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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: [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask] For any preliminary question relating to papers-posters (but not on accommodation) contact, Prof. Douglas Davies: [log in to unmask] 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