The Women Scholars’ Speaker Series (WSSS) will tackle an especially prominent, albeit difficult, theme in 2021-2022, examining issues related to death throughout a four-part virtual series.
The series of online panels and presentations will engage participants with the latest research around pressing and multifaceted topics including discrimination, equity, death and labour.
The opening event is Tuesday, October 19, 2021, when a panel presents, Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Death, Dying & Grief, inviting researchers, artists and educators to discuss various topics including memorialization, the materiality of death, ecological approaches to death and dying, death in popular culture and performance.
“Bringing together a multitude of insights and perspectives on death, dying and grief feels all the more urgent in this time of COVID-19,” says Mia van Leeuwen (Faculty of Fine Arts, drama), WSSS co-Chair and one the presenters, along with Rebecca Many Grey Horses (Educator, MA in Jurisprudence in Indian Law) and Dr. Jennifer Otto (Department of Religious Studies).
In November, Dr. Tara Mehrabi of Karlstad University, Sweden, will present Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab.
Two more talks follow in the new year, including a January presentation, Death in the Age of Rationality: Playing with Death in Popular Amusement, and a concluding talk in March, Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Death, Dying and Grief: Closing Panel.
The Women Scholars’ Speaker Series was initiated in 2002 and is dedicated to engaging the community with female scholars and their exceptional contributions to academic research.
For more about the Women Scholars’ Speaker Series, visit the web page.
Women Scholars’ Speaker Series Event Lineup 2021-2022
Tuesday October 19, 2021
7 to 8:30 p.m. (via Zoom)
https://uleth.zoom.us/j/92722112562
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Death, Dying & Grief: Opening Panel
Rebecca Many Grey Horses
Dr. Jennifer Otto
Mia van Leeuwen
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
12:15 to 1:15 p.m. (via Zoom)
https://uleth.zoom.us/j/91338149041
Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab
Dr. Tara Mehrabi, Karlstad University, Sweden
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
6 to 7:30 p.m. (via Zoom)
https://uleth.zoom.us/j/97307656022
Death in the Age of Rationality: Playing with Death in Popular Amusement
Joanna Ebenstein, Creative Director of Morbid Anatomy
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
6 to 7:30 p.m. (via Zoom)
https://uleth.zoom.us/s/95751335357
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Death, Dying and Grief: Closing Panel
Barbara J. King
AGLENNCO, MFA