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Hi all Just a reminder about this event,– it is free for PhD students to attend (salaried staff £80 reg fee) – registration closes on 4 January 2016. Important information —————————— Submission Deadline: 14th December 2015 Notification of Acceptance: 21st December 2015 Registration by 4th January 2016 Registration now open at http://online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=6&catid=678&prodvarid=291 Full programme and more information: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/futures-of-the-end-of-life/<http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/study/history-art-design/events/diplomacy-by-design> From: Drinkall, Pennie [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 04 December 2015 14:52 To: Alberto Frigo; Buscher, Monika; Coulton, Paul; Elaine Kasket; Ellis, Selina; Felicia Knowles; Fiorenza Gamba; [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>; Karina Croucher; PhD Design; Sas, Corina; Stacey Pitsillides; Wendy Moncur ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>); Woodhead, Linda Subject: REMINDER: Call for Papers/Participants/Registration - Futures of the End of Life: Mobilities of Loss & Commemoration in the Digital Economy 21-22 Jan, Lancaster Apologies for cross postings – please forward to colleagues who may be interested – thank you. Futures of the End of Life: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration in the Digital Economy ======================================================================== 21-22 January Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK This two-day symposium brings together critically and creatively engaged perspectives on how our physical and social deaths are becoming increasingly entangled within the webs of our technologically mediated lives. The aim is to address technologies not as passive tools but as configurations that emerge out of complex, socially situated design, development and appropriation processes. Speakers include Paul Coulton, Professor of Speculative and Game Design, Lancaster University; Selina Ellis Gray, PhD, Lancaster University; Fiorenza Gamba, Associate Professor of Sociology, Sapienza University of Rome; Wendy Moncur, Reader in Socio-Digital Interaction, Dundee University; Stacey Pitsillides, Lecturer in Design, Goldsmith’s University of London; Corina Sas, Senior Lecturer in Computing, Lancaster University; Linda Woodhead, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University; Call for Papers/Participation: ————————————— We invite contributions that bring analytical, critical, practice-based and creative insights to the use, design and development of technologies entangled at the end of life. Theoretical, empirical, practical and design or art-based research and approaches are welcome. Themes may include: The digital economies of death, dying, commemoration and loss Dying online or digital mediations of death Personalization and hybridization of rituals, digital memorialization, mourning practices Digital afterlives, agency and the social presence of the dead Digital remains, digital legacy or peri or post mortem data The multiple physical, informational, imaginative mobilities of death, loss and memory The multiplying temporalities of practices, memories, experiences Methodological considerations, e.g. ethics, privacy, value sensitive design Please submit a 300 word abstract to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. For artworks or design proposals we also invite examples of practice, images or sketches. Please include full contact information, name, affiliation and email address in the submission. If you have any questions, please contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Important information —————————— Submission Deadline: 14th December 2015 Notification of Acceptance: 21st December 2015 Registration by 4th January 2016 Registration now open at http://online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=6&catid=678&prodvarid=291 Full programme and more information: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/futures-of-the-end-of-life/<http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/study/history-art-design/events/diplomacy-by-design> -- Monika Büscher Professor of Sociology Director Centre for Mobilities Research Associate Director for the Institute for Social Futures Department of Sociology Lancaster University LA1 4YD http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/profiles/monika-buscher email: m.buscher(at)lancaster.ac.uk mobile: 07890 847166 Twitter: @mbuscher Bridge project: http://www.bridgeproject.eu/en SecInCoRe project: http://www.secincore.eu Catalyst project: http://www.catalystproject.org.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------