Caitlin Mahar on The Good Death Through Time

Sat 13 May 2023

Caitlin Mahar + Scott Stephens

Auditorium 2, slq

Main Festival

BWF077

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

As voluntary assisted dying becomes enshrined in law, Caitlin Mahar's fascinating book interrogates diverse cultural attitudes towards death and the evolution of our society’s understanding of euthanasia. Join her in conversation with Scott Stephens, ABC’s Online Editor of Religion and Ethics, for an illuminating conversation about the big questions surrounding life’s biggest mystery: how it ends.

#Artists

Caitlin Mahar

Caitlin Mahar lectures in history at Swinburne University of Technology. She completed a PhD in history at the University of Melbourne in 2016 and was awarded the Society for the Social History of Medicine Roy Porter Essay Prize, the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Ben Haneman Memorial Award and the University of Melbourne’s Dennis-Wettenhall Prize.

Scott Stephens

Scott Stephens is the ABC’s Religion & Ethics online editor and the co-host, with Waleed Aly, of The Minefield on ABC Radio National. He and Waleed Aly are also the authors of Uncivil Wars: How contempt is corroding democracy (Quarterly Essay 87) (2022). He is editor of Justice and Hope: Essays, lectures and other writings by Raimond Gaita (2023), and the co-editor and translator of two volumes of the selected writings of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, Interrogating the Real (2005) and The Universal Exception (2006).