Time: 7 pm EDT
Admission: $8 - Tickets and more info HERE

Moirologists, aka professional mourners, have been providing this paid service for millennia. This lecture will follow the history of moirology from antiquity to the present. We will examine professional lamentation in various global cultures including pharaonic Egypt, classical Greece & Rome, Portuguese carpidieras, Mexican lloranas, Sicilian widows, New Orleans jazz funerals, and more.