Behind the Headlines | Returning Remains: Context, Consent, and Colonialism

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Feb 23, 2023 · 1h 20m

Recorded February 21, 2023 Global conversations centred on custodianship and care of historic human remains provide the focus for the Trinity Long Room Hub’s latest Behind the Headlines discussion, which highlights the complexities and tensions surrounding the retention or reburial of human remains. As many international news sites have recently reported, Trinity College Dublin is currently working with inhabitants of Inishbofin Island to address the potential return of remains taken from the island in 1890 and stored for more than a century on campus. In this panel chaired by Dr Ciaran…