Lectures and special events are planned for the "Memory and Mourning" exhibit. Most are at the University art Museum or on the campus of the University at Albany, Washington Avenue, Albany, unless otherwise specified:
"Day of the Dead"
Reception for installation by Antonio Martorell
Objetos del ausente (West Gallery)
Saturday, Nov. 1, 6 to 9 p.m. University Art Museum."Transfiguration Concert"
Max Lifchitz, Music Department
Sunday, Nov. 2, 3 p.m.
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Lectures
"Among Angels: Poetry Reading and Slide Show"
Nancy Willard, professor of English at Vassar College, will read from her new book "Among Angels."
Exhibiting artist Lilo Raymond will talk about her photographs of angel sculpture.
Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 4:40 p.m.
University Art Museum"Mortality in Poetry"
Helen Elam, English Department
Monday, Oct. 13, at 4:30 p.m.
Fine Arts Building, Room 126"The Victorian Way of Death"
Carla Sofka, Ph.D., School of Social Welfare
Thursday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m."Images of Death in Shakespeare"
Martha Rozett, Ph.D., English Department
Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m.
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center"Life, Death and Mortuary Behaviors: A view from the Cemetery
Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., Anthropology Department
Tuesday, Oct. 28, noontime brown-bag lunch
University Art Museum"Surviving Literary Suicide"
Jeff Berman, Ph.D., English Department
A discussion of writers Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, Campus Center"Jewish Views on the Afterlife"
Judith Baskin, Ph.D., Judaic Studies Department
Monday, Nov. 3, noontime brown-bag lunch
University Art Museum"A Buddhist View of Death and Rebirth"
Paul Naamon, Anthropology Department
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m.
Fine Arts Building, Room 126"Mediterranean Cultures"
Lou Roberts, Ph.D., Classics Department
Thursday, Nov. 6, at 4 p.m.
Assembly Hall"Death and the Medieval Knight"
Rachel Dressler, Ph.D., Art History Department
Thursday, Nov. 13, at 6 p.m.
Assembly Hall, Campus Center