Technology and Immortality

[marcel]

Very sorry for spamming.
The Solomon lecture is at 3:00 pm.
m.
On 27-Nov-09, at 4:16 PM, marcel wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> The UW Critical Media Lab and the Department of Psychology are  
> pleased to invite you to an animated lecture by Sheldon Solomon,  
> Professor of Psychology and the Courtney and Steven Ross Professor  
> of Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College. Solomon is one of  
> the founders of Terror Management Theory (TMT), which posits that  
> human behaviour and the formation of human cultures are rooted in  
> our universal denial of death. As the cultural anthropologist Ernest  
> Becker once put it, humans are the only creatures whose sole purpose  
> is to deny their creatureliness, which includes their mortality.  
> Becker's convincing arguments earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1974  
> for his book _Denial of Death_. More recently, by applying Becker's  
> theories of death denial to experiments in social psychology, Terror  
> Management Theorists have generated over 300 distinct studies that  
> investigate how human motivation may be rooted in the denial of  
> death and the quest for immortality. Such studies are being  
> conducted here at UW in the departments of Psychology and perhaps  
> surprisingly in English, in the context of technology and rhetorics  
> of immortality.
>
> Solomon is an extremely engaging and energetic speaker, known for  
> his tie-dyed shirts, rapid-fire delivery, and broad  
> interdisciplinary range. He was featured in the film _Flight from  
> Death: The Quest for Immortality_, which will be screened at the  
> Critical Media Lab as a "warm-up" for the lecture. The screening  
> will be followed by an informal discussion on the topic of  
> "Technology and Immortality."
>
> FILM SCREENING
> _Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality_ (2006, 85 min.)
> Tuesday, December 1, 7:30 pm
> Critical Media Lab
> 191 King Street West, directly across from Kitchener City Hall
>
> LECTURE
> Sheldon Solomon, "Teach These Souls to Fly: The Psychological  
> Function of Supernatural Beliefs"
> Friday, December 4, Arts Lecture Hall 124
>
> The video linked below will give you a good idea of Solomon's "ethos":
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS8DnYwnnF4
>
> And here is Solomon (actually wearing a tie) explaining TMT:
> http://revver.com/video/13408/terror-management-theory-defined/
>
> Web site for _Flight From Death_ film:
> http://www.flightfromdeath.com/
>
> We hope to see you at either or both of these events, which are  
> guaranteed to provoke and stimulate.
>
> ----
> Professor Marcel O'Gorman, PhD
> Director, Critical Media Lab
> Department of English
> University of Waterloo
> Hagey Hall
> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
> Tel: 519 888 4567 x32946
> Fax: 519 746 5788
> http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca
> http://marcelogorman.net
>
>
>

-- 
Professor Marcel O'Gorman, PhD
Director, Critical Media Lab
Department of English
University of Waterloo
Hagey Hall
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519 888 4567 x32946
Fax: 519 746 5788
http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca
http://marcelogorman.net



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