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Past ConferencesThe Social Context of Death Dying and Disposal seriesThis conference covers all aspects of death, dying and bereavement. It is a multi-disciplinary residential conference for a whole range of academics and practioners in the areas surrounding death, dying and disposal. The conference has been held every two years since 1993, with the most recent at the University of Bath in 2007, with more than 200 delegates from 23 different countries attending and generated a great deal of media attention. Details of previous conferences are held below. if you would like more information about any of these, please get in touch. The location of DDD11 will be announced during 2012. DDD10: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2011 DDD9: University of Durham 2009 DDD8: University of Bath 2007 DDD7: University of Bath 2005 DDD6: University of York 2002 DDD5: University of London 2000 DDD4: Glasgow University 1998 DDD3: Cardiff University 1997 DDD2: University of Sussex 1995 DDD1: Oxford University 1993 |
Conferences links
The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal DDD1 - 1993
CDAS Conference 2011: Death & Dying in the Digital Age The Second International Conference on Public Health and Palliative Care International Symposium on Roadside Memorials A Good Send Off: Local, Regional & National Variations in how the British Dispose of their Dead 1st International Conference on Public Health and Palliative Care Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (2008) Compassionate Communities: topˆ |
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CDAS is also involved in a number of other conferences, members are regularly asked to contribute keynote talks on a whole range of subjects, some of which are listed below.
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Death Down UnderUniversity of Sydney The University of Sydney, in association with the University of Canterbury and the University of Otago, is pleased to announce that the inaugural ‘Death Down Under’ conference for Death Studies will take place on the 27th and 28th of June 2011 at the University of Sydney, Australia. This conference aims to promote the dissemination of social aspects of death studies research in Australia, New Zealand, and the wider Pacific region. This two-day conference will provide a forum for academics and practitioners to share their research and experience, and to develop networks that can lead to collaborative research endeavours. As such, this conference aims to be invigorating and dynamic, and will include keynote speakers, a panel discussion, parallel paper sessions and social events. Call for papers closes 31 January 2011 For more information and to submit an abstract, please see our website: CDAS Visiting Professor Glennys Howarth and CDAS Associate Sheila Harper are onthe orgainsing committee for this conference
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The Second International Conference on Public Health and Palliative CareDhaka, Kerala, India Organised jointly by Bangabandu Sheikh Mujid Medical University, Dhaka Institute of Palliative Medicine, Kerala, India and University of Bath, UK The public health movement in palliative care has its roots in experimental community programs that begun in Australia, Africa, Canada, India, Spain and South America in the late 1990s. Since that period, interest in the basic concepts and practices of a public health approach – also known as health promoting palliative care is spreading to all corners of the global palliative care community. Concepts of prevention, harm reduction and health and death education are materialising in palliative care practices in the form of community development and service partnerships. The conference will divide its activities between invited keynote speakers, volunteered papers, panel sessions and ample discussion time. This is an international, interdisciplinary conference that welcomes all professionals involved in the public health movement in palliative care. Day One: The Sheraton Hotel Conference Centre, Dhaka The programme will shortly be available, and you can now access information about accommodation, travel and registration from the website. |
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International Symposium on Roadside Memorials
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| 08.45 - 09.15 | Registration |
| 09.15-09.30 | Opening introduction: Dr Una MacConville, University of Bath, UK |
| 09.30-09.55 | The origins of marking death in open place: early medieval wayside crosses, Heather King, Archaeologist, Department of the Environment, Ireland |
| 09.55-10.20 | Death markers in the open: some examples from Co. Wicklow, Ireland Chris Corlett, Archaeologist, Department of the Environment, Ireland |
| 10.20-10.45 | A living monument—a topiary roadside memorial in Co. Kildare, Ireland. James Eogan, Archaeologist, National Roads Authority. |
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee/tea |
| 11.15 - 11.40 | Contested Invisibility—roadside memorials as the result of conflict in the border region of North West Ireland. Mhairi Sutherland, Graduate School of Arts and Media, National College of Art, Ireland |
| 11.40 - 12.05 | Commemorating a National Death in Local Japan: using memorials to make claims about identity and history Michael Wert, Historian, Marquette University, USA |
| 12.05 - 12.30 | Modern trailside memorials along the Camino de Santiago, Spain. Pat Holland, Tipperary County Council, Ireland. |
12.30 - 12.55
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Crosses and (the Absence of) Religion: Roadside Memorials in the Czech Republic Olga Nesporova, The Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
| 12.55 - 13.55 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 14.25 | The material culture of Dutch roadside memorials: what do they tell us? Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote, Department of Cultural Geography, University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 14.25 - 14.50 | Deathscapes in British Columbia: Road Warriors and Teen Angels John Belshaw, North Island College and Diane Purvey, Thompsons River University, Canada |
14.50 - 15.15
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Memorials on the Road: Stickers for the Dead in Southern California Pamela Roberts, Talina Villao and Tracy Carlsen, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA |
| 15.15 - 16.10 | Coffee/tea |
| 16.10 - 16.35 | Remember me: here, there and everywhere Gerri Excell, University of Reading, UK |
| 16.35 - 17.00 | 'Dead end?: The Future of Roadside Memorial Research' Jennifer Clark, University of Nw England, New South Wales, Australia |
All welcome but places are limited so please contact Una MacConville on (00 353) 86 8175530 or at u.macconville@bath.ac.uk to book a place or for further information.
