Wednesday 9 January 2019

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Corpse Work

Thursday 13 June 2019, 9.00am to 5.00pm
(CFP Deadline 31 March 2019)
DaCNet, based at the University of York, invites papers for the one-day symposium Interdisciplinary Approaches to Corpse Work. In the context of this symposium, we are referring to ‘corpse work’ in its broadest sense: cultural, medical or otherwise. As such, we invite papers on themes including, but not limited to:
    • death technologies
    • the presentation of the corpse in media, cinema, literature, gaming, etc
    • work with the deceased
    • the corpse as waste
    • the value of the corpse
    • agency of the deceased
    • toxicity and necrosis
    • trauma, grief, loss and memorialisation
Abstracts of up to 300 words and a biography of no more than 50 words should be submitted to death-and-culture@york.ac.uk by no later than 31 March 2019.
Location: University of York
Admission: Free, booking required.

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