Steven:
Yes, I remember e-mailing back and forth a bit earlier in the year. And
yes, I think that your research is quite relevant for the conference
session. I would welcome an abstract.
Are you going to the ADEC (Assoc. for Death Education and Counseling)
conference in Cincinnati in March? It sounds like people there might be
interested in your work as well.
Thanks for getting in touch again.
Ivan
Ivan Emke
Associate Professor
Social/Cultural Studies
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Corner Brook, NL
A2H 6P9 Canada
709-637-6200, ext. 6322
Fax: 709-639-8125
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Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:16 PM
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Subject: Re: Canadian conference session
Hi Ivan,
I am very interested in this conference. We e-mailed one another
earlier this
year about the project I was working on about the Social Construction of
Bereavement in the Southern United States. I have some very interesting
results that reinforce our gender role expectations in what is
considered
appropriate bereavement behaviors, and show differences in acceptable
bereavement behaviors based on the trajectory (length of dying process)
of the
deceased. I have close an N of close to 500, but only sent out 800
surveys so
I am pleased with the return rate.
Let me know if you think this would be appropriate to this conference.
Thanks.
Stephen D. Krau, Ph.D., RN
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Disposal
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>Greetings from the New World:
>
>In June of 2003, as a part of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology
>Association's annual conference, I am organizing a session on the
Social
>and Cultural Aspects of Death and Dying. The conference will be held
in
>Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. More information about the conference is
>available at: http://alcor.concordia.ca/~csaa1/callforPapers2003.html
>
>A description of the session on death and dying is as follows:
>
>Social and Cultural Aspects of Death and Dying
>
>It has been stated that death is admirably democratic: there is only
one
>per person, but every person is sure to get one. Beyond this
assurance,
>it goes without saying that the crossing over from life to death is a
>centrally important moment in our own lives. Furthermore, how we
>anticipate, acknowledge, cope with and remember the deaths of those
>around us is of great social and cultural significance. This session
>will focus on how human societies deal with the social ruptures which
>are caused by death. The papers can cover a wide range of research
>areas, including the representations of death in our culture, rituals
of
>remembrance, issues related to hospice care, trends in funeral and
>memorial practices, historical or cross-cultural studies of death and
>dying, the analysis of professional groups who work with the dying or
>the dead, as well as other cognate topics.
>
>If anyone on the list is interested in proposing a paper, please
contact
>me at the address below. Feel free to disseminate this message as
>widely as you wish.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Ivan Emke
>Associate Professor
>Social/Cultural Studies
>Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
>Memorial University of Newfoundland
>Corner Brook, NL
>A2H 6P9 Canada
>
>709-637-6200, ext. 6322
>Fax: 709-639-8125
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