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Conferences
For details of the CDAS seminar series, visit our seminar
page.
For a full list of all activities chronologically, please view our calendar.
To read about past conferences CDAS have been involved in, including
the Death, Dying and Disposal series, visit our past
events pages.
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CDAS conference
CDAS Conference 2012:
Dying in the Digital Age
Link to conference archive page for CDAS conferences 2010 and 2011
Other conferences
02-04.07.12
Cremation & Burial Conference & Exhibition
03-04.07.12
Cruse Bereavement Care Conference
22-24.08.12
Mortality, death and dying
06-08.09.12
Dying and death in 18th-21st Century Europe
25-27.10.12
The art of death and dying
02-03.11.12
The Arts in a Time of Crisis
01-3.02.13
Death in modern Scotland
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CDAS Conference 2012
Dying in the Digital Age: social technologies at end of life
09 June 2012
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute (BRLSI), Bath
The 2011 CDAS Conference, Death & Dying in the Digital Age, was possibly the first ever to bring together computer scientists and death studies researchers. Reflecting the literature, the most coherent body of the 2011 papers referred to post-death phenomena, specifically digital mourning and legacy, and a selection of those papers will appear in a special issue of Bereavement Care in spring 2012.
By contrast, research into how digital technologies affect the interactions and experiences of those near the end of life – the frail elderly, the terminally ill – is much more limited and fragmented. Considerable research has been done on technologies to sustain people’s physical wellbeing toward the end of life, but very little on technologies to sustain their social lives.
2012's Conference will look specifically at social technologies at the end of life, with papers exploring subjects such as 'Social inclusion in care homes using social media technologies', 'Dying, anthropology and new communication media' and 'Technologies for bequeathing of digital assets'.
A draft programme is now available to download here (.pdf)
Informal networking sessions will take place on the Friday and Saturday evenings as well as Sunday morning.
Conference updates will appear here as they occur
Booking is now open for the conference. Download the booking form (.pdf)
External links
All the links below are to external websites and will open in a new window.
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute: Conference venue
City of Bath: Visit Bath website with details of accommodation, places to visit, how to get here etc.
Accommodation: The Visit Bath website has a range of accommodation and offer a room booking service free of charge
Hostels: There are a number of hostels in Bath which offer high quality, low budget accommodation
Bath YMCA: Excellent value for money with gym on site
Bristol Airport: Approximately 1 hour away from Bath City Centre
Parking in Bath: A number of long-stay, short-stay and park and ride car parks close to the city centre
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Other Conferences
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02-04 July 2012
The Hilton Newcastle Gateshead
The dates have now been announced for this well-established conference in 2012, 02-04 July, which this year will take place in Newcastle.
Further details will be made available on the website shortly. In the meantime, you can contact the conference organisers by email.
Email: info@cbce.org.uk (Cremation & Burial Conference & Exhibition)
conference@cremation.org.uk (The Cremation Society)
fbcasec@btconnect.com (Federation of Burial & Cremation Authorities)
Web: www.cbce.org.uk
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03-04 July 2012
Warwick University
A two-day exploration of grief and bereavement issues, featuring world class speakers alongside a packed programme of seminars, workshops and networking opportunities.
Keynote speakers are:
Atle Dyregrov - Complicated grief in children
Colin Murray Parkes - Extending bereavement theory practice to global war and terrorism
Dorothy Rowe - Bereavement in old age
Henk Schut - The efficacy of grief interventions: critical issues and strategic reflections
Elaine Kasket - Continuing bonds in the virtual world
Ted Bowman - Reflections on caring: essential facets of bereavement car
There is a huge variety of workshops to choose from:
http://www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk/
For a full programme and booking form visit:
http://www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk/Conference.pdf
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22-24 August 2012
University of Helsinki, Finland
This international and interdisciplinary symposium addresses broad questions connected to mortality, death and dying from various philosophical and social-scientific perspectives.
The symposium is part of the Human Mortality project (2011-2013) which aims to discuss death, dying and mortality in an interdisciplinary network. The project is funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation as part of the Argumenta funding program. Argumenta projects are intended to stimulate dialogue between researchers in different fields of science on significant current subjects of research. The project brings together scholars from different fields to discuss topics, such as: How have definitions of death changed? In what ways is the meaning of death changing? Why is death studies a current topic today?
Keynote lectures are given by Professor Stefan Timmermans (UCLA) and
Professor Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University).
