'When is Death?': registration open
Please find below details of a conference in medical humanities I am organising in Leicester (apologies for cross-posting).
When is Death?: Three Day International Conference
This three day international and interdisciplinary conference will focus
on the question ‘When is Death?’ Keynote speakers include: Professor
Douglas Davies, Professor Thomas W. Laqueur, Dr John Robb, Associate
Professor Sarah Ferber, Jonathan Ree, Dr Julie-Marie Strange
When is Death?: Three Day International Conference People tend to
instinctively think of death as something that is certain and absolute,
a one-way journey away from the world of the living. Where people in the
medieval period saw Death striking the hour in public clocks, people in
the twenty-first century can now log on to The Death Clock, which
estimates our remaining time alive – down to the hours, minutes, and
seconds. Can we think of death as a becoming rather than an ending?
Whether we think of death as an event, as a state, or as a movement
somewhere else, placing death in time exposes it as something that is
uncertain in a whole range of ways. Timing death, in this understanding,
must involve the recognition that a person can die differently according
to different chronologies.
This three day international and interdisciplinary conference is funded
by the Wellcome Trust and will focus on the question ‘When is Death?’ We
invite students, scholars, researchers, and health and palliative care
workers, to join us in Leicester.
Full schedule TBC.
Date of Conference: 16th-18th April 2015
Location: College Court, Leicester.
For more information and details on how to register, visit:
http://shop.le.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=7&catid=711&prodvarid=479
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Dr Shane McCorristine F.R.Hist.S.
Director of Studies for Geography, Downing College, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leicester
When is Death?: Three Day International Conference
This three day international and interdisciplinary conference will focus
on the question ‘When is Death?’ Keynote speakers include: Professor
Douglas Davies, Professor Thomas W. Laqueur, Dr John Robb, Associate
Professor Sarah Ferber, Jonathan Ree, Dr Julie-Marie Strange
When is Death?: Three Day International Conference People tend to
instinctively think of death as something that is certain and absolute,
a one-way journey away from the world of the living. Where people in the
medieval period saw Death striking the hour in public clocks, people in
the twenty-first century can now log on to The Death Clock, which
estimates our remaining time alive – down to the hours, minutes, and
seconds. Can we think of death as a becoming rather than an ending?
Whether we think of death as an event, as a state, or as a movement
somewhere else, placing death in time exposes it as something that is
uncertain in a whole range of ways. Timing death, in this understanding,
must involve the recognition that a person can die differently according
to different chronologies.
This three day international and interdisciplinary conference is funded
by the Wellcome Trust and will focus on the question ‘When is Death?’ We
invite students, scholars, researchers, and health and palliative care
workers, to join us in Leicester.
Full schedule TBC.
Date of Conference: 16th-18th April 2015
Location: College Court, Leicester.
For more information and details on how to register, visit:
http://shop.le.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=7&catid=711&prodvarid=479
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Dr Shane McCorristine F.R.Hist.S.
Director of Studies for Geography, Downing College, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leicester