March 3, 2017, Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums "Ways of Dying/Ways of Mourning" Kimberley Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at Harvard Divinity School; and Mayra Rivera, Professor of Religion and Latina/o Studies, Harvard Divinity School. Moderated by Mary Schneider Enriquez, Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums and curator of "Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning." This symposium brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines and institutions to discuss Doris Salcedo’s work within the contexts of political science, human rights, religion, philosophy and literature, and art history. The two-day symposium sought to prompt wider conversation about the issues that are underscored in the exhibition "Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning" (Harvard Art Museums, November 4, 2016–April 9, 2017) and in Salcedo’s work as a whole—issues that are increasingly relevant in contemporary societies around the world. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/topography-of-loss-a-symposium-on-doris-salcedo