Inaugural Annual Lecture & AGM

The Australian Death Studies Society is pleased to announce our first Annual Lecture and Annual General Meeting.

Annual Lecture: “The Work of the Dead in 21st Century America”

Professor Thomas W. Laqueur

Prof Laqueur is an American cultural historian, sexologist and writer. He is the winner of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award, and is currently the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Laqueur was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.

Prof. Laqueur’s influential 2016 book, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Princeton University Press) explored the meaning of human concern for mortal remains throughout history. The book received several prizes, including the 2016 George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association and the 2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History, from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

In this lecture, Prof Laqueur will provide an updated account of the contemporary work of the dead, with opportunities to engage the ADSS membership in discussion of the differences between and within Western death cultures.

Event

The Annual Lecture and AGM will be held on February 24th 2022, from 10am AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne).

10:00 Annual General Meeting

11:00 Annual Lecture

12:00 ADSS members question time

Registration

The AGM is for ADSS members only. The Annual Lecture is open to the public. After the lecture and public questions, ADSS members will have the opportunity to engage in a private discussion of the work with Prof. Laqueur.

All wishing to attend must register here.

Both the AGM and Annual Lecture use the same registration link.