The Lost Art of Dying

1811 Maher Drive,Irving TX 75062

01 December, 2021

Description

A lecture by Dr. Lydia Dugdale University of Dallas The Thomistic Institute at the University of Dallas presents a lecture by Dr. Lydia Dugdale of Columbia University titled “The Lost Art of Dying: How a 500-Year Old Painting Can Cause Us to Reckon with Bodily Finitude.” Zoom | Live Viewing in Gorman A Wednesday, December 1 7:00 PM CT / 8:00 PM ET This lecture is free and open to the public. Register to receive the Zoom invitation in your email inbox. Check below "Additional Information" in the Eventbrite confirmation email. About the speaker Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she served as Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death. The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone.  The TI is an academic institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.   You can find all of the Thomistic Institute lecture recordings on https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute or through the Apple Podcast by searching "Thomsitic Institute."