Making Sense Of: Dying and Death 2004 Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers



3rd Global Conference Conference Programme, Abstracts and 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 (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation. Final Conference Programme (v.1.4) Thursday 2nd December From 12.30 Registration 14.00 Welcome and Opening Words Rob Fisher 14.15 Session 1: Narratives, Identity and Caring Relationships Chair: Rob Fisher Jeremy Weinstein Competing Narratives in the Lives of Relatives Caring for Dying Patients Eva Reimers Discursive Constructions of Widowhood and Loss - Normativity, Identity and Interdiscursivity Angela Armstrong-Coster The Threat of ‘We’ becoming only ‘I’: An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Dying on a Long-term Dyadic Relationship 15.45 Refreshment Break 16.15 Session 2: Selves, Violence and Death Chair: Asa Kasher Chris Onof Being-towards-Death and the Sense of Self Janette McDonald Making Sense and Meaning of Violent Death in Our Contemporary World 17:30 Wine Reception Friday 3rd December 9.00 Session 3: Corpses, Necrophilia and Death Chair: Jeremy Weinstein Majda Rajčanová Social Life of Corpses Emre Gökalp ‘Necrophilia’ in Sports Media: The Role of Sports Media in the Naturalisation of Death Culture Theodore Vurdubakis Death on Screen 10.30 Refreshment Break 11.00 Session 4: Representations of Dying, Death and Mourning Chair: Eleanor Pardess Karl Traugott Goldbach Dying Scenes in the German Opera of the late 18th Century Emily Hagenmaier Queer Mourning and the Art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres Rachel Ney Yves Berger’s Fiction: A Literary Attempt at Making Sense of Dying and Death at A Very Early Age 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Session 5: Monuments and Memorials Chair: Angela Armstrong-Coster Asa Kasher The Poetry of Monuments Regina McQuillan and Una MacConville Remembering the Dead; Roadside Memorials in Ireland Regina McQuillan Reconnecting: An Examination of a Memorial Service in an Irish Hospice 15.30 Refreshment Break 16.00 Session 6: Culpability, Blame and Genocide Chair: Glennys Howarth Benjamin Hale Culpability, Blame and Death in Utero Kathleen Young Everything but the Genocide: Anthropology and the International Criminal Courts and Tribunals 17.15 Sessions End Saturday 4th December 09.00 Session 7: Metaphor and Counseling and Companion Death Chair: Yuen Kwan Tse Eleanor Pardess Harnessing the Power of Metaphors in Group-Work with Bereaved Families Werner Nell The saying hallo Metaphor as Alternative Approach to Death-related Counseling Susan Dawson The Application of Human Bereavement Models to Companion Animal Death by Euthanasia 10.30 Refreshment Break 11.00 Session 8: Modern Thanatlogy, Alternative Spiritualities & Near Death Experiences Chair: Una MacConville Faruk Karaca ÝBN SÝNA and Modern Thanatological Researches Anna Kubiak Poland. New Attitudes Towards Death and Alternative Spiritualities Mary Murray Laying Lazarus to Rest 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Session 9: Euthanasia, Hospice and Disaster Chair: Chris Onof Nele De Bal Nurses’ Involvement in the Care Process for Patients Requesting Euthanasia Mary Josephine Mahoney Hospice and the Intangible Wonders of Being Benjamin Hale Impending Perinatal Disaster? Decision-Making Under Extreme Uncertainty 15.30 Refreshment Break 16.00 Development Meeting 16.30 Conference Close