“Restless dead bodies: the ethics of circulation of human remains”
2nd day – Thursday, July 6th, 2017 at 18:15
Room: Aud. Sedas Nunes (ICS-ULlisboa)
Hugo Cardoso*
Simon Fraser University
Susana Garcia
ISCSP-Ulisboa
Francisca Alves-Cardoso
CRIA/FCSH-NOVA
This will be a debate among biological anthropologists that came together in this meeting and are currently engaged in a discussion around the ethics and politics of circulation of human remains, collected to form osteological collections. The debate will take as point of departure the recent polemic that ensued in the press after the Lisbon municipality accepted a proposal for the transportation of human remains of Portuguese origin to a university in Canada, in order to compose a new reference collection for research in forensic and biological anthropology.
[chair] Cristiana Bastos
[org] Francesca De Luca, Ricardo Moreira
[moderation] Vítor Oliveira Jorge
* via Skype.