Dear All

The next BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement symposium will be a joint event with the BSA's Violence and Society study group.  It will take place on Friday 25th January 2019 at the University of Salford and the theme is Death and Violence. 

The call for abstracts for the symposium is now out and we are inviting academics and practitioners to submit abstracts on the theme of violence in relation to death, dying, and bereavement.  We are particularly keen to encourage a broad and diverse set of papers that engage with (but are not limited to) the following issues:

 Death, violence and inequalities 
 Political violence and mortality  
 Death and displacement 
 Death and violence in popular cultures 
 ‘Dark’ spaces and violent death/s  Digital technology, violent deaths and voyeurism 
 ‘Bad’ (violent) deaths  
 Bereavement, trauma and memorialization following violent death 
 Methodological and ethical issues in the study of violence and death 

Submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to [log in to unmask] by midnight GMT Monday 22nd October 2018. With your submission please include your name, affiliation and contact details. Presentations will be 20 minutes long with additional time for questions.

This symposium will be organised by the British Sociological Association Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement study group (DDB) and the BSA Violence and Society study group. More details about the call for papers, registration, and the respective study groups can be found here: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/death-and-violence/ 

Best wishes,

Julie Ellis and Laura Towers

DDB co-convenors ([log in to unmask])

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