CDAS Conference 2015 Death & its Futures

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1 CDAS Conference 2015 Death & its Futures June 2015 University of Bath Programme Birthdays and anniversaries are a good occasion to consider the past and look to the future, to evaluate what we have been and done, and to plan what we wish to be and do a time to reflect and to make resolutions. So CDAS s 10th anniversary prompts us to consider trends and future projections of how societies manage death, and specifically to consider the current state of death studies research and teaching. We welcome you to join in our collective reflection on death and its futures.

2 Day 1: Friday 5th June 2015 Time What Where 09:00 Registration CB L2 foyer 09:45 Welcome Tony Walter, Director, Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath Plenary 1 Chair: Tony Walter All Things Dead are New Again: Debating Death s Future(s) since 1970 John Troyer, University of Bath Parallel session A Research Agendas Chair: Julie Seymour Death and its futures beyond the global North: exploring responses to family deaths in urban Senegal Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Open University, Sophie Bowlby, Ruth Evans & Josephine Wouango, University of Reading The Law and the Dead: Time for a re-evaluation? Heather Conway, Queen s University, Belfast Rethinking End of Life Policy/Practice Chair: Nina Jakoby Redefining religion and belief in end-of-life policies Panagiotis Pentaris, Goldsmiths, University of London Constructing choice in death and dying Kristian Pollock, University of Nottingham Break CB L2 foyer Parallel session B Death Studies past, present and future Chair: Clare Gittings A Brief History of Death Helen Frisby, University of the West of England Death & its Futures: Programme Page 2

3 Good Mourning: Examining the Archaeological Evidence of our Earliest Treatment of the Dead Sarah Schwarz, University of Southampton The future of death in the past Julie Rugg, University of York Innovative practice and engagement Chair: Malcolm Johnson In the Face of Death Ashley Rudolph & Nikki Salkeld, University of Falmouth Online journalism and the future of memorialisation - The Kiss Nightclub Fire case Andréia de Sousa Martins, University of Bath Technology and the funeral Industry: Current engagements and possible futures Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen & Tamara Kohn, University of Melbourne Lunch CB L2 Foyer Poster session Posters will be on display in the L2 foyer of the Chancellor s Building throughout the conference. This session is your opportunity to talk to the authors Parallel session C Public engagement Chair: Joshua Graham Tea, Cake and Empathy: Reflecting on the experiences of Death Café in Hampstead, London UK Josefine Speyer, Psychotherapist and Natural Death Centre, & Sharon Young, Kingston University From cultural engagement to classroom: Teaching anthropological thinking on personhood and alterity through places of death Hannah Rumble, University of Exeter Research Agendas Chair: Lisa McCormick It's like a grown-up Moggie! Continuing bonds and pop culture Annika Jonsson, Karlstad University Death & its Futures: Programme Page 3

4 15.30 Break CB L2 foyer 16:00 CDAS is 10! The Edge Welcome The Genesis of CDAS Weston Studio Glennys Howarth, Founding Director, CDAS When worlds collide: policy & practice vs research & scholarship Weston Studio Allan Kellehear, CDAS Director Film CDAS is 10! Weston studio Andréia de Sousa Martins, PhD Student, CDAS A review of our first 10 years and vision for the next Weston studio Tony Walter, Director, CDAS CDAS is 10! Exhibition and networking Weston studio and foyer CDAS is 10! closes Conference dinner Wessex House restaurant Speaker Colin Murray Parkes Close and depart Death & its Futures: Programme Page 4

5 Day 2: Saturday 6th June 2015 Time What Where 09:15 Registration CB L2 foyer 09:45 Welcome & housekeeping Parallel session D Re-thinking End of Life Policy & Practice Chair: Rhona Nicol Bereavement support in areas of deprivation and beyond Shirley Potts, Child Bereavement UK Understanding labour standards from within a study of parental bereavement Mary Ellen MacDonald, McGill University Innovative teaching Chair: Hannah Rumble Bones without Barriers: The social impact of digging (and teaching with) the dead Duncan Sayer, University of Central Lancashire Death Education in the shade of the Modern Burial Movements Carnival Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf, University of Gdansk Life Lessons: teaching young people about death in rural England Judith Wester & Kathryn Walker, CEDAR: Community Education in Death Awareness & Resources CIC Break CB L2 foyer Keynote Chair: Tony Walter The Global Future of Dying David Clark, University of Glasgow Lunch CB L2 foyer Parallel session E Death & its Futures: Programme Page 5

6 21 st Century Futures: Social Diversity Chair: Annika Jonsson Sweetening Death: Shifting Landscapes of the Role of Food in Grief and Mourning Candi Cann, Baylor University, USA Beyond Elegy: Bereavement, Mourning and the Creative Arts Anne Baden-Daintree, University of Bristol Christopher Hitchens: Towards a Secular-Humanist Public Dying Michael Brennan, Liverpool Hope University 21 st Century Futures: Funeral Ceremony Chair: Helen Frisby The role of the funeral celebrant - past, present and future John Valentine, Funeral Celebrant The Humanist Funeral Practitioner's Perspective Simon Allen, Independent Humanist Celebrant The dividualisation of the dead: future spaces for resisting abjection Cate Thomas, Funeral Celebrant Break CB L2 Foyer Plenary 2 Chair: John Troyer Responding to the Reaper: Multiple Modernities Tony Walter, University of Bath Discussion Chair: John Troyer Close and depart Death & its Futures: Programme Page 6