2025 Frieze Lectures, This is the End

Schedule

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library) | Rock Island, IL

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The Frieze Lectures, a free public lecture series created to celebrate the oldest library in Illinois founded under the Local Library Act of 1872, continues for its 28th year, October 23 to November 13.
This year’s Frieze Lectures will consider subjects related to death, dying and mortality through the four distinct academic lenses of psychology, art, poetry, and anthropology. All presentations begin at 2:00 p.m. at Downtown Rock Island Public Library, 401 19th Street. All are open to the public, free of charge.
October 23: Death and the Psychologist, presented by Dr. Jayne Rose, professor emerita of psychology.
October 30: Death and the Artist, presented by Dr. Margaret Morse, professor of art and art history.
November 6: Death and the Poet, presented by Rebecca Wee, professor of English and Quad Cities poet laureate emerita.
November 13: Death and the Anthropologist, presented by Dr. Adam Kaul, professor of anthropology.
Named for the architectural decoration around the top of the Downtown Library, the Frieze Lecture Series was created by the late Ruth Evelyn Katz, a library board member and 1938 graduate of Augustana College, to celebrate the library's 125th anniversary in 1998.
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Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library), 401 19th St,Rock Island, Illinois, United States

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