The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is proud to present the Shaw-Mannell Leisure Research Award Lecture featuring 2022 recipient, Karen Fox.
The award recognizes international career contributions to the study of leisure, broadly defined, and influence on leisure scholarship at the University of Waterloo. The award is named in honour of retired faculty members Sue Shaw and Roger Mannell to recognize their outstanding individual career achievements.
Josef Pieper developed a substantial oeuvre about the meaning of leisure, because he saw leisure in modern society undercut with the overwhelming emphasis and value on work, commodification, and capitalism as detrimental to the “essence” of leisure. In this presentation, Dr. Karen Fox turns again to Pieper’s concept of leisure to reconsider the breadth of his scholarship and insight for today’s world and Frank Ostaseski’s “Five Invitations: Teachings on Death and Living Fully”. Intertwining stories and theory, Fox wanders through types of leisure often overlooked or dismissed that help us see life as it is, being at home with oneself and others, as well as accepting and celebrating all of life’s journey of living and dying.
The Shaw-Mannell Lecture is funded by the Lyle S. Hallman Professorial Endowment.
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