Dr Tiffany Jenkins
writer and broadcaster; author, Keeping Their Marbles: how treasures of the past ended up in museums and why they should stay there

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.

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Saturday 22 October, 10.00 Conservatory
Cultural appropriation: homage or theft?

Saturday 22 October, 16.00 Pit Theatre
Bodily autonomy: my body, my choice?

Sunday 23 October, 17.30 Frobisher Auditorium 2
Decolonising education: is the curriculum 'too white'?