Countway Library is pleased to share that the Center for the History of Medicine’s Director, Scott Podolsky, and Dominic Hall, Curator, Warren Anatomical Museum collection, will be speaking as part of the upcoming Thursday, February 9th virtual event, Respecting the Remains of Those Who Were Enslaved: Reflections on the Report of the Harvard Steering Committee on Human Remains in University Museum Collections. Details are below.
February 9, 2023 | 6 - 7:30 p.m. ET | Live on Zoom | Register Here [link expired]
Last fall, the Harvard Steering Committee on Human Remains in University Museum Collections issued a report regarding the procurement, provenance, preservation, and disposition of human remains in Harvard museums and collections, including those of at least 19 individuals who were or who may have been enslaved.
In celebration of Black History Month, Professor Evelynn Hammonds, the committee chair, will lead a seminar discussion among several of the committee members about the committee, its deliberations, and its conclusions.
This seminar is hosted by the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, the Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Partnership, and the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University.
Speakers
Committee Chair
Evelynn M. Hammonds, BEE, SM, PhD, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Professor of African & African American Studies, and Professor in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Committee Members
Scott Harris Podolsky, MD, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; Director, Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Longwood Campus; Primary Care Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Philip J. Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University
Dominic W. Hall, MA, ALM, Curator, Warren Anatomical Museum, Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Longwood Campus
Jane Pickering, MA, MS, William & Muriel Seabury Howells Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Moderator
Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics; Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine; Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics), Harvard Medical School