Death & Culture II Conference

Thursday 6 September 2018, 9.00am to 7 September 2018

Speaker(s): Professor Dina Khapaeva Professor Dorthe Refslund Christensen Professor Joanna Bourke Professor Stephen Regan 

This biennial conference focuses 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, in its second iteration, seeks to continue engaging with the study of mortality as an academic enterprise, supported by evidence and framed by theoretical engagement. This truly interdisciplinary event brings together death scholars, including postgraduates, as well as those who might not consider themselves death scholars whose work that overlaps with death and the dead.

The conference will cover topics such as:

• Governance of mortality
• Death in the popular imagination
• Death and the digital realm
• Work in the death industry
• Mass death in the age of individualism
• Artistic death

Location: University of York, Alcuin B Block

Registration: CLOSED

Email: death-and-culture@york.ac.uk

Conference Website

BSA Postgraduate Forum Event: The Promise and Perils of Researching Sensitive Issues

20 November 2018 (09:00-17:00)

Call for papers
Research concerning sensitive and emotionally demanding issues is vital but challenging work in which the onus of care tends to be placed directly on the researcher. These issues may be internal or external, ethical or emotional, or concern the researcher or participant.

As stated in the BSA Statement of Ethical Practice (2017, §12) as researchers we havea ‘responsibility to ensure that the physical, social and psychological well-being ofresearch participants is not adversely affected by the research’. As such, it is the aim of this one-day symposium to offer an opportunity to consider, in a safe and supportive environment of peers, the challenges presented in the conducting of sensitive research, for both participant and researcher, on issues concerning, but not limited to: abuse, atrocity, death, dying, gender, grief, loss, marginalisation, mental health, violence, racism(s) self-harm, sexuality, stigma, trauma and xenophobia(s). Alongside a keynote address from Dr Donna Poade (University of Exeter) we welcome abstracts for papers lasting twenty-minutes.

We welcome abstracts engaging with the above discussed themes, but not limited to:

• Emotional labour and emotion work
• Facing emotions within research
• Responsibility to participants and self
• Sensitive methodologies
• The presentation of sensitive research
• Ethical issues associated with sensitive research
• The place of the researcher
  
  Submitting an abstract
  Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be supplied, along with a biography of up to 100 words to rosii@york.ac.uk by no later than 31 August 2018.
  
  Event details
  The symposium will be held at the University of York and is being convened by Matt Coward (matt.coward@york.ac.uk) and Daniel Robins (daniel.robins@york.ac.uk). It isgenerously supported by the British Sociological Association’s Postgraduate Forum regional day event fund with assistance from DaCNet: Interdisciplinary Death & Culture Research (www.york.ac.uk/dacnet)
  
  Registration
  BSA Members - £5.00
  Non-Members - £15.00https://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10749

Regimes of Reproduction: The Mexican System of Assisted Reproduction

Monday 23 July 2018, 3.00pm to 4.00pm

Speaker(s): Sandra González-Santos (Phd in Sociology, Sussex) - National Research System Member (in Mexico)

A few weeks ago there was news of a crisis in the USA: The temperature of couple of tanks holding embryos had drastically dropped. The embryos that were there were in danger, as were the dreams and hopes of those who had kept them there. In this seminar I look at the epistemic and material infrastructure as well as the (bio)politics that make up the AR system with the purpose of highlighting the regimes of reproduction that are assembled and enacted in and through this system. I argue that these stories speak of how reproduction is undergoing a process of redefinition and revaluation affected by the current types of globalisation, commodification, industrialisation, and marketisation.

Location: Wentworth College W/243

Admission: FREE Eventbrite

Email: sarah.shrive-morrison@york.ac.uk