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Lecture: "In the Presence of the Dead: A Conversation with Thomas Lynch on Living and Dying"

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Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

Thomas Lynch's work has been the subject of two film documentaries.  PBS Frontline's The Undertaking, aired nationwide in  2007, won the 2008 Emmy Award for Arts and Culture Documentary.  Cathal Black's film, Learning Gravity, produced for the BBC, was featured at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival and the 6th Traverse City Film Festival in 2009 where it was awarded the Michigan Prize by Michael Moore.  He has taught with the Department of Mortuary Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, with the graduate program in writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and with the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.  He is a charter member of the faculty of the Bear River Writers Conference at Walloon Lake in Michigan.  
 

Thomas Lynch's essays, poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic and Granta, The New York Times and Times of London, The New Yorker, Poetry and The Paris Review and elsewhere.  He lives in Milford, Michigan where he has been the funeral director since 1974, and in Moveen, Co. Clare, Ireland where he keeps an ancestral cottage.
 

The event is free and open to the public.  For further information, please contact Jessica Keating at 574.631.9781 or email jessica.f.keating.34@nd.edu

Co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Character Project and the Office of Human Dignity & Life Initiatives at the Institute for Church Life.