Citizen Portal
Sign In

Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!

Get email alerts on the Library Programming topic

No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Rock Island Public Library announces 28th annual Freeze Lectures series on death and mortality

Meeting · October 13, 2025
AI-Generated Content: All content on this page was generated by AI to highlight key points from the meeting. For complete details and context, we recommend watching the full video. so we can fix them.

Summary

The Rock Island Public Library will present the Freeze Lectures Oct. 23'0Nov.13, a free public series exploring death, dying and mortality; the first lecture, "Death and the Psychologist," will be given Oct. 23 by Dr. Jane Rose, professor emerita of psychology.

The Rock Island Public Library's long-running Freeze Lectures series will run from Oct. 23 through Nov. 13, with presentations beginning at 2 p.m., the Clerk announced as part of the agenda update.

Organizers described this year's series as the 28th and said it will consider subjects related to death, dying and mortality through lenses such as psychology, art, poetry and anthropology. The lectures are free and open to the public.

The Clerk said the first lecture, scheduled for Oct. 23, is titled "Death and the Psychologist" and will be presented by Dr. Jane Rose, professor emerita of psychology. No registration or additional program logistics were provided in the announcement.

Additional lecture topics and speaker details were not read aloud during the update.