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“Death is universally inevitable” (Hoy 2013:13) – this shared fate may be the one commonality that unites every living person, their ancestors, and their future kin. However, the ways that humans experience, understand, and cope with death is not universal. How have humans ritualized the process of dealing with their dead? From a critical and cross-cultural perspective, this course explores what death means throughout the world and through time, by examining different cultures’ ideas about death, funerary practices, and treatment of the dead. |
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Date, Time |
Speaker |
Lecture Title |
Location/ Zoom ID |
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Sept 1st 12:55 pm |
Dr. De Ann Pendry, Anthropology |
“Días de los Muertos, Days of the Dead: An Overview of Practices in Mexico and Latin America” |
Zoom ID: 94524874348 Password: 138515 |
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Sept 6th 12:55 pm |
Shannon O’Loughlin, Association on American Indian Affairs |
“The Human Rights of Ancestors” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Sept 7th 4:30 pm |
Shannon O’Loughlin, Association on American Indian Affairs |
“The Human Rights of Ancestors” |
Haslam Business Bldg, Rm 103 email amundorff@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Sept 8th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Sara Ritchey, History |
“Women as Caretakers of the Dead & Dying in Late Medieval European Christianity” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Sept 13th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Megan Bryson, Religious Studies |
“Gendering the Afterlife in China” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Sept 14th 4:30 pm |
Dr. Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt University |
“Funerals and the Afterlife from al-Jahiliyya to Islam” |
Haslam Business Bldg, Rm 103 email amundorff@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Sept 15th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt University |
“Funerals and the Afterlife from al-Jahiliyya to Islam” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Sept 20th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Lucia Elgerud, Anthropology |
“Mortuary Care in Somaliland: Recovering the Dead After Government Atrocities” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Sept 21st 11:30 am |
Dr. Asli Zengin, Rutgers University |
“Caring for the Dead: Touch, Funerals, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey” |
Zoom ID: 99575731060 Password: 959005 |
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Sept 22nd 12:55 pm |
Dr. Asli Zengin, Rutgers University |
“Caring for the Dead: Touch, Funerals, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Sept 27th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Alex Bentley, Anthropology |
“The Prehistory of Kinship” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Sept 29th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Susan Lawrence, History |
“Post-mortem Privacy: Who May Tell Your Grandmother’s Story?” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Oct 4th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Christina Torres, UC Merced |
“Dying along the Way: Marking and Memorializing the Death of Travelers in Prehistoric Northern Chile” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Oct 5th 4:30 pm |
Dr. Christina Torres, UC Merced |
“Dying along the Way: Marking and Memorializing the Death of Travelers in Prehistoric Northern Chile” |
Haslam Business Bldg, Rm 103 email amundorff@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Oct 11th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas, University of Connecticut |
TBA |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Oct 12th 4:30 pm |
Dr. Liv Nillson Stutz, Linnaeus University |
“Processing Death: Placing the Cadaver at the Center of the Archaeology of Death” |
Haslam Business Bldg, Rm 103 email amundorff@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Oct 13th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Liv Nillson Stutz, Linnaeus University |
“Death, Rituals, and the Body: Archaeological Approaches to Death in the Past” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Oct 18th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Kami Fletcher, Albright College |
“A Fight for Burial Rights: The Importance of Autonomous Black Burial Grounds” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Oct 19th 4:30 pm |
Dr. Kami Fletcher, Albright College |
“What’s in a Name? Funeral Directors, Female Undertakers and Patriarchy” |
Haslam Business Bldg, Rm 103 email amundorff@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Oct 20th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Tina Sheperdson, Religious Studies |
TBA |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Oct 25th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Erin Darby, Religious Studies |
TBA |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Oct 27th 12:55 pm |
Kinsey Stewart, Anthropology |
“Medicolegal Death Investigation Practices in East Tennessee: An Anthropological Autopsy” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Nov 1st 12:55 pm |
Dr. Michele Buzon, Purdue University |
“Two Decades of Tombos Archaeological Mortuary Research: Successes, Challenges, and Future Goals” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Nov 2nd 4:30 pm |
Dr. Michele Buzon, Purdue University |
“Two Decades of Tombos Archaeological Mortuary Research: Successes, Challenges, and Future Goals” |
Haslam Business Bldg, Rm 103 email amundorff@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Nov 3rd |
TBA |
TBA |
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Nov 8th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Lee Jantz, Anthropology |
“The Forensic Anthropology Center and All That Remains” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Nov 9th 4:30 pm |
Dr. Cate Bird, ICRC |
TBA |
Haslam Business Bldg, Rm 103 email amundorff@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Nov 10th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Cate Bird, ICRC |
TBA |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Nov 15th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Myriam Lamrani, Harvard University |
“An Aesthetic Approach of Necropolitics in Mexico” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Nov 16th 5:30 pm |
Dr. Myriam Lamrani, Harvard University |
“An Aesthetic Approach of Necropolitics in Mexico” |
McClung Museum Rm 63 email amundorff@utk.edu for Zoom link |
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Nov 17th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Katherine Ambroziak, College of Architecture & Design |
TBA |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Nov 22nd 12:55 pm |
Dr. Monica Black, History |
“Death after Mass Death: How Two World Wars Reshaped German Burial Cultures” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Nov 29th 12:55 pm |
Dr. Elizabeth Strand, School of Veterinary Medicine |
TBA |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 |
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Dec 1st 12:55 pm |
Dr. Jennifer Perion, School of Public Health |
“Ego Integrity and Positive Death Attitudes among Older Adults” |
Walters Academic Bldg, Rm M307 email kdh@utk.edu for Zoom link |