Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 371.
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        Date: 2025-02-20 19:46:38+00:00
        From: Chiara Palladino <chiarapalladino1@gmail.com>
        Subject: Seminar announcement: Skulls, skin and names: The ethics of managing heritage collections data online (March 5)

Skulls, skin and names: The ethics of managing heritage collections data
online

Speaker: Rebecca Kahn (University of Vienna)
Date: Wednesday March 5, 2025. 15:00–16:15 GMT. Online only.

The management of sensitive cultural heritage materials is a highly
regulated aspect of museum practice, governed by institutional, national
and international best-practice guidelines. For digital collections,
however, there is far less guidance, and digital surrogates of sensitive
objects can be found easily all over the web. This discussion will
highlight the ethical challenges of managing the digitised images and
records of materials which, for ethical reasons, are no longer shown in
galleries. With a focus on data harvested from Europeana, we will discuss
the implications and challenges of managing a small number of highly
significant objects alongside the commitment to FAIR data practices,
scholarly openness and the preservation mandate that exists in most
cultural heritage institutions.

The Material Digital Humanities seminar is organised by Gabriel Bodard
(Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London, UK) and Chiara
Palladino (Department of Classics, Furman University, USA) in 2025. This
seminar series will present a range of discussions around materiality and
the research possibilities offered by digital methods and approaches.
Beyond just the value of digitization and computational research to the
study of material culture, we are especially interested in theoretical and
digital approaches to the question of materiality itself. We do not
restrict ourselves to any period of history or academic discipline, but
want to encourage interdisciplinarity and collaborative work, and the
valuable exchange of ideas enabled by cross-pollination of languages, areas
of history, geography and cultures.

All welcome.

This event is *free to attend,* but booking is required.

https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/skulls-skin-names-ethics-managing-
heritage-collections-data-online


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Chiara Palladino
Associate Professor of Classics
Chair, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
Furman University


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