Creative Mornings at the Václav Havel Library: Identity
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: March 27, 2020, 09:00 – 10:00
The Creative Mornings project takes place at many cities throughout the world and offers open encounters with noteworthy figures. Its aim is to inspire, connect people from different fields and to make interesting views and opinions from all kinds of areas accessible. The last Friday of every month brings inspiring orators, breakfast in the company of creative people and a visit to a notable venue in Prague. The theme of the March meeting is IDENTITY, from the perspectives of genetics and anthropology, and the guest will be forensic geneticist Halina Šimková.
Halina Šimková lectures in forensic genetics at Charles University’s Faculty of Science, the University of Chemistry and Technology and Pardubice University but is just as happy introducing her field to non-specialists. She is a graduate of anthropology and human genetics at the Faculty of Science and also study pharmacy at Charles University as well as animation at FAMU. She has performed in theatre and graduated in the set design branch toys, masks and puppets. She worked at the DNA analysis branch of Prague’s Institute of Crime Studies. In 2005 she served with an Interpol unit in Thailand identifying tsunami victims. She co-founded the Czechoslovak Society for Forensic Genetics, of which she has been deputy chairwoman since 2008.