  {"id":15619,"date":"2016-12-05T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15619"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:57","slug":"final-shannon-lecture-thomas-laqueur-university-california-berkeley-attracts-huge-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/final-shannon-lecture-thomas-laqueur-university-california-berkeley-attracts-huge-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Shannon Lecture, by Thomas Laqueur, Attracts Large and Diverse Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Final Shannon Lecture, by Thomas Laqueur, Attracts Large and Diverse Audience\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium wp-image-15622\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/thomas-laqueur-240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Chisholm, Tom Laqueur, Susanne Klausen, Shannon \" class=\"wp-image-15622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/thomas-laqueur-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/thomas-laqueur-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/thomas-laqueur-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/thomas-laqueur-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/thomas-laqueur-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christine Chisholm, Tom Laqueur, Susanne Klausen, Shannon Lectures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The fourth and final lecture of the 2016 Shannon Lecture Series was given on Friday, December 2 by Thomas Laqueur, the Helen Fawcett Professor of History at the University of California-Berkeley. Professor Laqueur has written a number of path-breaking and award winning books on the&nbsp;history of sexuality and the body, and his most recent,&nbsp;<em>The Work of the Dead<\/em>, won the 2016 Cundill Prize, the 2016&nbsp;PROSE Award&nbsp;in European &amp; World History (Association of American Publishers), and was the 2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History (Independent Publisher Book Awards). Friday\u2019s lecture, \u201cA Cultural History of Caring for The Dead Body,\u201d&nbsp;was derived from his new book and it was an erudite&nbsp;and entertaining account of the origins and meaning of cremation in modern European history. There was a&nbsp;large turn-out to his lecture, including students from the University of Ottawa and members of the public, the latter because they heard Laqueur\u2019s interview on CBC Radio that morning. The co-organizers of the 2016 Shannon Lecture Series, Christine Chisholm and Susanne M. Klausen, were thrilled by Laqueur\u2019s lecture and the warm response by members of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ community and the public to his visit to ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth and final lecture of the 2016 Shannon Lecture Series was given on Friday, December 2 by Thomas Laqueur, the Helen Fawcett Professor of History at the University of California-Berkeley. Professor Laqueur has written a number of path-breaking and award winning books on the&nbsp;history of sexuality and the body, and his most recent,&nbsp;The Work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15629,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619\/revisions\/15629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}