Join us on Thursday, October 10^th at 4:15 PM for a special talk by guest lecturer Sarah Tarlow – 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. Her 2023 memoir 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, 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 4:15-5:30 PM.  To access the lecture virtually, use the zoom link here. To RSVP in-person, use the link here.