The Living Skeleton: What It Means to Be Embodied

Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together – at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.

This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about.

Event Schedule:

6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open

7pm Lecuture Starts

7.45pm Q&A

8pm Talk Concludes

8.30pm Event Closes.

*Please arrive close to 6.30pm

A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night – pay as you go.

Your Topic:

The Living Skeleton: What It Means to Be Embodied

But what exactly is embodiment? And what does it mean to think of our skeletons as embodied? Many of us will only ever think of our skeletons as static and inorganic. But we don’t just have skeletons inside of us, we are our skeletons. This embodied perspective of our bones opens significant new pathways in osteological, medical, and educational research, reimagining the skeleton as both alive and an active partner in human movement. Dr Rosen invites you to come and meet the bones that make you you, and explore the incredible world of the living human skeleton.

Your Speaker:

Dr Sarah M Rosen is a human osteologist and award-nominated university lecturer who researches the relationships between our bones and our lived experiences. She has held Assistant Professorships at Durham University and Seton Hall University, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Her work on forensic anthropology, state violence, and embodied teaching has been published by University of Toronto Press, Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Teaching Anthropology, and the Peace Review. In 2025, she moved to Australia and founded The Brains and Bones Project, an educational outreach program that uses embodied teaching to introduce school children to human evolution research.