "The 'life' of museum objects"
• Session Four: "Mourning remains"
• Session Five: "Political economies, ethics, and practices of displaying human remains"