8th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal

12-15 September 2007, Bath, UK

A major multi-disciplinary conference covering all aspects of death, dying and bereavement, DDD8 will draw together established and new scholars and practitioners from around the globe. DDD8 is collaboration between the Centre for Death and Society and the Institute for Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (ICIA) at the University of Bath. For this conference, we aim to bring together scholars and researchers from both of these fields in a way that is rarely realised and invite you to take a full and active part in helping us to achieve that aim.

ICIA is an academic research centre commissioning new arts projects regionally and nationally, and training for artists, arts professionals, academics and educators with an emphasis on interdisciplinary practice. ICIA also present a mix of performances, exhibitions, talks, workshops and classes open to the general public alongside our student community.

DDD is a multi-disciplinary residential conference for anthropologists, archaeologists, art and architectural historians, artists, bereavement counsellors, cultural geographers, deathwork practitioners, historians, literary theorists, medical and health practitioners, palliative care workers, philosophers, psychologists, students of religion, social policy analysts, sociologists and those in the legal professions.

General info

Keynote speakers

Programme

Ethics statement

Booking

Accommodation and conference rates

Arts and Social programme

The City of Bath

Sponsorship (pdf)

2007's conference will be held in the World Heritage City of Bath and a full social and arts programme is planned to complement the conference, including a reception in the beautiful Assembly Rooms.

There are also two exhibitions to complement the conference, Judith Tucker's Resort and Margareta Kern's Clothes for Death . All delegates will have the chance to view these exhibitions as part of the welcome dinner on Wednesday 12 September which takes place at the University of Bath. To read more about the exhibtions and accompanying dinner, visit the Arts and Social Programme pages.

More information will be added to this area as it becomes available. If you have any questions about the conference and cannot see the information you need on these pages, please contact the conference office at infoDDD@bath.ac.uk

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