Seminars

Death

Year Founded 1971

Seminar # 507

StatusActive

This interdisciplinary seminar critically engages with aspects of death, dying, disposal and grief. Presentations and discussions explore topics from both academic and clinical perspectives in areas as diverse as medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, religion, law, politics, architecture, and the media. In recent years the seminar has focused on contemporary developments in technology, culture and society. Attendance is maintained at a level that provides members with ample opportunity for active participation.

Chair/s

Karla Rothstein

kmsr16@columbia.edu

Christina Staudt

christinastaudt@gmail.com

Rapporteur/s

Nikita Shepard

ns3307@columbia.edu

External Website

Death

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09
Oct

October 9, 20247:15 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Grave Matters: Rethinking America’s Urban Cemeteries for the 21st Century

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Lisa W. Alpert, The Green-Wood Cemetery

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Is it possible that America’s “Rural Cemetery Movement” was way ahead of its time? Exploring the challenges and opportunities of a 186-year-old cemetery in New York City.

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08
May

May 8, 20247:15 pm - 9:00 pm

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Aesthetics: Expanding Life Through/Beyond “Life’s Ending”

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Kei Okada,

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This presentation introduces aesthetics as a missing aspect in end-of-life care. Finding beauty (vs. doing right) is an attribute of human life that offers value and meaning -- a quality that even fulfills life. Kei Okada examines the relational and transformative nature of our sense of time and symbolic associations as important context and "media" in end-of-life communication; and explores holistically how we may expand our body-mind-spirit senses with curiosity to notice, attend, and encourage new connections in meaning-making and experiential knowledge, in order to reconcile reason with intuition, health with illness, gain with loss, joy with grief, ending with beginning, life with death, becoming whole.

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10
Apr

April 10, 20247:15 pm - 9:00 pm

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The Torments of Despair Masquerading as Hope: Anticipating Medical Aid in Dying and Discovering Hope, Differently

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Ashley Moyse, Columbia University Medical Center

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Mar

March 20, 20247:15 pm - 9:00 pm

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February 14, 202412:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Dec

December 13, 20237:15 pm - 9:00 pm

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08
Nov

November 8, 20237:15 pm - 9:00 pm

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11
Oct

October 11, 20237:15 pm - 9:00 pm

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