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With apologies for cross-posting --- We're pleased to announce that the call for papers deadline for the second Death & Culture conference has been extended to 1st May. Death & Culture II Conference 6-7 September 2018, University of York Registration and abstract submission are now open for the second iteration of the Death and Culture conference taking place in September 2018. Registration fees include food and drink for the two days and a conference meal. The human response to mortality is a research theme across the arts, humanities and social sciences. As a result, this conference seeks to provide a forum for networking and sharing interdisciplinary death scholarship. We welcome research rooted in empirical studies as well as conceptual and theoretical engagement which focus on cultural responses to death and the ways it has shaped understandings and perspectives on mortality. The conference, in its second iteration, seeks to continue engaging with the study of mortality as an academic enterprise, supported by evidence and framed by theoretical engagement. This truly interdisciplinary event brings together death scholars, including postgraduates, as well as those who might not consider themselves death scholars whose work that overlaps with death and the dead. 2016’s inaugural conference was a roaring success, with papers presented from a variety of different disciplines across three days. This year, we invite abstracts that contribute (but are not limited) to the following themes; • Governance of mortality; • Death in the popular imagination; • Death and the digital realm; • Work in the death industry; • Mass death in the age of individualism; • Artistic death. 250 word abstracts with 100 word biographies to [log in to unmask] by 1 May 2018 – registration via University of York’s online store by 1 August 2018. Keynote presenters: Professor Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London) Professor Dorthe Christensen (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) Professor Dina Khapaeva (Georgia Tech, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, USA) Professor Stephen Regan (Durham University) -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------