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Michael Jennions & Michael Lambek – Death, and Life Matters: Why the Comma?

We modestly take on the topic of the nature and meaning of life and death, to be disposed of from two perspectives in only an hour. We illustrate different, but complementary approaches that a cultural anthropologist and a biologist can take to fundamental matters of existence. From the anthropological side, we begin with the fact that while humans are a species with the certain knowledge of the inevitability of death they are equally uncertain—and given to speculation—of what death is, or about what happens after. How do they finesse the opposition? From the biological side, life and death are inseparable. Without death the diversity of life would not exist. But what is it to be alive? Are languages, viruses, or computer codes alive? What legacy do the dead leave the living? And, while we are at it: could we really live forever young? MICHAEL JENNIONS, a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2016/2017, is Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at The Australian National University. He works on evolutionary questions, with a focus on traits that increase mating or fertilisation success, and parental care. He has published research on, in order of decreasing interest: crabs, fish, insects, frogs, birds and humans. At the Wissenschaftskolleg he is a member of the Focus Group Causes and Implications of Adult Sex Ratio Variation in Vertebrates. MICHAEL LAMBEK, a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2016/2017, is a Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. He has published recently on religion and on ethical life, exploring the relevance of judgment and value for social theory and the interpretation of action. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the islands of Mayotte and Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean and is currently completing a 40-year ethnographic history of a community in Mayotte. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Miittwoch, 21. Juni 2017 Watch video with presentation: wiko-berlin.de/en/wikotheque/video/2016-abendkolloquium-death-and-life-matters-why-the-comma/