Please join us for the fourth spring event of our 2015–2016 series on death and dying—a lecture from Amy Hollywood on “Secular Death.” The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on April 14 at 6 p.m. in Sussman Theater (lower level of the Olmsted Center). Note that the time is an hour earlier than usual Comparison Project events.

Amy Hollywood is the Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies and the chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. She is the author of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart, which received the Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies from the International Congress of Medieval Studies; Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History; and Acute Melancholia and Other Essays. She is also the co-editor, with Patricia Beckman, of The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism. Professor Hollywood is currently exploring the place of the mystical, often re-described as enthusiasm, within modern philosophy, theology, and poetry.

Professor Hollywood will offer a performance and meditative talk about how we imagine our own deaths and the deaths of others.

—Tim Knepper, Professor of Philosophy