Relating to Death seminar
Friday 16 May 2008
Morgan Centre, University of Manchester

Registration is now open for this seminar which will explore how we relate 
to, and how we live in the face of, death. We will take an 
interdisciplinary approach, with papers from historical, anthropological 
and sociological perspectives. 

We will ask how death is incorporated into life in different ways and 
contexts, and will explore the implications of these understandings of 
death for research about personal life and for theories of relatedness and
connectedness.

Papers:

Jenny Hockey, University of Sheffield - ‘“He was my dad and I wanted him 
here with me”: Media of relatedness and the informal disposal of human 
ashes’

Robin Wooffitt, University of York - ‘The Language of Mediums: The social
organisation of spirit communication in contemporary mediumship’

Sasha Handley, University of Manchester - ‘Ghost Stories and the Mortuary
Culture of Enlightenment England’

Brian Heaphy, University of Manchester - ‘Death and the Politics of 
Personal Life’

Fee: £30 (full); £15 (concession - students or unwaged).

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/events/2008/relating-to-death/

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