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Death and Culture Conference

Thursday 1 September 2016, 12.30PM to Saturday 3 Sep

Speaker(s): Jacque Lynn Foltyn, Sarah Tarlow, Michele Aaron, Eva Reimers

How can we, as academics, understand cultural responses to mortality?

Is every response to death – over time and over place - uniquely personal or essentially the same?

This conference focusses on the impact of mortality on culture, and the ways in which the very fact of death has shaped human behaviour, evidenced through thought, action, production and expression. The conference seeks to re-engage with the study of mortality as an academic enterprise, supported by evidence and framed by theoretical engagement. No discipline is excluded and we are encouraging researchers including postgraduates to contribute who might not consider themselves death scholars, with work that overlaps with death and the dead.

Keynote speakers:

  • Professor Jacque Lynn Foltyn (National University California)
  • Professor Sarah Tarlow (University of Leicester)
  • Professor Eva Reimers (Linköping University)
  • Dr Michele Aaron (University of Birmingham)

Draft programme:

You can download a draft of the programme using this link. Please be aware that amendments are still likely to be made. 

Draft Death and Culture Timetable (PDF , 98kb)

Location: TFTV, University of York

Email: death-and-culture@york.ac.uk