Dear All, The next talk in the HPS Research Seminar Series will presented by:
RICARDO ROQUE (University of Sydney and Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon) Race and bone inscriptions in ethnic craniology In this presentation Ricardo will discuss the significance of ethno-geographical identities, theories, and classifications that appear in the form of bone inscriptions. He will draw on the history of ethnic craniology in nineteenth-century Europe to explore how human skulls could be a place for the inscription of anthropological thought, a privileged location for the writing of racial conceptions. A hallmark of nineteenth-century racial science was the special value accorded to human crania as primary evidence in race classification. Accordingly, thousands of human skulls from across the world were collected, shipped, and stored in museums with a view to anthropological study. Many museum skulls bear names of races and names of places, along with other inscriptions. Why race and place were inscribed in skulls and to what effect these inscriptions came into emergence in the science of race is the object of this paper. WHEN: MONDAY 12TH AUGUST 2013 6PM WHERE: SCIENCE MEETING ROOM 450, 4TH FLOOR CARSLAW BUILDING, CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS (THERE WILL BE NO PRESENTATION ON MONDAY 5TH AUGUST) Hope you can make it Regards Debbie Castle Administration Officer Unit for History and Philosophy of Science Room 441, Carslaw Building F07| THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NSW 2006 T: + 61 2 9351 4226 E: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY 9AM TO 4.30PM www.sydney.edu.au/science/hps
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