September 29, 2026
Augmented: Life and Death as a Cyborg
Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights – Room 104
Former Fulbright Scholar and Harvard graduate, author of five books and many articles, Candi K. Cann currently teaches at Baylor University. 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.
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.
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. 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.
Read more about her at www.deathscholar.com.
Sponsored by the Lafayette College of Religious Studies and the Lyman Coleman Guest Speaker Fund
For more information contact Professor J Selke selkej@lafayette.edu