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4th Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Dying and Death
Wednesday 12th July - Friday 14th July 2006
Mansfield College, Oxford
Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
research and publications project aims to create a
forum for examining the links between living and
dying, and some of the contradictions and
paradoxes which arise that we appear to accept
without question.
Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are
also warmly invited on any of the following
indicative themes (or their combinations):
1. Kinds of Deaths: for instance, euthanasia,
abortion, suicide, homicide, neonatal and infant
death, accidents, natural disasters, sudden death,
terminal illness/death, capital punishment, acts
of terrorism; death of a child, parent, spouse.
2. Philosophical, Ethical and Religious Issues in
Dying and Death ; the nature of dying and death
(e.g. does an aborted foetus die?); philosophies
of dying and death; grounds for justifying and/or
condoning death (e.g., suicide, euthanasia); the
difference between seeking death and facing death
bravely. When is living to be feared more than
death - or vice versa? Facing, or even
choosing, death in order to kill others. Concepts
of afterlife and their influence on the dying,
theologies of death, near death experiences; faith
and secularism in death rituals; the role of hope,
expiation and forgiveness.
3. Bereavement; Grief, loss and anger; 'models'
and theories of grief and their adequacy with
respect to different kinds of deaths; can grief be
shared? Grief counselling and grief therapy; forms
of remembrance, sites of remembrance, what
do they reveal and what might they conceal?
4. The Representation of Dying and Death - art,
all forms of literature, cinema, music, radio and
television; death and dying in children's
literature; children's concepts of mortality,
violence and death.
5. Contradictions and Paradoxes: examples may
include sudden death Vs our ability or desire to
postpone death; horror at genocide Vs our appetite
for films about ending lives in violent ways;
respect for horror and grief Vs the tendency to
wallow in their 'mediatised' forms; terrorism Vs
warfare; being informed Vs being be-sensitised by
the media.
6. Technology, Dying and Death; the impact of
advances in medical technology; social
expectations of medical possibilities; the
double-edged sword - technology as helper Vs
technology as killer (e.g., lethal injection,
vaginal aspiration, gas chambers).
7. The Management of Dying and Death. Hospitals
and the limits of responsibility, e.g. (the
imposition of) intensive care and aggressive
treatment for dying patients; unacknowledged
euthanasia; ageing and dying; care homes or
waiting rooms for death; the hospice movement;
limits to the humanising of death; whose decisions?
8. Legal Issues in Dying and Death; legal
definitions of death, court rulings and decisions,
the right to die, natural death and brain death
statutes, advance directives and living wills;
organ donation, organ transplantation; who 'owns'
the corpse?
Papers are also solicited for special sessions
which will be held in common with a second
research project running at the same time entitled
Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease. When
submitting your abstract, please specify
clearly whether you would like your paper to be
considered for a joint session presentation.
Papers submitted for joint sessions must be
explicitly inter-/multi-disciplinary in nature
and/or show where the possibilities for
inter-disciplinary research and engagement could
be developed.
Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Monday
20th March 2006. If selected for presentation, 8
page draft conference papers should be submitted
by Friday 9th June 2006. Abstracts should
be submitted to the Joint Organising Chairs;
Mira Crouch
School of Sociology
The University of New South Wales
Sydney
Australia
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Freeland
Oxfordshire
United Kingdom
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Asa Kasher
Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Professional
Ethics and Philosophy of Practice
and Professor of Philosophy Tel-Aviv University,
Israel
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Abstracts should be submitted by email in Word,
WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats; alternatively the
abstract may be placed in the body of the email.
All papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be published in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be published in a themed hard copy
volume.
Please note: in keeping with the philosophy for
this project, numbers for the conference will be
capped at 30. All delegates who attend will
present or actively participate in some manner.
The conference is sponsored by
Inter-Disciplinary.Net as part of the 'Probing
the Boundaries' programme of research projects. It
aims to bring together people from different areas
and interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/dd/dd.htm
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/dd/dd4/cfp.html
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