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Please see below the announcement of the event "Ways
of Dying" which will be held on October 14 in the Tate
Modern (UK) in cooperation with the Law School of
Birkbeck College and supported by the Leverhulme
Trust.
Ways of Dying
14 October 2006, 14:00 - 19:40
This event explores the shifting relationship between
life and death in contemporary technologically
mediated and globally linked cultures. It draws
together specialists from fields such as art,
philosophy, law, medicine, political theory, gender
and cultural studies, bio-technology and environmental
sciences.
The event focuses on the proliferation of social
practices that allegedly target 'life' but affect the
practices of dying just as much. Examples of this are
the simultaneous quest for ever-lasting youth and
beauty and the rise of assisted deaths. The boundaries
between living and dying, surviving and becoming
extinct are shifting. This in turn affects our
collective relationship to the future, which in
contemporary culture swings between euphoric utopias
and apocalyptic visions. This event places emphasis on
the mutual inter-dependence of material, cultural,
political and environmental forces that shape our
possible futures.
In cooperation with the Law School of Birkbeck College
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£25 (£15 concessions), booking required
Price includes refreshments
For tickets:
http://www.tate.org.uk/ Or call 020 7887
8888
Provisional timings of speakers and titles
14:00 - 14:10
Opening Remarks - Marko Daniel (Tate Modern)
14:10 - 15:00
Marina Warner (London): 'On Hecuba and women who kill'
15:00 - 15:45
Marquard Smith (London): 'Contemporary bio-genetic
artists'
15:45 - 16:30
Patrick Hanafin (London): 'Voluntary Euthanasia and
death tourism'
16:30 - 17:00
Break
17:00 - 17:45
Iona Heath: 'Matters of Life and Death'
17:45 - 18:40
Donna Haraway (UC Santa Cruz) in dialogue with Rosi
Braidotti (Utrecht University/Leverhulme Visiting
Professor Birkbeck College)
18:40 - 19:40
Drinks Reception and music by DJ Halo
East Room, Level 7
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