Events
Unpacking the Exhibition: Death & Dying
Date and Time
Thursday, February 17, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Location
Virtual via Zoom. RSVP to receive access to the event.
Description
Join us for a virtual conversation with GVSU Professors Dr. Anna Hammersmith (sociology) and Dr. Gwyn Madden (anthropology) about how the experience of death is defined, honored, and navigated in America and around the world. Through the lens of this conversation we'll look at the artwork in the exhibition Sorrow/Fullness: A Reflection on Mourning by metalsmiths Sue Amendolara, Adrianne Grafton, and Renee Zettle-Sterling.
Professor Hammersmith grew up north of Columbus, Ohio. She attended
Denison University in Granville, Ohio where she earned a double major
in Sociology/Anthropology and Spanish. In 2018, Professor Hammersmith
graduated with a Ph.D. in Sociology and a minor in Quantitative
Methods from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green,
Ohio. areas of specialization are aging and families, parent’s
relationships with their adult children, caregiving, as well as union
dissolution and formation in later life.
Professor Madden received her PhD from University of Nevada.
She's a bioarchaeologist with specialty in osteology, paleopathology,
and mummy research. Her current research focuses on excavation in
Ukraine, analysis of Byzantine period skeletal remains from Jordan,
and analysis of three South American mummies housed in Norway. She
teaches courses on the connection between culture and the physical
body as well as general courses in anthropology, archaeology, and
physical anthropology.
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Contact
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