ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012 (schedule in progress)

"Psychodynamics of Physician-Assisted Suicide"

May 9, 2012
Suzanne Garfinkle, M.D., MSc
Director, Mount Sinai Academy for Medicine and the Humanities
Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

"The Death Drive as Conservative Principle, With an Ear Toward Jazz"

April 11, 2012
Daniel Sapen, Ph.D.
Musician and Psychologist in Private Practice

Reshaping Our Journey to the End: Death, Dying, and Bereavement in the 21st Century

Third Austin H. Kutcher Memorial Conference
(Program, Registration, Hotels, Flyer)
March 24, 2012

"Suite française: Sophie Calle’s Room (The Lowell, New York City, October 13-16, 2011)"

March 7, 2012
Marcelline Block
Princeton University

"Mortal Dilemmas: An Experiment in Public Discourse about Death"

February 8, 2012
Donald Joralemon, PhD
Professor of Anthropology, Smith College

"Developments in Palliative Care (Title TBA)"

December 14, 2011
Diane Meier, MD, FACP
Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), New York
Director of the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute
Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, and
Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City

"Spiritual Care at the End of Life (Title TBA)"

November 9, 2011
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs, BCC
author of A Clergy Guide to End of Life Issues, (2010)
Adjunct Professor at New York Theological Seminary
Coordinator of the Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Care for Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisors and Directors of Pastoral Care

“Personal Memorial Objects in the 21st Century”

October 12, 2011
Angela Riechers, MFA
Art Director and Lecturer, CCNY

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