Dr Tiffany Jenkins

Tiffany is an author, writer, and broadcaster. Her book Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There was published by OUP 2016 to great critical acclaim. She is also the author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority (Routledge 2011). She writes cultural comment regularly for the broadsheet press, and she was the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme Beauty and the Brain, which explored what science can tell us about art, and has written and will present A Narrative History of Secrecy, which will be broadcast on Radio 4 in autumn 2016.

Related Sessions
Friday 4 October 2013, 7.30pm Hellenic American Union, Massalias 22, 10680, Athens, Greece
Saturday 19 October 2013, 12.15pm Frobisher Auditorium 2
Saturday 19 October 2013, 3.30pm Frobisher Auditorium 2
Sunday 20 October 2013, 3.30pm Garden Room
Sunday 20 October 2013, 5.15pm Garden Room
Tuesday 19 November 2013, 6.00pm Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB

Publications

Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of Antiquity Ended Up in Museums – And Why They Should Stay There. (OUP 2016)
Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building (Routledge, 2014)
Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: the crisis of cultural authority (Routledge, 2010)

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