2023 Black History Month Event: Respecting the Remains of Those Who Were Enslaved
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.
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 Medical Library
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
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
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