A small fee of 20 euro will be charged to cover tea/coffee and admin costs. Lunch available from a number of cafes/restaurants on the UCD campus.
Saturday 19 June 2010, 9:30-17:00
at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, Bath, UK
What is a good send off? A good send off in Stornaway might not be at all good in Surbiton. The exclusion of women from the burial ceremony in some Welsh valley funerals would appal some women in Fife who help lower the coffin into the grave. Funerals in Totnes are typically very different from funerals in Tottenham. And that’s just for starters – when we add in the customs and practices of those who have migrated to the British Isles from elsewhere, the picture becomes ever more complex.
On June 19, CDAS is running a one-day conference in Bath titled ‘A Good Send Off: Local, Regional & National Variations in how the British Dispose of their Dead’. The aim of the conference is to ask whether there is any such thing as a British way of death, or whether there is actually a mosaic of practices. And if there is a mosaic, what patterns might be discernable within it?
Explaining difference
Social scientists have usually tried to explain differences in funeral practice within any one country in certain ways.
One is to look at social class and ethnicity. Working, middle and upper class funerals show clear differences. Likewise, different ethnic group and religions produce a staggering variety, as any funeral director in a large metropolis, and especially London, knows. But there is also evidence that even within one social class, and even within the populations whose roots in the UK go back centuries, there is considerable variety, and that variety seems to be, in part, geographical. Middle class funerals I have attended in Aberdeen and West Yorkshire are not quite like those I more regularly attend in the south of England. Different parts of the UK have very distinct religious histories – the five hundred year old echoes of the varied Protestant histories of Scotland, Wales and England are still heard in funerals today.
If some social scientists look to social class and ethnicity to explain diversity, others look to modernity. In this story of modernisation, people once lived in face-to-face village communities, where local people laid out the dead, the local carpenter made the coffin, and the village bier used. But with the modern urban world people came increasingly to rely on professionals – doctors, nurses, funeral directors – to manage the processes of dying and the funeral. Municipalities largely took responsibility for burial away from the local church, and promoted cremation. In this view, any remaining local variations, or newly imported ethnic and religious practices, will sooner or later wither in the face of the powerful standardising forces of urbanisation, professionalisation, secularisation, modernisation, and possibly Americanisation.
Aim of the conference
The conference will try to sort out which of these pictures is the more accurate. Are there enduring local and regional differences? Or do these inevitably wither in the face of a standardised modernity? In other words, do history and geography still count?
The conference will therefore not look at the new varieties of funeral practice introduced by those who have arrived in the UK since the second half of the twentieth century, nor at social class differences. Nor will we look at how Britain differs from other countries, even though international differences in funeral culture and organisation are substantial. Important though these all are, they are for another day, and perhaps another conference, or conferences!
We received far more offers of papers for the conference than we anticipated, so there will be two parallel sessions running through most of the day. The perspectives underlying the papers include history (cultural, legal, medical), geography, folklore, theology and religious studies, sociology, anthropology, English literature, and archaeology. Most papers will be given by academic researchers, some by practitioners in the funeral industry. We hope to have a panel of industry professionals discussing their perceptions of regional differences. We expect the speakers will be complemented by a diverse audience of scholars, practitioners and the public, able to contribute their own knowledge, comments and ideas to a lively day.
