John Troyer: Technologies of the Human Corpse

John Troyer and Joanna Ebenstein

John Troyer: Technologies of the Human Corpse

John Troyer and Joanna Ebenstein

9:00pm

Saturday, October 31, 2020

45 mins

Join the Toronto International Festival of Authors for an evening in conversation with author and academic John Troyer. His new book, Technologies of the Human Corpse, examines the preservation of dead human bodies by comparing 19th-century technology with present day science. John is currently the director of the Centre for Death and Society and associate professor in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath.

Interviewer: Joanna Ebenstein

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Join the Toronto International Festival of Authors for an evening in conversation with author and academic John Troyer. His new book, Technologies of the Human Corpse, examines the preservation of dead human bodies by comparing 19th-century technology with present day science. John is currently the director of the Centre for Death and Society and associate professor in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath.

Interviewer: Joanna Ebenstein

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Featured Authors

John Troyer
John Troyer is Director of the Centre for Death and Society and Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. He grew up in the American funeral industry.

Read more about John Troyer

Joanna Ebenstein
Joanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, curator, photographer and graphic designer. She is the creator of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library and event series, and was co-founder (with Tracy Hurley Martin) and creative director of the recently shuttered Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn. Her books include Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy, Death: A Graveside Companion, The Anatomical Venus and The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (with Colin Dickey). Her work explores the intersections of art and medicine, death and culture, and the objective and subjective. 

Read more about Joanna Ebenstein

9:00pm

Saturday, October 31

45 mins

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