Abstract

Book your place for the talk ‘Bringing the Ancestors Home: how Cambridge collections can support repatriation using osteobiographies’ where you’ll have the opportunity to hear from members of the Duckworth Laboratory and Indigenous communities from Australia and Papua New Guinea about collaborative research and current issues around collections and repatriation.

The panel includes:

Enid Tom – Kaurareg Elder and Director of Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation

Rodney Carter – Dja Dja Wurrung Group Chief Executive Officer

John Clarke – General Manager Cultural Landscapes, Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation

Shawnee Gorringe – Operations Administrator, Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC

Jason Kariwiga – PhD Candidate, University of Queensland, researcher from Papua New Guinea

Michael Westaway – ARC Future Fellow, University of Queensland

This talk is part of a project funded by the Collections, Connections, Communities Strategic Research Initiative and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

It will take place on Thursday 19 September 2024, 4.30-6pm, in the Henry Wellcome Building Seminar Room.

The event will consist of a talk followed by a Q&A session.

Please book your ticket on Eventbrite by 10 September 2024.

Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bringing-the-ancestors-home-tickets-949863175327

If you are unable to attend the event in-person, you can join an online webinar by clicking the link below: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87451163859