Click here for programme, and abstracts.
To book, simply download our booking form and post it back to us.
The conference will be held in the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute (BRLSI), located in Queens Square in the centre of historic Georgian Bath (car park nearby, Bath Spa station 10 mins walk, Bristol Airport 1 hour). The cost will be £25 (includes coffee and a light lunch). For those staying in Bath, there will be opportunities to socialise informally over a drink (Friday evening) or meal (Saturday evening).
Please check this page for conference updates.
For information about the venue, local area and accommodation, see the following websites:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute
16&17 January 2009
Calicut, Kerala, India
The public health movement in palliative care has its roots in experimental community programmes that begun in Australia, Africa, Canada, India, Spain and South America in the late 1990s. Since that period, interest in the basic concepts and practices of a public health approach – also known as health promoting palliative care – is spreading to all corners of the global palliative care community. Concepts of prevention, harm reduction and health and death education are materialising in palliative care practices in the form of community development and service partnerships.
This conference will draw together the diverse public health experiments and practices from around the world to discuss and evaluate ongoing value and contribution of this form of palliative care practice. The conference will divide its activities between invited conceptual papers, volunteered posters describing practice, round table discussion groups and a final panel session on future directions. This is an interdisciplinary conference that welcomes all professionals in medicine and health care concerned with palliative care. Don’t work alone anymore. Come and meet like-minded colleagues and let us develop this exciting approach together.
CALL FOR POSTERS:
The conference organisers wish to attract posters concerned with examples of public health practices in palliative care. Closing date for abstracts for these posters will be August 1st, 2008. Abstracts should be sent to Dr Libby Sallnow. These can be sent electronically to: pubhealthpallcare@googlemail.com
Professor Allan Kellehear was the co-organiser for this conference
05-07 September 2008
National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia, Romania
The aim of this conference is to discuss the different aspects of death and dying in Europe from 1700 to the present and to promote and inter-disciplinary dialogue between different branches of science (history, anthropology, sociology, psychology and medicine.) Eastern and Western European patterns of death and dying will be considered, compared and analysed.
The conference will also look to encourage the study of issues around death and dying in Romania, a country with unique views on dealing with death which include the difficulty in discussing cremation and euthanasia with the Romanian Orthodox Church and the slow development of hospice and palliative care services.
Contributors include Glennys Howarth and Tony Walter from the Centre for Death & Society, alongside Peter Jupp, founding co-editor of Mortality, Marco Marzono and Enrico Cazzaniga from Italy and Toader Nicoara from Romania. Participants also come from the Czech Republic, Holland, Poland and the Republic of Moldova.
Selected papers will be revised for publication in the form of an edited volume.
04-06 September 2008
University of the West of England, Bristol
The 37th Conference of the British Society of Gerontology is to be hosted at the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol this September.
Keynote conference speakers this year are:
| Miriam Bernard Professor of Social Gerontology at Keele University |
Sustainable futures and the development of new retirement villages |
| Graham Rowles Director, Graduate Centre for Gerontology, University of Kentucky |
The meaning of place in old age: observations of the changing relationship of elders to the environment |
| Alex Kalache Former Director of the World Health Organizations' Ageing Programme |
Ageing worldwide - have we noticed? |
| Tony Benn | Conference dinner speaker |
CDAS speakers were Prof. Malcolm Johnson and PhD student Beatrice Godwin.
04 September 2008
University of Teeside
The aim of the conference is to explore how care for individuals approaching the end of their life might be improved through adopting a community development and public health focus.
Speakers
The keynote address was given by Professor Allan Kellehear, University of Bath, author of Compassionate Cities, Routledge (2005)
Dr Eugene Milne, Assistant Regional Director of Public Health (Strategy) for the Regional Government Office North East, will speak on the new Regional Public Health Strategy, which, for the first time, prioritises end of life issues and argues for the creation of a Charter for End of Life Care.
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Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK Tel 01225 386949 | Email cdas@bath.ac.uk Last update: 12 September, 2011 © 2006 University of Bath |