[Sci-tech-public] Join Us Tomorrow for a Special Talk by Professor and Archeologist Sarah Tarlow (Thursday October 10)

[Willamina Hadley]

Good Afternoon,

This is a reminder to join the Program in Science, Technology, and Society tomorrow, October 10th at 4:15 PM for a special talk by guest lecturer Sarah Tarlow on Radical Honesty: Life Writing, Academic Writing and Living Dangerously.

What makes a powerful memoir? While telling a great story certainly helps, Sarah Tarlow will argue what distinguishes the best life writing is radical honesty. Furthermore, the principles of radical honesty applied back to our academic writing and, indeed, to our other endeavors, result in more innovative, exciting, critical, and transformative work. She will discuss and read from her own memoir, The Archaeology of Loss, which combines her expertise as an archaeologist specializing in the archaeology of death and burial, with the personal experience of being a long-term care-taker for her ill husband.

Sarah Tarlow is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK. She has published more than 10 academic books on topics like the archaeology of death, historical archaeology in Britain and Ireland, the archaeology of the body, and archaeological ethics. In 2023, her memoir The Archaeology of Loss received the Royal Anthropological Institute's Public Anthropology award.

Come and listen to an unwavering exploration of rarely discussed, but ever-important topics like caregiving, grief, and the inextricable tie between how we die and how we live. This event will be held at The Nexus in Hayden Library (14S-130), from 4:15-5:45 PM. If you'd like to attend in-person, please RSVP here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Zz6w073qU43vPH2i0F_F5LJcyMBP09VmcTC2gNMsmgI/edit>. To access the lecture virtually, you can use the zoom link here<https://mit.zoom.us/j/93435903739>.

Please see the attached invitation for more details. We hope to see you there!

Thank you,
Program in Science, Technology, and Society




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