The Ninth Death, Dying and Disposal Conference (DDD9) will be held at Durham
University from September 9th-12th 2009 under the auspices of the
University’s Centre for Death and Life Studies (Director Prof. Douglas Davies)
and the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies. This international
conference, held every two years since 1993, will continue to bring together
academics and practitioners from many of the Arts-Humanities, Social-
Sciences and Medicine-Palliative Care fields.
The overarching theme of the conference is emotion and identity. Because
emotion currently provides an attractive frame, and identity a valuable focus,
for research on human experience and cultural life, proposals are invited that
relate these topics to death, dying and disposal, drawing upon the resources
of the disciplines embraced by the DDD.
This conference will provide opportunity for papers and posters to be
presented. Abstracts for papers (maximum of 250 words) and outlines of
poster-topics (150 words) are now invited by January 1st 2009. Whenever
possible, complementary contributions from different fields will be distributed
throughout conference sessions to maximise exposure to disciplines. All paper
or poster submissions, will be managed through the Durham University
conference service at email to which they should be sent:
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Details concerning conference and accommodation will be available on-line in
January. If you wish you to register your interest now for that information
once it is available then please do so on the same address at
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For any preliminary question relating to papers-posters (but not on
accommodation) contact,
Prof. Douglas Davies:
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0191 3343943
Attached is the full call for papers, please feel free to circulate this to anyone
you think may be interested.
Many thanks
Caron
Caron Staley
Centre Manager, Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath
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