The Dismal Conference season gets under way on Saturday week with Death Day at the University of Winchester — fifty quid incl lunch.
If you’re interested, the web link is here.
And this is the programme:
08.45-09.30 Registration (with refreshments)
09.30-09.45 Opening Welcome
09.45-10.45 Keynote 1 Morris (ICCM)
10.45-11.15 Morning Coffee & Biscuits
11.15-12.45 Session 1
Kahl, Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė & Hedges (Transcending Death)
Schaeffer, Brew,& Bath (Interpreting Cemeteries)
Poore, Berman & King (Death in Literature)
12.45- 13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.45 Keynote 2 Linzey (Animal Ethics)
14.45-15.45 Session 2
Khalsa & Mogra (Death in Sikhism & Islam)
Spurgeon (Pet Death Workshop)
Brown & Talbot (Displaying Death)
Rumble (Natural Burial Film & Workshop)
15.45-16.15 Afternoon Tea & Cakes
16.15-17.15 Session 3
Harvey & Norgrove (Death & Health)
Hansford (Performing Death Workshop)
Jenner & McLachlan (Death & Humour)
17.15-17.30 Closing Thanks
17.30-18.00 Optional book reading by Michael Berman: The Island of Skeletons
looks totally unmissable Charles, unmissable indeed – I’ll be at an auction at the other end of the Country with some living folk
Wish I could be there. I’m attending Digital Death Day in Mountain View, CA this Friday:
http://ddd11.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=event_reminder&utm_term=event_title
Well, ain’t this just the year of digital death conferences! http://www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/news/conferences/index.html