Ann and Mike Leming
Dr. Mike and Ann Leming will be on Lee's campus this week for two events. Dr. Mike Leming will discuss “Bereavement and Loss: A Process of Caring” in Johnson Lecture Hall on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The Lemings will present “Overtures to Thailand,” a discussion of their 16 years of work among the Thai people on Thursday at 4 p.m. This will take place in the Humanities Building, Room 203. The Lemings will also speak to students interested in sociology and special education.
Dr. Leming is professor emeritus of Sociology at St. Olaf’s College and the author of over 20 books, primarily in the field of aging. He has written "Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement," and the "Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience," among others. He is one of the founding members of the Association of Christians Teaching Sociology and was a recipient of a Pew Evangelical Scholar Grant to study the Karen tribe of northern Thailand. In addition to gerontology, Dr. Leming specializes in the sociology of community development.
Ms. Leming has been a professor of education at St. Olaf’s and Carleton Colleges, specializing in disability studies and the use of the arts.
During their years in Thailand, the Lemings initiated the Interact Thailand Program for the disabled in the performing arts. The center was funded by a $6.9 million grant from the Thai government and is designed in the shape of a piano.
Both events, sponsored by the Sociology Honor Society Alpha Kappa Delta are free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact AKD member Jordan Halperin at jhalpe00@leeu.edu or faculty sponsor Dr. Karen Mundy Judkins, kmundy@leeuniversity.edu. More information on the work of the Lemings can be found at their blog, http://www.springsemesterinthailand.com/.