Ruth Penfold-Mounce (Sociology) along with Jack Denham (Sociology), Julie Rugg (Social Policy) and Ben Poore (TFTV) are running a three day international conference at York on '
Death and Culture'
Call for Papers:
How can we, as academics, understand cultural responses to
mortality?
Is every response to death – over time and over place -
uniquely personal or essentially the same?
This conference focusses on the impact of mortality on
culture, and the ways in which the very fact of death has shaped human
behaviour, evidenced through thought, action, production and expression. The
conference seeks to re-engage with the study of mortality as an academic
enterprise, supported by evidence and framed by theoretical engagement. No
discipline is excluded and we are encouraging researchers including
postgraduates to contribute who might not consider themselves death scholars, with
work that overlaps with death and the dead.
We welcome contributions on topics such as but not limited
to:
·
Death, film and television
·
Fame and death
·
Historical death
·
The dead in place and space
·
Law, death and the dead
·
Art and death
Commonplace death
Confirmed keynotes include
Prof Jacque Lynn Foltyn (National University, California),
Prof Sarah Tarlow (University of Leicester) and
Dr Michelle Aaron (University of Birmingham)
For more details visit:
york.ac.uk/death-and-culture
Please note more information will be added soon regarding conference details.
