The Columbia University Seminar on Death is an interdisciplinary seminar that critically engages with aspects of death, dying, disposal, and grief.
In recent years, the Seminar has published several volumes of cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship based on participants' research, conferences and colloquium – resuming the tradition of its prolific founder, Dr. Austin Kutscher.
The Seminar on Death organizes conferences and colloquia to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines around a particular theme related to death and dying.
Founded in 1971, the Seminar on Death is #507 of the University Seminars, a community of partnerships spanning disciplines within and beyond the academy.