Two hundred of the world’s
leading experts in death, dying and disposal will meet at a conference
at the
University of Bath this week to present and discuss their latest research.
The conference, which takes place from 15-18 September, will
be by far the largest and most international of the seven conferences
on
The
Social
Context of Death, Dying and Disposal held since 1993, reflecting an increasing
worldwide interest in how human society deals with mortality.
Topics to be presented at the conference include:
- Changing trends in funerals and memento mori
- Death is the new sex in popular TV
- Roadside memorials to the dead
- Photographing corpses and death art
- Death customs and practices from around the world
- Children and young people and death
- The social (and legal) life of corpses
- Organ retention, donation and trafficking
- Architectural challenges of cemeteries and crematoria
A full list
of papers and abstracts are available on the conference
website. An exhibition of work by award-winning Canadian artist Barb Hunt will
be taking place in the University Claverton Rooms Foyer whilst the exhibition
is going on.
The installation reflects the artist's long-term interest in the rituals
that surround death and mourning, particularly those of Newfoundland
where she lives.
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