A discussion of James Joyce’s “The Dead” with Rita Charon, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.

“Death and dying in a modern Indian hospital” – a discussion with Veena Das, Professor of Sociology at the University of Delhi.

The anatomy lab, a discussion with Hugh Pat Patterson, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy, UC San Francisco and Alice Jones, MD, psychoanalyst and poet.

Visual representations of illness and death, a presentation by artist and sculptor Pamela Blottner.

Musical representation of death presented by Elizabeth LeGuin, professional cellist and PhD candidate in the Department of Music, UCB.

Discussion of The Day of the Dead and other mortal reflections with its author Dr. Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University.

An evening on Death with Peter Sellars.

Organ transplantation and the trafficking of human organs – a discussion with Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Professor of Anthropology, UCB.

Dementia: it’s medicalization and our cultural attitudes towards people with this disorder – a discussion with Elery Hamilton-Smith, sociologist and Research Fellow, Lincoln Gerontology Centre, La Trobe University, Australia.

A discussion about death in America with Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor of Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.