> Folks:
>
> I am organizing a session for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology
> Association's annual meeting in late May of 2002 (to be held as a part of
> the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Toronto, Ontario).
> The session is called "The Undiscovered Country: Social and Cultural
> Aspects of Death and Dying."  I still have space for a couple of papers.
> Thus, if you are interested in proposing a paper for the session, please
> e-mail me an abstract as soon as possible.  If you need further
> information, the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association's website
> on the conference is at: http://alcor.concordia.ca/~csaa1/eng/confe.htm
> The Congress website is at:
> http://www.hssfc.ca/english/congress/congress.html
> The conference runs from May 29 - June 1, 2002.  Toronto is Canada's
> largest city, with all of the amenities (and some of the problems) which
> accompany such a dense concentration of humanity.
>
> The session proposal is as follows:
>
> THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF DEATH AND DYING
> Organizer: Ivan Emke
> It goes without saying that the crossing over from life to death is a
> centrally important moment in our own lives (albeit one which may receive
> little prior contemplation). In addition, how we anticipate, acknowledge,
> cope with and remember the deaths of those around us is of great social
> and cultural significance. This session will focus on how human societies
> deal with the social ruptures which are caused by death. The papers can
> cover a wide range of research areas, including the place of death in our
> culture, rituals of remembrance, issues related to hospice care, trends in
> funeral and memorial practices, historical or cross-cultural studies of
> death and dying, the analysis of professional groups who work with the
> dying or the dead, as well as other cognate topics.
>
> I welcome any and all replies!
>
>
>
> Ivan Emke                                     709-637-6200, ext. 6322
> Associate Professor                           709-639-8125 (fax)
> Chair, Social/Cultural Studies                        [log in to unmask]
> Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
> Corner Brook, NF
> A2H 6P9
>