Contact information
Name:
Professor J Selke
Email:
selkej@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Where:
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights Room 104
Presenter:
Dr. Candi K. Cann
From robots to augmented and virtual realities, metaverses and gaming, Cann makes the argument that these technologies are not as foreign or as strange as they first might seem. Profoundly hard of hearing, Cann’s reliance on hearing aids from the age of four make her optimistically curious about new technologies, and she challenges the audience to rethink the ways in which they might create accessible spaces and interrogate traditional notions of biology and death.Along the way, she also argues for a more inclusive world that recognizes the gifts that disability might teach a world that privileges non-disabled people and spaces.
Former Fulbright Scholar and Harvard graduate, author of five books and many articles. Her research focuses on death, dying, and grief, and she is especially interested in the intersections of marginality, diversity, and death technologies, and loves to talk all things death.
Read more about her at www.deathscholar.com.
Sponsored by:
Department of Religious Studies and the Lyman Coleman Guest Speaker Fund