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SUMMARY:Can We Simulate the Dead? A Symposium on Technology\, Grief\, and the Afterlife
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER BELOW\nConversation | Q&A | Wine & Cheese Reception \nThis event is primarily intended for current University of Chicago students\, faculty\, and staff. It is open to the general public. For any questions\, please contact William Hurley at whurley@lumenchristi.org. \nA new economy of “grief-tech” has arisen to confront the old problem of death.  Changing social norms and advances in artificial intelligence have made it possible to ask\, “Can we disrupt death?” Are grief-bots and simulated grandpas the solution to the anxieties of the human condition? \nThroughout history\, communities of great cultural and religious variety have provided rituals and traditions to deal with death and guide people through the critical process of grieving\, memorializing the departed\, and aiding the dead in the afterlife. In our time\, such inherited practices and beliefs have declined\, along with the communities that sustained them. \nThis symposium will explore technology and our changed circumstances\, and will ask what disrupting conceptions of death through technology might mean for vital aspects of human self-understanding\, mourning\, care relationships\, and the social order in which we are born\, live\, and pass away. \nThis symposium celebrates the publication of a special issue of Social Research\, Disrupting Death. Copies will be available for sale at the event for $15 each. \nSchedule\n\n5:30 – 5:40 p.m.   Symposium opens with framing remarks by Cassandra Sever\n5:40 – 5:45 p.m.   Dr. Sever asks an opening question\n5:45 – 6:30 p.m.   Conversation and Discussion\n6:30 – 7:15 p.m.   Audience Q&A\n7:15 – 7:45 p.m.   End / Wine & Cheese Reception for Audience\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School \n \nThis project is made possible through the support of In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide (grant #63614) from the John Templeton Foundation and the generous support of our donors.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/can-we-simulate-the-dead-a-symposium-on-technology-grief-and-the-afterlife/
LOCATION:Swift Hall 3rd Floor Lecture Hall\, 1025 E 58th Street\, Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Symposia
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SUMMARY:Canonizing Canines?: A Dog "Saint" and Medieval Christians
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER BELOW\n5:00 p.m. Doors Open | 5:15 p.m.  Mass  |  5:45 p.m. Reception  |  6:30 p.m. Lecture  |   \n7:30 p.m. End \nFor information\, please contact Margaux Taffet at mtaffet@lumenchristi.org. \nWe offer our condolences to the family and friends of Fr. Stephen Molvarec\, SJ\, who died on Saturday. Eternal rest grant unto him\, O Lord\, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. \nWe are grateful to Fr. Michael Maher\, SJ\, who has stepped in to offer the lecture. \nThis talk explores the veneration by Medieval Christians of “Saint” Guinefort\, a greyhound said to have lived a heroic life in 13th-century France. While the Church does not formally name dogs as saints – then or now – this case raises some interesting questions about sanctity and also the relationship of Christians with animals\, particularly dogs\, as well as lived experiences of the natural world by our Christian forebearers. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Loyola Academy. \nRegistration Form
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/bollandist-lecture-oct-2026/
LOCATION:Loyola Academy Chapel\, 1100 Laramie Avenue\, Wilmette\, 60091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Symposia
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