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Lunch Seminar 'Artistic Research on Human Remains'
Human remains collected in colonial contexts and preserved in anthropology museums are now at the center of debates about restitution, balancing the urgency of diplomatic recognition of colonial debt with the slow legal process of establishing provenance and ownership. Artists have long engaged with these sensitive collections—from 17th–19th-century illustrations, photographs, and body casts to 20th- and 21st-century works that explore identity and poetic transformation of the remains, highlighting gaps, ambiguities, and ethical questions. Drawing on these artistic interventions, the research reveals a new relationship between art and science in representing collections suspended between life and death.
Date:
8 October 2025, 12:00
Venue:
Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Speaker:
Frédéric Keck (Laboratory of Social Anthropology (CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS))
Organising department:
Maison Française d'Oxford
Organiser contact email address:
communications@mfo.ac.uk
Part of:
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking email:
communications@mfo.ac.uk
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Anne-Sophie Gabillas
