Old Bodies as Ourselves. Approaches to Ancient Human Remains in the 20th and 21st Centuries - a Seminar Cycle II

Handling skeletons 

Ildikó Pap and  György Pálfi: Regulations on how to deal with  human bones in Hungary and Europe. 

Maxim Timofeev, The Dead and Human Rights Law: How the Dead Speak Through the Living

In this seminar the debate on how to handle ancient human bones and the issue of respect for human beings will be discussed confronting the point of view of biological anthropologists and legal experts.

György Pálfi: is professor of biological anthropology and paleopathology at the University of Szeged. He has worked in France and published many essays in international journals and volumes, among which, with I. Pap, Hungary, in The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation: An International Guide to Laws and Practice in the Excavation and Treatment of Archaeological Human Remains, ed. by  Marquez-Grant  and Fibiger, New York, 2011.

Ildikó Pap: is director of the Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum. She directed several national and international projects on paleopathology and on Mummies’ investigation. Among her most important publications: with G. Pálfi and A. Marcsik, Hungary, in: The Global History of Paleopathology. Pioneers and Prospects. ed by Buikstra and  Roberts, Oxford University Press, 2012.  

Maxim Timofeev: is S.J.D. Student at Legal Studies Department, CEU. He has a Russian postgraduate academic degree of Legal Science and a 7-year experience in teaching constitutional law in Russia. His research interest is comparative constitutional and international human rights law.