Calendar  /  Forum on Afterlives


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Past Events

Headshot of author Colson Whitehead standing in front of trees
September 27, 2017 / 5:00 pm
Ghosts, Zombies, and the Afterlives of Slavery
Colson Whitehead
Salamishah Tillet
Film still from SAFSTOR
October 4, 2017 / 7:00 pm
Documenting Nuclear Afterlives
Adam Diller
Fathima Nizaruddin
Thorsten Trimpop
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Film still from The Darkside. Man sits in front of campfire outdoors.
October 8, 2017 / 2:00 pm
The Darkside
Illustration from Robert Blair's The Grave, a soul hovers over a dead body
October 11, 2017 / 5:00 pm
The Psychology of Soul and Afterlife
Gordon Bermant
Paul Rozin
Scholar Edith Hall posing in front of a dark photo backdrop
October 18, 2017 / 5:00 pm
The Ancient Greeks and the Future of the Human Race
Edith Hall
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Statue of a woman from reformation era Europe with part of the face missing
October 25, 2017 / 12:00 pm
The Legacy of the Reformation after 500 Years
Carlos Eire
Scholar Alma Gotlieb in a white beret standing in front of buildings
October 25, 2017 / 5:00 pm
The Afterlives of Babies: A View from West Africa
Alma Gottlieb
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Jan Werner Mueller standing in front of a white background
November 8, 2017 / 5:00 pm
Democracy After Populism
Jan-Werner Mueller
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Still from Forever Chinatown, a shot of a doll house designed to look like a Chinese household in 1940s United States
November 12, 2017 / 2:00 pm
Forever, Chinatown
Scholar N. Katherine Hayles sitting on a couch
November 15, 2017 / 5:00 pm
Why We Are (Still) Posthuman
N. Katherine Hayles
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Film still from The Venice Syndrome image of an antiquated, domed building with a cruise ship behind it
January 14, 2018 / 2:00 pm
The Venice Syndrome
Book cover of A Body Undone
January 25, 2018 / 5:00 pm
A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain
Christina Crosby
Janet Jakobsen
The Blood of Jesus Movie poster with an illustration of a cross, an angel, and a devil. Black text on yellow background reads "The Blood of Jesus"
January 31, 2018 / 7:00 pm
The Blood of Jesus
Beethoven's sketches of musical notation on lined paper
February 4, 2018 / 3:00 pm
Beethoven's Opus 131
Daedalus Quartet
Poster of Body and Soul with image of actor Paul Robeson. Red text on Yellow background reads Introducing Paul Robeson in Oscar Micheaux's Production of Body and Soul
February 7, 2018 / 7:00 pm
Body and Soul
Film still from Sonia's Dream. Sonia Mamani, an Aymara chef standing in front of a chalkboard filled with phrases in Espanol.
February 11, 2018 / 2:00 pm
Sonia's Dream
Movie Poster for film Borderline. Photo-collage of actors in the film. Yellow text reads Borderline
February 14, 2018 / 7:00 pm
Borderline
Block of ice melting on dirt
February 16, 2018 / 9:00 am
After Matter: Rupture, Persistence, Survival
Poster for film Watermelon Woman
February 21, 2018 / 7:00 pm
The Watermelon Woman
portrait of scholar Benjamin Wurgaft sitting on a tree
February 28, 2018 / 5:00 pm
Cultured Meat and Three Futures for Flesh
Benjamin Wurgaft
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Film still from Have you seen the Arana?
March 11, 2018 / 2:00 pm
Have You Seen the Arana?
Illustration of a gravestone with text that reads Pushing Daisies
March 16, 2018 / 9:00 am
Pushing Daisies
black and white portrait of writer Edwidge Dandicat
March 16, 2018 / 5:30 pm
Death, Writing, Race, and Freedom
Edwidge Danticat
poster for event Story Slam Rebirths, Returns, and Comebacks
March 27, 2018 / 7:00 pm
Rebirths, Returns, and Comebacks
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portrait of writer Lydia Millet standing in front of a tree
March 28, 2018 / 5:00 pm
Environmental Science and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel
Lydia Millet
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Plan of the “Great Death Pit,” so called because it held the bodies of seventy-three retainers. Reprinted from C. Leonard Woolley’s The Royal Cemetery, Ur Excavations, Vol. 2, published in 1934.
April 25, 2018 / 5:00 pm
Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Early Mesopotamia
Holly Pittman
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