All alumni and friends are warmly invited to the 2025 Girton College Annual Lawrence Room Talk at 2pm in the Stanley Library on Saturday 27 September 2025.
This talk will focus on how archaeologists analyse human remains to learn about the lifeways of past people. What stories do our bones hold? What are the sensitive issues around handling the dead for scientific analyses and museum display? Osteoarchaeologist and curator, Dr Trish Biers will lead us through some of the ways in which scholars and practitioners work with the dead and share case studies from the field.
Dr Trish Biers is the Curatorial Manager of the Duckworth Collection (biological anthropology) in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include curation and care of human remains, ethics and the dead, ancient disease, memento mori art and catacombs, and museum studies focusing on displaying death, body modification, and repatriation. She has excavated and curated human remains from all over the world and recently co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage and Death.
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