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The Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria is a group that promotes the study of archaeology, anthropology, ethno-archaeology and ethno-history in both Australia and further abroad. Lectures, from a range of talented presenters, are held every third Thursday of the month at 6:30pm at the The Kathleen Syme Library & Community Centre 251 Faraday St, Carlton. Sign up with Eventbrite and well know youre coming. **Online Lecture**: Thursday 17th of June, 2021, @ 6.30pm Getting a Head at All Costs: Tracking and Exposing Online Trafficking in Human Remains within its Socio-Cultural Context This presentation summarizes ongoing research occurring within the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded The Bone Trade Project (https://bonetrade.github.io/). In general, this project is beginning to identify and map the online human remains trade across various social media and e-commerce platforms. As a summary presentation, I will highlight key points of methods from the digital humanities and machine learning used to investigate how this collecting community functions, what we can remotely know of their complex morals and ethics, how they negotiate a complex legal landscape, and from which populations the human remains trafficked possibly originate. The examples given will be discussed in the context of how and why counteracting the human remains trade is relevant to the preservation of global cultural heritage, questions of possible medico-legal import, and the concerns of descent communities. Dr. Damien Huffer was most recently a postdoctoral fellow (2017 2019) within the Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology & Classical Studies, Stockholm University. From 2014 2016, he held the Stable Isotope Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonians Museum Conservation Institute/Division of Anthropology, and he received his PhD in Osteoarchaeology in 2013 from the ANU. As a co-founder of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online and an interdisciplinary antiquities trade ...