Conference Programme
The draft programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Thursday 14th November
from 12.00pm Registration

2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Dr Rob Fisher

2.15pm
Keynote Address: ‘Living in our Hearts’
Professor Asa Kasher

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 1: Dialogues of Grief
Chair: Grant Crawshaw

Rob Fisher: ‘When a Child Dies’
Darlene Weaver: ‘ Sorrow Unconsoling and Inconsolable Sorrow’
Clare Emily Clifford: ‘Suicides have a Special Language’: Practicing Literary Suicide in Confessional Poetry

5.30pm
End

8.00pm
Session 2: Workshop: Filling the Space Around the Silence
Bernie Warren

9.00pm
End

Friday 15th November
9.00am
Session 3: Futility, Terror and Facing Up to Death
Chair: Gary Peters

Penelope Voutsina: ‘The Experienceable Death’
Kate Arthur: ‘Terror of Death in the Wake of September 11th: Is this the End of Death Denial?
David Johnson: ‘Kafka’s God of Suffocation: The Futility of ‘Facing Death’

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 4: The Hospice, Spiritual Care and the Journey Toward Death
Chair: Peter Day

Lynda Kayser & Judith Lyles: ‘Loss and Spiritual Care’
Alan Kolp: ‘Hospice: the Via Dolorosa ad Pacem (the Way of Sorrow to Peace)
Elizabeth Grant, 'Spiritual Care and the Journey Toward Death'

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 5: Probing the Boundaries of Living and Dying
Chair: Bernie Warren

Heather McKenzie:‘Cancer Survivors, Personal and Collective fears of Death: A Complex Intersection’
Vera Kalitzkus:‘Neither Dead-Nor-Alive: Organ Donation and the Paradox of Living Corpses’
John Lizza: ‘Death and Irreversibility’

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 6: Rituals of Care, Dying and Death
Chair: Penelope Voutsina

Mira Crouch: ‘Remaining Matters: The Latent Meanings of Contemporary Funeral Rites’
Gina Kaulukukui: ‘Meeting a Community Need: A Hospice Team Approach following Sudden Death’
Barbara Dane: ‘Post-Master’s Certificate in End-of-Life Care: The Creation and Evaluation of a Model’

5.30pm
End

7.30pm
Session 7: Dying, Words, and Art
Chair: Vera Kaltizkus

William Kimbrel:‘Only My Dying will Tell: Death and the Construction of Truth in Biographical Narrative
Clare Emily Clifford:‘My Business is Words: Anne sexton and the Industry of Dying’

8.30pm
End

Saturday 16th November
9.30am
Session 8: Cultures, Communities and Risks
Chair: Heather McKenzie

Andrew Fagan: ‘Avoidable Death: Multiculturalism and respecting Patient Autonomy’
Clarice Ford: ‘ African American Women and the Process of Mourning’
Michael Bukkola: ‘Living and Death’

11.00am
Coffee

11.30am
Session 9: Philosophies of Singularity
Chair: Roger Magnusson

Lanfranco Aceti: ‘Beyond the Philosophical Singularity: Narratives of Immortality in a Digital Black Hole
Gary Peters: ‘Time to Die: The Temporality of Death in the Philosophy of Singularity’

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 10: Euthanasia - Harm and Taboo
Chair: Barbara Dane

Jacqueline Herremans: ‘The Belgian Law: From the Taboo to the De-criminalisation of Euthanasia
Roger Magnusson: ‘Politics, Harm Minimisation and the ‘Euthanasia Underground’; An Australian Perspective

3.00pm
Tea

3.30pm
Development Meeting and Conference Close