The Centre for Death and Society (CDAS) is an internationally recognised research centre focusing on the interdisciplinary social aspects of death, dying and bereavement.

The centre has announced the theme of its 2020 conference and will be focusing on the relationships between mortality and technology in the 21st century.

In the Year 2020: Death, Dying, Technology and Human Mortality

In a world… where over the last twenty-years, first world popular culture's interest in human mortality significantly expanded and death and dying achieved new levels of media attention....What has the last twenty-years of death, dying and technology produced for human mortality? And what might the next twenty-years hold? What role does technology now play in the everyday experiences of human mortality?

The June 2020 Centre for Death and Society Annual Conference will focus on Death, Dying, Technology and Human Mortality and what the discovery and re-discovery of human technology means for power, sovereignty, bioethics, the rule of law, and most importantly - death and dying.

Details

The conference has now been postponed and will now take place on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 June 2021.

The conference will be held at the University of Bath and further details will be shared closer to the date of the event.