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.

Email: death-and-culture@york.ac.uk