EnlightenED Learning
In Class Lecture Series
Welcome to EnlightenED, your gateway to immersive learning! Here, you’ll find a dynamic collection of lectures crafted from years of research and fieldwork. Designed for in-class learning, each session weaves together art, history, anatomy, science, and medicine in a visually rich and engaging format. With interactive content and thought-provoking discussions, every lecture promises a memorable experience. Explore the upcoming series below for details on dates, times, and venues. I look forward to seeing you there!
โโโFall Session
Oct 6, 2025 Recovering the Dead: Post Conflict Areas
University of North Carolina Wilmington
This lecture explores the role of forensic anthropology in human rights investigations, focusing on the scientific, ethical, and political dimensions of locating and identifying victims of mass violence, genocide, and state-sponsored disappearances. Drawing on real-world casework and international protocols, the talk highlights how forensic evidence contributes to truth-telling, justice, and reparation efforts. Key themes include documentation practices, trauma analysis, and working with affected communities, as well as the challenges of navigating cultural, legal, and political barriers in post-conflict and transitional justice contextsโ
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โโOct 9, 2025 Murder, Medicine and Mayhem
8 part Lecture Series: Thursdays 3-5pm
LIFEInstituteTMU Registration at:
https://thelifeinstitute.ca/page/fall25Thurregistration
This gripping series unpacks the strange origins of medicine, a place where snakes, saints, and scalpels collide. Against the backdrop of relics, specimens, and the world of grave robbing, we follow the trail of artists, surgeons and scholars in their use of the human body. Along the way, we discover how human dissection established state authority, Renaissance art, and the foundations of legal medicine.
โResources for Students:
Archives: "Codices urbinates graeci Bibliothecae Vaticanae: Folio 64(Urb.gr.64)". Vatican Library: DigiVatLib. 900–1100. p. folio:116 microfilm: 121
Cooper, M T (1981). "Knots". The Journal of the American Medical Association. 245 (17): 1730. doi:10.1001/jama.1981.03310420020013
Engle, Bernice S. (1929). "The Use of Mercury's Caduceus as a Medical Emblem" The Classical Journal. 25 (3): 204–208. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3289465
Grimes, Shannon (2018). Becoming Gold. Auckland: Rubedo Press
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Moore, W (2005) The Knife Man. Broadway Books
Tyson, Stuart L. (June 1932). "The Caduceus". The Scientific Monthly. 34 (6): 492–498. Bibcode:1932SciMo..34..492T
Patai, Raphael (1995). The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book. Princeton University Press. pp. 60–91. ISBN 9780691006420
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Vatican Digital Archives
www.digi.vatlib.it
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Video clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZDtu65lQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aHqa43Piik
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zeLP3zgacVo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTpp0EChDbI
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XklG0umHhRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xIerecs-ec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtRdQeGm_7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDIeTqwNoV4
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Winter Session
Jan, 2026 Women of Science
8 part Lecture Series: TBA 12:30-2:30pm
LIFEInstituteTMU Registration at:
Join me on a journey through time as we explore the stories of pioneers, rebels, and visionaries who defied convention to push the frontiers of human knowledge. From the alchemy labs of the ancient world to the cutting-edge research of modern physics, this lecture series uncovers many of the hidden or forgotten, trailblazing women who transformed their fields with quiet revolutionary defiance.
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