Forwarded message from Zoe Crossland <[log in to unmask]>:

Dear all,

Please find below information about a workshop to be held at Cambridge on 
the 4th November, looking at the social production of the body in contexts 
of archaeological exhumation. Please drop me a line if you are interested 
in attending. More information can be found under Events/News on the 
website of the Leverhulme Research Project ‘Changing Beliefs of the Human 
Body’.

Best wishes,

Zoe

Dr. Zoë Crossland
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Rm. 452 Schermerhorn Extension
Columbia University
1200 Amsterdam Ave. & W 119th St., MC: 5523 
New York, NY 10027-7003 U.S.A
Tel: (212) 854-7465
Fax: (212) 854-7347

Disturbing Bodies:– the social relations of exhumation

Saturday 4th November 2006

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge

This workshop explores the ways in which the materiality of the corpse is 
constituted through the performative and tactile acts of exhumation, 
display, and analysis. Archaeological exhumation may be understood as a 
commemorative practice which intersects with other forms of commemoration, 
with consequent implications for the individual identity and agency of the 
dead. As such, the routines of excavation reconstitute memory in specific 
ways, often incommensurate with the experiences of other participants. 
Speakers will explore the ways in which social relationships and 
experiences of grief are negotiated through the re-appearance of the dead 
body, drawing on diverse examples from a range of contexts to show how, in 
the act of exhumation, embodied understandings of what it is to be human 
are made and unmade.


Speakers:

Piotr Bienkowski (Manchester Museum, University of Manchester). 
‘Exhuming the Integrated Body: Conflicting World-views and the 
Archaeological Discourse.’

Paul Sant Cassia (Department of Social Anthropology, University of 
Durham). 
‘The Triple Recognition of Exhumation: The Recognizer, the Recognized, and 
the Recognized-to. Scenes from an uncompleted drama of Cyprus exhumations.’

Zoë Crossland (Department of Anthropology, Columbia University). 
‘Revelation and Detection: Discourses of Bodies and Evidence in 
Archaeology and Forensic Science.’

Mel Giles (Department of Archaeology, University of Manchester). 
‘Bog Bodies: Representing the Dead.’

Layla Renshaw (Department of Archaeology, Kingston University).
‘The Life Cycle of Human Remains from the Spanish Civil War – Situating 
Exhumation Within the Time Spans of Private and Public Mourning.’ 

Maja Petrovic-Steger (Department of Social Anthropology, University of 
Cambridge).
‘Measuring Fragmentality - Human Remains in Postconflict Serbia and 
Tasmania.’

Victoria Sanford (Department of Anthropology, CUNY). 
‘Body of Evidence: Impunity and Inequality in the Reconstruction of Life 
and Death.’

Discussants:
Maryon McDonald (Department of Social Anthropology, University of 
Cambridge).
Tim Thompson (Unit of Human Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, University 
of Dundee).

Organised by Zoe Crossland as part of the
Leverhulme Changing Beliefs of the Human Body Research Programme

Full schedule available at http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/lrp/intro.html

To register please contact Dusan Boric at [log in to unmask]