[Bilimsel Haber] Biohistorical Anthropology: DNA and Bones in Cultures of Remembrance,Conference – October, 8 to 9, 2010 – University of Zurich

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  Biohistorical Anthropology: DNA and Bones in Cultures of Remembrance


    Conference – October, 8 to 9, 2010 – University of Zurich

/The conference addresses the ‘genomic revolution’ in anthropology and 
history, and the new meanings human remains have acquired in diverse 
cultures of remembrance. The scientific projects concerned with the 
reconstruction of kinship and history on the basis of genetic 
technologies and DNA-sequences affect human populations globally. While 
such research may mean disempowerment of research subjects, genetic 
knowledge about group history and identity has also become part of 
political movements for recognition. Some groups even actively search 
the service of population genetics – a service that has on the 
individual level been commercialized in genetic ancestry tracing 
companies. /

/Like DNA, bones serve as ‘carriers of history’ in locally and 
historically specific cultures of remembrance. Human bones may be 
interpreted as the remains of national and/or ethnic founders and 
ancestors. Beginning in the 1980s, ‘on the eve of globalization’, the 
so-called reburial issue was in full swing and concerned officials in 
museums and other institutions in the US, Australia, and beyond. 
Neo-indigenous organizations, first-nation movements, and subaltern or 
marginalized groups around the globe are reclaiming ancestral bones to 
found a historical narrative and to claim rights of belonging. This 
brings to the fore the fact that the meaning of bones – as well as of 
DNA – is polyvalent in both western and non-western cultures; they are 
“things” with “social lives”./

/The conference encourages discussion about these topical issues and 
allows insights into their histories. Different disciplinary approaches 
and historical and geographical foci are brought together with the aim 
to gain insights into the complexities through which ‘DNA’ and bones 
become carriers of historical memory./


      Chair:

SNF-Professor Marianne Sommer (Hist. Department, University of Zurich) 
and Prof. Dr. Gesine Krüger (Hist. Department, University of Zurich)

top <http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010.html#top>


    Program: 


      Friday, October 8: DNA and Cultures of Remembrance

10.00 – 11.00 	Marianne Sommer and Gesine Krüger: Introduction
11.00 – 12.00 	Yulia Egorova (Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Durham 
University): * On DNA, Authenticity and Historical Memory 
<http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010/egorova.html> *
12.00 – 13.30 	/Lunch break/
13.30 – 15.30 	Alondra Nelson (Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, 
Columbia University): * Ground Work: Foundations of African Ancestry and 
the Social Life of DNA 
<http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010/nelson.html> *
Gísli Pálsson (Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Anthropology, 
University of Iceland): * Make no Bones about it: Human Variation in 
Iceland, Scandinavia, and the Arctic 
<http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010/palsson.html> *
15.30 – 16.00 	/Coffee break/
16.00 – 17.00 	David Hesse (PhD student, Scottish Centre for Diaspora 
Studies, University of Edinburgh): * To join a Clan: Expressing Scottish 
Ancestry and Affinity 
<http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010/hesse.html>*



      Saturday, October 9: Bones, Bodies, and Cultures of Remembrance

10.00 – 12.00 	Veronika Lipphardt (Max Planck Institute for the History 
of Science): * Europids: A European History Extracted from Bones, 
Bodies, and DNA 
<http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010/lipphardt.html> *
Oliver Hochadel (Centre d'Estudis d'Història de la Ciència, Universitat 
Autònoma de Barcelona, and Visiting Scholar, University of Zurich): * 
The Making of a Magic Mountain: The Fossils of Atapuerca and the New 
Beginning of Spanish History 
<http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010/hochadel.html> *
12.00 – 13.30 	/Lunch break/
13.30 – 15.30 	Joost Fontein (Lecturer, Dept. of Social Anthropology, 
University of Edinburgh): * Between Tortured Bodies and Resurfacing 
Bones: The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 
<http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010/fontein.html> *
Ciraj Rassool (Associate Professor, Dept. of History, University of the 
Western Cape): *Bone Memory: Human Remains, Heritage and Transitional 
Justice in South Africa* 
<http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010/rassool.html>
15.30 – 16.00 	/Coffee break/
16.00 – 17.00 	General Discussion


If you wish to attend the conference, please contact: 
nicolodi at fsw.uzh.ch <mailto:nicolodi at fsw.uzh.ch>

Programm 
<http://www.phylogenetic-memory.uzh.ch/conference2010/Konferenz_BioHistAnthro.pdf> 
(381.3KB, pdf)

web: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=176714



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