“To be, or not to be, forever?”, Assistant Professor Danijela Kambaskovic (University of Western Australia)

Date: Friday, 5 December 2014
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM
Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
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Assistant Professor Danijela Kambaskovic is Research Associate with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion 1100-1800, where she is currently working on a book project concerned with cultural history of love and literary genres (The New Life: Love Written in the First Person and the European Renaissance).

She states ‘Remembering the transience of life was (and is) a practice with a fundamentally uplifting purpose. Its messages are simple: right your wrongs. Love deeply. Be good at what you do. Die and be remembered.

Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thinkers felt that being forgotten or overlooked was a fate much worse than dying, and— in their different ways, and using different genres and media— identified procreation, creation and salvation as three ways of living after death.’

Her presentation in relation to the Memento Mori exhibition, To be, or not to be, forever? will investigate the questions: ‘Can we learn from people who have managed not to be forgotten? How are their ideas relevant to our lives?’