8th Global Conference: Making Sense of: Dying and Death

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Deadline: September 23, 2011 | Date: November 12, 2011-November 14, 2011

Venue/Country: Prague, Czech Republic

Updated: 2011-06-08 21:13:57 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Making Sense of: Dying and Death

Saturday 12th November - Monday 14th November 2011

Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference

explores dying and death and the ways culture

impacts care for the dying, the overall experience

of dying, and ways the dead are remembered. Over

the past three decades,

scholarship in thanatology has increased

dramatically. This particular conference seeks a

broad array of perspectives that explore, analyze,

and/or interpret the myriad interrelations and

interactions that exist

between death and culture. Culture not only

presents and portrays ideas about a good death

and norms that seek to achieve it, culture also

operates as both a vehicle and medium through

which meaning about death is communicated and

understood. Sadly, too, culture sometimes

facilitates death through violence.

Submissions might be imagined in any (or none) of

the following ways:

death as an expression of doctrinal beliefs

and/or core values, death and dying as an on-going

movement between an individual or community and a

larger socio-cultural matrix, or death as

essentially a cultural construction.

Investigations that engage cultural studies from a

variety of perspective are certainly encouraged.

We also welcome perspectives

that interrogate the stability of meaning(s)

assigned to such terms (culture, death,

dignity, care, etc.) and their complex

inter-relations.

Specifically, submissions should be framed with at

least one of the following four rubrics in mind:

death/dying within culture, culture

within death/dying, death/dying as popular culture

(and vice versa), or death/dying in tension with

culture.

We welcome submissions that produce conversations

engaging historical, ethnographic, normative,

literary, anthropological, philosophical,

artistic, political or other terms that elaborate

a relationship between death and culture. For

example, submissions might investigate death and

dying in relation to any of the following realms

of culture:

* music

* literature

* film

* broadcast media

* religious broadcasting

* journalism

* athletics

* comic books

* novels / poetry / short story

* television

* radio

* print media

* internet / technology

* popular art / architecture

* sacred vs. profane space

* advertising

* consumerism

* new religious movements/religious subcultures

Papers will be considered on any related theme.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday

17th June 2011. If an abstract is accepted

for the conference, a full draft paper should be

submitted by Friday 23rd September 2011.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the

Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,

WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)

title of abstract, e) body of abstract

E-mails should be entitled: Dying and Death

Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain

from using any special formatting, characters or

emphasis (such as bold, italics or

underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to

all paper proposals submitted. If you do not

receive a reply from us in a week you should

assume we did not receive your proposal; it might

be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look

for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

Nate Hinerman

Nursing/Theology and Religious Studies

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, USA

E-mail: nphinermanusfca.edu

Rob Fisher

Network Leader

Inter-Disciplinary.Net,

Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

E-Mail: dd8inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Making Sense Of:

series of research projects, which in turn belongs

to the Probing the Boundaries programmes

of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring

together people from different areas and interests

to share ideas and explore discussions

which are innovative and challenging. All papers

accepted for and presented at this conference are

eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.

Selected papers may be invited to go forward for

development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/dying-and-death/

For further details about the conference please visit

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/dying-and-death/call-for-papers/