The Hunterian

Every Wednesday from 28 September - 14 December 2016
1.00pm
Hunterian Art Gallery
Admission free

A special series of lunchtime talks inspired by our Skeletons: Our Buried Bones exhibition. 

28 September 2016 
Pox and Prejudice? The emotional history of syphilis
Mona O’Brien, Hunterian Associate

5 October 2016 
Radiocarbon Dating
Dr Philippa Ascough, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

12 October 2016 
Isotopes: Reconstructing life histories through analytical science
Dr Philippa Ascough, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

19 October 2016 
Bones, isotopes and ice cores, and the long road to unleaded fuel
Dr Beverly Bergman, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow

26 October 2016 
Make or Break: Visualising bone biology, development and disease
Hussain Jaffery, Hunterian Associate

2 November 2016 
Neolithic Skeleton from Balevullin, Tiree: A complex and controversial case!
Dr Stuart McDonald, School of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow

9 November 2016 
Medieval Skeleton from Horsecross, Perth: A murdered teenager?
Dr Stuart McDonald, School of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow

16 November 2016
No talk this week

23 November 2016 
No talk this week

30 November 2016 
Pictish Burial: Pagan or Christian?
Dr Adrián Maldonado, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow

7 December 2016 
Chronological Chromosomes: Uncovering DNA through time
Frances Osis, Hunterian MUSE

14 December 2016 
Morbid Curiosities: The Ethics of Displaying Human Remains
Taryn Gouck, Archaeology/Celtic Civilizations student, University of Glasgow

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First published: 14 September 2016