We welcome submissions for papers from a broad range of disciplines and fields of research. Approaches to mortality, death and dying can include, but are not limited to:
- Philosophy of death, mortality and human finitude
- Demographical studies on death
- Socioeconomic approaches to death
- Politics of death
- Death studies in social sciences
- Death and dying as part of an international law
- Death and dying at wars
- Death and environmental questions
Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief biography (max. 200 words) to Outi Hakola (outi.j.hakola@helsinki.fi) not later than 16 March, 2012.
More information:
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/mortality-death-dying.html
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06-08 September 2012
Alba Iulia, Romania
On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to attend the fifth edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference (ABBDD05). The conference is organised by Alba County Council, “1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, Romania and the National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia, Romania in partnership with Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association and the Romanian Association for Death Studies
The main aim of this conference is to bring together historians, sociologists, psychologists, and physicians from all over the Europe and to attract original papers on the following topics:
- Cultural history of death (history, art, philosophy, music, sociology);
- New ritualisations of death in the 21st century;
- Bereavement in modern and post-modern society; End of life and palliative care;
- Suicide, euthanasia and the law;
- Definitions of death in terms of biomedicine;
- Bodily disposal: burial/ cremation;
- Religion and the meaning of death.
Authors should submit an abstract before 20 June, 2012 at the following addresses:
mrotar2000@yahoo.com
adriana.teodorescu@gmail.com
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
The costs of accommodation will be covered by the organisers (meals, hotel accommodation, official reception), except for the travel expenses that will have to be covered by the participants themselves.
If your paper is accepted for presentation/publication in the conference proceedings, there is a publication fee: 30 EUR per each accepted paper.
For further information as it appears, visit:
http://romaniandeathcremation.blogspot.com/2012/02/call-for-papers-abdd05.html
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25-27 October 2012
University of Houston
The University of Houston Libraries, in partnership with the Blaffer Art Museum, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the Department for Hispanic Studies, the Honors College and School of Art, will host a three day symposium titled "The Art of Death and Dying" on October 25-27, 2012.
We welcome scholars in all disciplines to submit paper proposals on literary, visual, and performing arts topics related to death and dying. Topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to:
- Literary, performing, or visual depictions or interpretations of death and dying
- Memorializing of the dead in art and performance
- Artifacts of death and dying as represented in archival or museum collections
- Artistic depictions of the after life
- Cultural death rituals
- Cultural expressions of mourning
- Death and dying in Latin American arts and culture
- Readings of original creative material on the subject
- Performances of material on the subject
- Presentation of visual material on the subject
- Memorial architecture
- Cemetery design
- Analysis of an artist's, performer's or writer's work related to the subject
Proposals related to death in Latin American art and visual culture are encouraged. The organizers will accept presentations in both Spanish and English.
Papers will be selected based upon the quality of the proposal (including merit of the topic, clarity of expression, and relevance to the conference theme), the proposal’s ability to provoke critical exchange and debate, and opportunities for interaction between participants that will enable attendees to engage in a truly interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and viewpoints.
Presenters will be afforded the opportunity for their symposium paper/presentation to be published in the Texas Digital Library; http://www.tdl.org/#feature1
Papers will be twenty minutes in length and will be followed by ten minutes of discussion. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted on the symposium website.
Web: http://artofdeathanddying.blogspot.com/
The deadline for submissions is 01 May, 2012.
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02-03 November 2012
St. Christopher’s Hospice
This International Symposium aims to examine the role of the arts during a time of unprecedented change and challenge.
History shows that during times of complex change and increasing uncertainty, the creative arts can often act as both a catalyst and as a context to address crisis and to unravel and make sense of major societal issues. This symposium will provide a forum in order to explore current arts practice, education and research in end of life care. Leading practitioners, educationalists and researchers will come together with those with an interest in the field to share and understand contemporary thinking around a range of creative arts disciplines in the framework of end of life care. The aim will be to formulate an effective response to the increasing cut backs and the diminishing support for creative arts services during a time of increasing financial austerity. The central question for debate will be ‘Can the creative arts not only offer a cost effective and dynamic response, but also a fundamental response, to both living and dying in a changing world?’
This International symposium will offer opportunities for debate, dialogue and forward planning through:
- Examining innovative responses from arts services to the current financial crisis
- Re-defining the possibilities for the arts in End of Life health and social care, including dementia and work with older people
- Examining and relating policy, theory and practice
- Exploring the potential and possibility for the arts during a time of change and exploring competences needed for artists to work successfully within a changing world.
We are searching for successful stories and projects about how artists are adapting their services in order to deliver more useful possibilities for those affected by end of life issues within a changing world. The deadline for entries is 01 June 2012.
