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ADVISORY: "Seeing the Difference/Seeing Differently"
ATTENTION:
ASSIGNMENT DESKS
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05/25/00
Contact: Kathleen Maclay
(510) 643-5651
ckm@pa.urel.berkeley.edu
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WHAT: |
"Seeing
the Difference/Seeing Differently," an institute exploring
what it means to die in America in the 21st century. A goal
is to produce video and print guides for training practitioners
to work with the dying. |
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WHEN: |
9:15
a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday and Friday, June 1-2. |
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WHERE: |
The
University of California, Berkeley's Townsend Center for
the Humanities. |
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WHO: |
Participants
will include artists and humanists, health care providers
and clinicians from around the country. |
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BACKGROUND:
"While
death may be the vanishing point of medical knowledge
and representation, it is also a point of meditation,"
says Christina Gillis, associate director of the Townsend
Center, which is sponsoring the institute. "Neither doctors
nor humanists, nor artists or policy-makers can provide
all the answers where death is concerned; any inquiry
into its cultural, scientific, and perhaps even spiritual
contours must be a plural one."
Participants
will address questions such as:
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When is dying?
- How
does one speak the "unspeakable" and talk about time
in the dying process?
- What,
and when, is the margin between living and dying?
- How
has technology altered our concepts of death?
- How
do we develop new forms of empathy for those facing
imminent death?
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