Making Sense Of: Dying and Death 2004 Conference Pogramme 2007



5th 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.1.9b) Monday 9th July 2007 from 12.30 Registration 14.00 Welcome and Opening Words Rob Fisher, Peter Twohig and Asa Kasher 14.30 Keynote Talk Chair: Asa Kasher Can I be Ill and Happy? Havi Carel 16.00 Tea 16.30 Session 1: Biography, Ambition and the Afterlife Chair: Asa Kasher The Trauma of Death and the Silence of the Private Diary Nikos Falagkas and Georgia Kalogeropoulou Death and Ambition in Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams Liran Razinsky Accounts of Afterlife from the Dead: How Useful Are They for the Dying? Stafford Betty 18.00 Wine Reception 19.00 Dinner Tuesday 10th July 2007 09.30 Session 2: The Art of Dying Chair: Kate Coleman The Temples at Burning Man Lori van Meter The Art of Dying Helen Ennis Representations of the Infamous or Anonymous Dead: Gerhard Richter’s Photopaintings and Jeffrey Silverthorne’s Photographs Randall van Schepen 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Session 3: Mortality, Philosophy and Conceptions of Death Chair: Lloyd Steffen King Death and the Death of a King: Monarchy and Mortality in Late Medieval England Ciara-Marie Shevlin Owing the Dead Jeremy Wisnewski To Join the Army as a Volunteer During a War. Wittgenstein and the Conception of Death Rossella Pisconti 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Session 4: Bereavement Chair: Caroline Edwards Handling School Children and Adolescents' Grieving Heart: The Role of Grief Counselling and Emotional Intelligence Abayomi Akindele-Oscar The Use of Physical Objects in Mourning by Midlife Daughters Laura Lewis ‘Coffin nails and column inches’: An overview of the news-worthiness of death in British and Irish journalism since the turn of the twentieth century Mark Wehrly 15.30 Tea 16.00 Session 5: Suffering and Euthanasia Chair: John E Troyer The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide: A New Approach Lloyd Steffen The Underlying Morality of the Dutch Euthanasia-law Govert den Hartogh When People Choose to Die: Does it Matter What We Call It? Gavin Fairbairn 17.30 Sessions End Wednesday 11th July 2007 09.00 Keynote Talk Chair: Rob Fisher Death and the Maiden: End-of-Life Legislation and the Semiotics of the Female Body Regis A. de Silva 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Concurrent Sessions Session 6a: Hospital Experience Chair: Eileen Sutton AED and the Socio-Technological Shaping of Death and Loss Brian Crosbie When End of Life becomes an Emergency: Dealing with Death and Dying in the Emergency Department Cara Bailey Is Religion Harmful to Patients at the End-of-Life? The Impact of Religion on End-of-Life Decision-Making Kate Coleman Session 6b: Historical Chapters Chair: Stafford Betty Alternative Perceptions of Death and Mourning in Understanding Past Societies Karina Croucher Mr. Moss's Skull: Changing Attitudes toward Accidental Exhumation in Annapolis, Maryland, 1855-2006 Michael P. Parker Abuse of a Corpse: A Brief History of Necrophilia Laws in America John E. Troyer 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Session 7: Aspects of Suicide Chair: Christian Riegel Intentional Death: Stoicism and the Debate on Suicide Petra Benske The Death of God and Suicide (Why, Why Not) in Modernist Literature T. Chandler Haliburton Giddens’ Adaptation:Imaginary Suicide in Reflexive Modernity Kuo-Kuei Kao 15.30 Tea 16.00 Session 8: Literature and Stories of Dying and Death Chair: Helen Ennis Death and Repetition: A Literary Approach Francisc Szekely Violet Flowers with Shades of Gold Abir Hamdar “Half in Love with Easeful Death”: Death in The Loved One and Love Among the Ruins E.Morera de la Vall 17.30 Sessions End Thursday 12th July 2007 09.30 Session 9a: Literature Chair: Jan Holmberg Familiarising Death in Fiction: Utopia, Time and Transcendence in Jim Crace’s Being Dead and Graham Swift’s Last Orders Caroline Edwards “Life Without A Trace”: Transforming Pain Into A Poem Julieta C. Mallari Mourning, Monument, and Memorial in Robert Kroetsch and Eli Mandel: Poetry of Loss Christian Riegel Session 9b: Rituals Chair: Mark Wehrly Maniat Laments as 'traditional' Narratives: From the Performed to the Monumentalised Korina Giaxoglou The Uneven Rites of Death Anna Lindström The Parasocial Paradox: How Personalized Funerals Extend Our Relationships Beyond Death Terri Toles Patkin 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Session 10a: The Elderly Chair: Liran Razinsky The Return of the Grotesque Aged Female Body in Gunter von Hagens' Autopsy: Life and Death (Channel 4) Joanne Garde-Hansen “I don’t want to be a burden to anybody”: Older People’s Preferences for Care at the End of Life Eileen Sutton Session 10b: How do you Know when Suffering is Unbearable? D.G. van Tol Henri Wijsbek 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Session 11: Visual Arts Chair: Jeremy Wisnewski 'Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death' - Ingmar Bergman Ananya Ghoshal "I am Dead": Notes on Cinema's Refutation of Time Jan Holmberg A Chance to Live Forever? Cloning and Personal Survival in The 6th Day Rudolph Glitz 15.00 Tea 15.30 Development Meeting 16.00 Conference Close
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