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The call for abstracts is now out for this year’s Death, Dying
and Bereavement symposium around the theme ‘Death and Time’.
We are inviting academics and practitioners to submit
abstracts on the theme of time 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:
· Defining moment/s at which death occurs
· Death-related experiences across the life-course
·
Changes in social practices related to death, dying and bereavement over
time
·
Time and the processes of dying and decomposition
·
Notions of ‘trajectories’ in relation to death, dying and
bereavement
·
‘Waiting’ and other experiential aspects of temporality and
death-related experiences
·
Time-related metaphors associated with death, dying and bereavement
(e.g. ‘journeying’)
Submit abstracts
of no more than 250 words to [log in to unmask] by midnight
GMT Monday 18th September 2017. With your submission include your name,
affiliation and contact details. Presentations will be 20 minutes long with
additional time for questions.
The symposium will be held on Friday December 1 2017 at the BSA Meeting Rooms at Imperial Wharf. The
annual symposium is run by the British Sociological Association Social Aspects
of Death, Dying and Bereavement study group (DDB). More details about the call
for papers, registration, and the study group can be found here: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study-groups/social-aspects-of-death-dying-and-bereavement-study-group/events/
Best wishes,
Erica
Borgstrom, Julie Ellis, and Laura Towers
DDB
co-convenors ([log in to unmask])