“Making a Healing Wound” – how do surgeons manage to cut people? A discussion with Lauren Kosinski, MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Surgery UC San Francisco.

Children’s dreams and fantasies of death – a presentation by Wendy Ewald, photographer and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.

Poetry and death – discussion led by Marilyn Chandler McEntryre, Professor of English, Westmont College.

“Thoughts on Death Since the Age of Enlightenment,” a discussion with Gunther Stent, founding chairman of UC Berkeley’s Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.

Texas Death Row, an inside look at life inside America’s largest and most active death row with Ken Light, social documentary photographer and teaching fellow and Curator of the Center for Photography, Graduate School of Journalism, UCB.

Visual representations of death in the late 19th century and 20th century – presentations by two art historians, Beth Dungan (PhD candidate in Art History, UCB) and Catherine Shear (PhD candidate in Art History, City University in New York).

Preview and discussion of a film-in-progress on “living with life-threatening illness” with documentary filmmaker Bill Jersey.

“The Shadow of Death with Dignity,” a presentation by and discussion with medical anthropologist Sharon Kaufman about her study of patients in persistent vegetative states.

“In Search of the Good Death,” a multimedia presentation by and discussion with Dr. Paul Sarvasy, physician (family practice, AIDS) and teacher at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center.