RCHA's "Life & Death" Seminar Series
directed by Kim Mutcherson (Co-Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School) and Johanna Schoen (History, Rutgers)
Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings held 11--1:00pm
For pre-circulated readings, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
JANUARY
26- "The Transtheoretical Model of Seemingly Innocuous Biomedical Exuberance (TRIBE): How the Social and Moral Emotions Fuel the Medicalization of End-of-Life Care in the United States." Paul Duberstein (Rutgers School of Public Health, RCHA Faculty Fellow)
FEBRUARY
2-“Refining and Piloting a Peer-to-Peer Intervention to Enhance Engagement in and Knowledge of Palliative Care and Advanced Care Planning in Underserved, Community-Dwelling Older Adults” Elissa Kozlov (Public Health, RCHA Faculty Fellow)
9- "The Living Dead, Making Death as Cadaveric Decomposition Postmortem Examinations and the Violence of the War in Colombia" Julia Alejandra Morales Fontanilla (RCHA Postdoc)
16- “Manufacturing Threats to Humanity: Global Catastrophic Risk Classification by Influential Third Sector Organizations” Aaron Martin (Sociology, RCHA Graduate Fellow)
23- “We Are as Proud of Our Gayness as We Are of Our Blackness”: Gay Men of African Descent and the Social & Political Mobilization of Black Gay Men the 1980s and 1990s." Jeffery Berryhill (History, RCHA Graduate Fellow)
MARCH
2- "Calculating Killers: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessments of Black and White Juvenile Crime in the Era of Columbine" Joanna Federico (History, RCHA Graduate Fellow)
9- “Moscow Strikes Back: Compiling the Record of German Atrocities in the Wartime Soviet Union” Jochen Hellbeck (Professor of History, RCHA Faculty Fellow)
23- “Haiti will be a Land of Honor, Peace, and Contentment”: Gendered Violence and Modern Torture in Haitian Occupied Novels Shanna Jean Baptiste (RCHA Postdoc)
30- "Climate and the Currents of Empire" Elaine LaFay (History, RCHA Faculty Fellow)
APRIL
6- “Death in the Time of Cholera: Pandemics, Public Health, and Burial in 19th-century Havana.” Bethany Wade (RCHA Postdoc)
13- "Responsibility and Restriction: Studying Counterterrorism Policy Through the Lens of the Just War Tradition" Jayme Schlesinger (Political Science, RCHA Graduate Fellow)
20- "Ecologies of Wounds and Wounding" Omar Al-Dewachi (Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology, RCHA Faculty Fellow)
27- "Whose Life [Will It Be] Anyway?" Trip McCrossin (Philosophy, RCHA Faculty Fellow)
MAY
4- "Counseling Women who are Pregnant after Terminating a Pregnancy for Fetal Anomaly (TOPFA): The RAINBO Model" Erica Goldblatt-Hyatt (Assistant Director of DSW Program, School of Social Work, RCHA Faculty Fellow)