For further information, visit the St. Christopher’s Hospice website
Web: www.stchristophers.org.uk/education/course/the-arts-in-a-time-of-crisis-living-and-dying-creatively-in-a-changing-world
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Royal Loss: Untimely deaths, public and private mourning, and the monarchs who never were
06 November 2012
York Univeristy
November 6th 2012 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, son and heir of James I & VI. Describing the death of the 18 year old prince, Roy Strong remarked that 'the sense of tragic loss at the time was such that he was to remain for long an ideal monarch England never had'. The anniversary of his death will be marked by an exhibition this winter at the National Portrait Gallery in London, 'The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart'. Significantly there is a current display at the NPG which focuses on the life and death of another heir to the throne of England who predeceased their father, Princess Charlotte of Wales. 'Queens in Waiting: Charlotte and Victoria', details the life of George IV's daughter, and the public shock and outpouring of grief at her death in childbirth at the age of 21. It also conveys the dynastic crisis that ensued, as well as the impact of the dead Princess's legacy upon her eventual successor, Victoria. As the deaths of Prince Henry and Princess Charlotte, as well as that of Princess Diana in modern times, demonstrate, untimely royal deaths have held both political and cultural significance in this country. In fact Royal deaths throughout history in England and elsewhere have resonated on both public and private levels both for contemporaries and succeeding generations.
This one-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the rich and diverse topic of Royal death, loss and commemoration, and is open to applications discussing monarchies of any period and cultural and geographical background. Suggested topics may include but are by no means limited to;
- Royal Funerals
- Royal mourning and mourners - public and private royal grief
- Royal memorials (structural, musical artistic or literary) and Funeral monuments
- Epitaphs and Biographies in response to a royal death
- The death of royal infants and children
- The death of an heir to the throne
- Sudden, unexpected royal death - responses to, and fear of death from acute royal illness
- Progress and responses to long drawn out royal illness and death
- Responses to royal assassination
- Responses to royal execution
- Feelings of lost hope or potential and 'what if' myths of Royal lives that were cut short
- Royal widows and widowers
- Commemoration ceremonies - sermons, music, rituals etc.
- Apportioning blame for a royal death
- Dynastic and succession crises, precipitated by royal death
- Perceptions of Royal afterlife - for example apotheosis painting or literature, myths and ghosts, personal and public preparation of a royal individual for an afterlife
- Portrayals of royal deaths in popular culture and later popular history
- Forgotten Royal deaths
Proposals of 300-500 words should be sent to Sarah Betts at royallossyork2012@gmail.com by 31st July 2012
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Death in Modern Scotland, 1855 – 1955:
Beliefs, attitudes and practices
01- 03 Feb 2013
New College, University of Edinburgh
'There remains a huge agenda for death research, offering a unique vantage point for the study of Scottish history' (Professor Elaine McFarland of Glasgow Metropolitan University, 2004). Since those words were written, there have been increasing signs of interest, research and publications in death studies in Scotland.
This conference invites those who are researching death from whatever disciplinary perspective to offer papers whose total range will illuminate one hundred years of death in modern Scotland. These hundred years began with the passing of the Registration Act and the Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act in 1855 and end with the opening of Daldowie Crematorium in 1955.
Plenary speakers include:
Professor Elaine McFarland, Dr Elizabeth Cumming and Professor Hilary J. Grainger
Papers will be particularly welcome on the subjects of:
- death, grief and mourning;
- funeral rites and rituals; customs and costume;
- demographic and statistical interpretations; registration of death;
- public health and medicine;
- death, poverty, gender and social class
- death, urban and rural comparisons
- burial and cremation;
- the development of funeral directing services;
- theology, liturgy and funeral ministry;
- monuments and memorialisation;
- issues of architecture and landscape design;
- the folklore of death; ghost narratives and beliefs; spiritualism;
- death in war-time;
- death, grief, mourning;
- death in literature and the arts;
- death and Scottish law;
- violent death; the death penalty;
- disasters: air, rail, sea and industrial;
Established research and work-in-progress welcomed.
Abstracts of 200 words maximum may be sent to Peter C. Jupp, Braddan House, High Street, Duddington, Stamford, Lincs, PE9 3QE
Email: peterc.jupp@btinternet.com or peter.c.jupp@ed.ac.uk
A follow-up call for papers with full conference details and names of plenary speakers will be published soon.
Revd Dr Peter C. Jupp,
Honorary Fellow,
Department of Divinity,
University of Edinburgh, UK.
Conference Committee: the Revd Dr Peter C. Jupp (Department of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, Chair); Dr Marion Bowman (Chair, Religion Department, Open University), Dr Susan Buckham (Independent Researcher; Kirkyard Consulting), Ms Nicola Davidson (Divinity Department, University of Edinburgh); Dr Ronnie Scott (Glasgow).
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