Re-Imagining Death: The Calgary Institute for the Humanities 44th Annual Community Seminar at the University of Calgary

Description

The 44th Calgary Institute for the Humanities (CIH) Annual Community Forum, Re-Imagining Death, will be held on May 9, 2025 and will welcome guest speakers, artist, and musicians to look at how the experience and representation of death in the contemporary era has changed as a result of new technologies (the internet, AI, holograms), societal shifts (the rise of environmentalism, the decline of religion) and other developments. Although everyone dies, the meaning and experience of death varies widely depending on time and place. One classic account of how western society has treated death posits a major shift from the premodern era, where death was a familiar presence, to the modern era, when death was hidden away. More recently, scholars have argued that we have entered a new era, in which death has become a spectacle. What new experiences of death have emerged, and what are the ethical challenges that accompany them?

Keynote Speaker

THE FUTURE OF DEATH

Dr. John Troyer
Death Studies Scholar-at-Large, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK

Period	9 May 2025
Event type	Seminar
Location	Calgary, Canada, AlbertaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International