2nd Global Conference

2003 Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers

The 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

Final Programme

Friday 21st November
From 12.00pm
Registration

2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher

2.15pm
Session 1: Cross Cultural Practices of Mourning
Chair: Rob Fisher

Ashley Byock
Embalming the National Body: Mourning and the American Civil War

Asa Kasher
National Mourning: Philosophy and Practice in Israel

Penelope Johnson-Moore
African American Population in Grief

3.45pm
Tea

4.15pm
Session 2: Friends, Others, and a Postmodern Ars Moriendi
Chair: Mira Crouch

Havi Carel
Death and the Other: The Ambivalence of Mourning

Mikko Kallionsivu
“We Simply Walk Toward the Sliding Doors” Don Delillo’s White Noise as a Postmodern Ars Moriendi

Gary Peters
The Death of a Friend: Some Themes in Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning

5.45pm
Wine Reception

Saturday 22nd November
9.00am
Session 3: Images of Dying and Death
Chair: Esther Waterhouse

Mira Crouch
Death and Images of Womanhood and Manhood: the Case of Serbian Epic Poetry

Kathleen Young
Extreme Makeovers and Reciprocal Relations Between the Living and the Dead

Susan Speraw
“God’s Face”: Drawings & Narratives of Children & Adolescents Facing Death

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 4: Death beyond Words: The Art, Music and Poetry of Dying
Chair: Asa Kasher

Blake Hobby
Death and Musical Transfiguration: Writing the Disaster

Michell Petrone
Art can Help make Sense of Death and Dying

Heather Wiseman
Beyond Words (Art & Poetry)

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 5A: Grief, Bereavement and Counselling
Chair: Ashley Byock

Siobhan O'Driscoll
Responding to Bereavement in an Acute Care Setting

Jeremy Weinstein
The Context and Contours of Bereavement Counselling

Marguerite Peggy Flynn
The Good Death Institute

Session 5B: Survivors and Protagonists
Chair: Antonio Sison

Jennifer Hart
Avoid this Crowd like the Plague: Historical Responses to Epidemic Diseases

Paula David
Good Grief: Issues of Death and Dying in Survivor Families

Karen Thornber
When the Protagonist is Death: Implicating Text and Reader in Trilogies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 6A: Palliative Care and Hospice Organization
Chair: Penelope Johnson-Moore

Garnet Crawford
Dignity-Conserving Palliative Care -- A Practical Application in a Case of Attempted Suicide

Kay Mitchell
A rose by any other name – the palliative care/euthanasia? continuum

Antonio Sison
Cultural Interpretations of Delirium Symptoms in the Terminally Ill:A Barrier to Psychiatric Evaluation and Management

Session 6B: Lazarus, HIV and Grief
Chair: Siobhan O’Driscoll

Sally Cameron & Sue Cameron
Bleak House: Comparission to HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Bruce Thompson
Lazarus Phenomenon (HIV)

5.30pm
Sessions End

Sunday 23rd November
9.00am
Session 7: Diagnosis: The Receiving End
Chair: Lawrence Fouraker

Angela Armstrong-Coster
Medics Facing Terminal Diagnosis

Elizabeth Gill
Between Organizations, Family, and Death: Caring Creatively within the Hospice Organization

Anna Taube
Reflections on the Needs of Palliative Patients After Being on the Receiving End of Care

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 8: Voluntary Death, Culture & Suicide
Chair: Angela Armstrong-Coster

Laura Cruz
For Fear of What the Neighbors Might Say: Social Networks and Suicide in Early Modern Holland

Lawrence Fouraker
“Voluntary Death” in Japanese History and Culture

Kathleen Jones
Gender, Youth, and Suicide: Life and the Meanings of Death in the Jazz Age

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 9: At the End of Life
Chair: Kay Mitchell

Deborah O'Connor
Palliative Care Nurses’ Experiences of Paranormal Phenomena and their Influence on Nursing Practice

Theris Touhy
Spiritual Caring at the End-of-Life in Nursing Homes

Esther Waterhouse
‘I think experience and gut feeling go together’: hospice nurses’ accounts of the hours immediately preceding and following death.

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Project Development Meeting
Rob Fisher

4.30pm
Conference Close