The Anatomy of Identity. A life of 7? | Sue Black | TEDxUniversityofDundee скачать в хорошем качестве

The Anatomy of Identity. A life of 7? | Sue Black | TEDxUniversityofDundee

Identity is explored from the perspectives of your close relatives and of authority. What is a fool-proof form of identity which is immune to fraud? Sue covers this matter and goes even further in exploring the caveats of the somatic form of the body bearing testimony to our actions, in line with Theseus' paradox. However, coming up with the ultimate infallible biometric is not really the issue, as you will find out in this fascinating talk. Professor Sue Black is Director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification in Dundee, and Deputy Principal. She is a forensic anthropologist and an anatomist, founder and past President of the British Association for Human Identification, and advisor to the Home Office and Interpol on issues pertaining to forensic anthropology in disaster victim identification (DVI). She was awarded an OBE in 2001 for her services to forensic anthropology in Kosovo, the Lucy Mair medal for humanitarian services, a police commendation for DVI training in 2008, Hon Prof of Anatomy for the Royal Scottish Academy in 2014 and the Fletcher of Saltoun award for her contribution to Scottish culture also in 2014. She was awarded both the Brian Cox and the Stephen Fry awards for public engagement with research and in 2013 her Centre was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. Her research was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education research project of the year. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx