{"id":21780,"date":"2016-11-25T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=21780"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:42:11","slug":"cundill-prize-winner-thomas-w-laqueur-berkley-coming-carleton-shannon-lectures-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2016\/cundill-prize-winner-thomas-w-laqueur-berkley-coming-carleton-shannon-lectures-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Cundill Prize Winner Thomas W. Laqueur (Berkeley) is Final Shannon Lectures Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Cundill Prize Winner Thomas W. Laqueur (Berkeley) is Final Shannon Lectures Speaker\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Fresh from winning the world\u2019s largest prize for a work of non-fiction history<\/a>, celebrated historian Thomas W. Laqueur <\/a>will be speaking at Carleton University as a guest of the Department of History<\/a>. The Helen Fawcett Professor of History at the University of California-Berkeley, Laqueur is the final speaker in the 2016 Shannon Lecture Series<\/a>, taking place on the afternoon of December 2nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Work of the Dead by Thomas W. Laqueur<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Last week, in Toronto, Professor Laqueur won the 2016 Cundill Prize<\/a> in Historical Literature for his new book, The Work of The Dead<\/a>. The book offers a richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subject of Laqueur\u2019s book is also the theme of his Shannon Lecture. The lecture, A Cultural History of Caring for the Dead Body<\/a>, will be given in Lecture Room 282 of the University Centre from 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm. Everyone is welcome. Afterwards, there will be a reception in the History Department, located on the 4th floor of Paterson Hall. Everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About The Shannon Lecture Series<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The theme of the History Department\u2019s Shannon Lecture Series for 2016 is Critical Care: Treatment of Body and Mind in Social and Cultural History, and it examines the social, intellectual and cultural history of health, sickness, disease and medicine. The series is organized by medical historian Susanne M. Klausen<\/a> and doctoral candidate Christine Chisholm<\/a> of the Department of History. Laqueur’s presentation is the fourth and final lecture in the monthly series which began in September. The public lectures are made possible by the Shannon Fund, an endowment created by an anonymous friend of the Department of History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Thomas Laqueur<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Professor Thomas W. Laquer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written a number of award winning books, and his most recent, The Work of the Dead, won the $75,000 (U.S.) Cundill Prize (administered by McGill University\u2019s History Department) on November 17. As well, the book won the 2016 PROSE Award<\/a> in European & World History (Association of American Publishers), as well as the 2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History (Independent Publisher Book Awards<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nThomas W. Laqueur<\/strong>
\nA Cultural History of Caring for The Dead Body<\/strong>
\nFriday, December 2, 2016<\/strong>
\n2.30 pm – 4:00 pm<\/strong>
\n282 University Centre, Carleton University
\nReception 4:00 pm in the Department of History
\n(4th floor of Paterson Hall)<\/strong>
\nFor Further Information<\/strong>
\nHistory@carleton.ca<\/strong>
\n613-520-2828<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Contacts<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nick Ward
\nnick.ward@carleton.ca
\nThe Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
\nCommunications
\nCarleton University
\n613-520-2828 Ext. 8436<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Credit: Diogenes by Jules Bastein Lepage (used with permission)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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