Death
29 May | 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
All welcome | Free to attend | First come, first served at the door
‘To philosophize is to learn to die’, writes Michel de Montaigne, in a lineage of death-preoccupied thinkers reaching back to Plato’s Socrates. Can philosophers fulfil such a lofty injunction? How might learning to die teach us how to live, or how to live-on while mourning another’s death? We bring together practitioners and thinkers to discuss how medicine, technology, art, and philosophy might make a good death possible.
Speakers
Conor Cunningham [2], Associate Professor in Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Laura Salisbury [3], Professor in Medicine and English Literature, University of Exeter
Louise Winter [4], Funeral Director, ‘Poetic Endings’; Founder and organizer, Life. Death. Whatever Festival
Chair
Danielle Sands [5], Fellow, the Forum; Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London