Wednesday 12th July – Friday 14th July 2006
Mansfield College, Oxford
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 (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Final Conference Programme (v.1.7)
Wednesday 12th July 2006
from 12.00
Registration and Coffee
14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher, Peter Twohig and Asa Kasher
14.15
Keynote Paper
Harold Schweizer,
On Waiting and Hoping in Raymond Carver’s A Small, Good Thing
15.45
Tea
16.15
Session 2: The Dying Patient
Joint Session
Chair: Regis A. De Silva
Asa Kasher
The Dying Patient: A New Israeli Law
Marlene Benjamin
The Discovered Self: Catastrophic Illness, Dying, and Death in the Shaping of Character
Rob Fisher
The Evils of Making Sense of Death
Katherine Powis
Can the Dying Mourn?
18.15
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception
19.00
Dinner
Thursday 13th July 2006
09.00
Session 3: Attachment and Trauma
Chair: Reyhan Valri Gork
Stephen W. Kane
Attachment Trauma, Sudden Death and Anticipatory Grief: The Chamorro Sample
Otniel E. Dror
“Sudden Unexpected Death”: Magic, Contingency, and the Uncertainty of Signs
Sandra Jones
Complicated Grief Faced by the Families of Death Row Inmates: Obstacles to Effective Grief Therapy
Leeat Granek
Mourning my Mother
11.00
Coffee
11.30
Session 4: Death of Babies
Chair: Kate Woodthorpe
Carol Komaromy
Interpreting the Moment of Death
Jan Bleyen
Hiding Babies: Making Sense of Death and Grief
Lloyd Steffen
The Death of Innocents: Non-combatant Immunity v. the Divine Fetus
13.00
Lunch
14.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 5A: Death in Arts
Chair: Ken Worpole
Phil Fitzsimmons
John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat: An Exploration of Death and Dying in an Enduring Children’s Picture Book
Lucia Aiello
‘Of Death I try to think like this’ (J. 1558): Emily Dickinson’s ‘Play’ with Death
Outi Hakola
The Living Dead as Cinematic Images of Death
Irina Novikova
Representations of Death and Dying in Post-Soviet Russian and Baltic Cinemas
Session 5B: On Suicide
Chair: Muhammad Suwaed
Susan Giles
Language, Justification and Death: Making Sense of Suicide Notes
Farhana Ali
Muslim Women & Violent Jihad: A Look at Suicide Terror
Bruce Powell
Depression and Physician Assisted Suicide in Oregon
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
All in the Family: Media Presentations of Family Assisted Suicide in Britain
16.00
Tea
16.30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 6A: Preferences – Managing Dying and Professional Settings
Chair: Carol Komaromy
Eileen Sutton
Older People’s Preferences at the End of Life: A Review of the Literature
Malgorzata Zawila
Religion and Medicine in the Process of Managing Death and Dying: The Case of Hospice Circle in Poland
Jeremy A. Weinstein
“Fear of Feeling”: Working on Death and Dying and Professional Settings
Session 6B: Moral and Philosophical Insights
Chair: Asa Kasher
Simon Cushing
Don’t Fear the Reaper: An Epicurean Answer To Puzzles about Death and Injustice
Warren Shibles
Death as a Language-Game: A Metaphorical Method of Insight
Liz McKinnell
Our Obligations to Past People
18.00
Sessions End
Friday 14th July 2006
09.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7A: Death and the Environment
Chair: Paul Voninski
Ken Worpole
Honoured Guests, Honoured Places: Architecture, Design and End of Life Care
Kriss A. Kevorkian
Environmental Grief
Kate Woodthorpe
The Making of ‘Good’ Memorialisation
Session 7B: Moments of Death and Interventions at the End of Life
Chair: Bodil Ellefsen
Harald G. Kratochvila
The Moral Problems of some Forms of Medical Intervention in Elderly Demented Patients
Regis A. De Silva
Death and the Maiden: End-of-life Policy in the USA: The Interplay of Technology and the Iconography of the Female Body
Christine Valentine and Glennys Howarth
Contemporary Constructions of the ‘Moment of Death’
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8A: Death in Cultural Context, I
Chair: Kriss A. Kevorkian
Emilie Jaworski
Funeral Rituals
Reyhan Valri Gork
Death and Funerals In Sunni Societies in Turkey
Gerri Excell
Britain’s” Punk” Mourning Culture
Session 8B: Aspects of Euthanasia
Chair: Jan Bleyen
Florence Ollivier
Convenient Arrangements with Death: A Sociological Study on Euthanasia in France
Leila Jylhänkangas
The Body of Necessities in Finnish Discourse on Euthanasia
Dan Soen
The Right for “Dignified Death”: Religiosity and attitudes Towards Euthanasia among Social Science Students in Israel
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Death in Cultural Contexts, II
Chair: Leila Jylhankangas
Shane McCorristine
Tele-visions of the Dying: Ghost-seeing in the Society for Psychical Research in the 1880s
Muhammad Suwaed
Coping with Grief and Loss of Muslim Arabs in Israel – a Religious and Social Perception
Montse Fargas
Traumatic Bereavement and Coping: Implications for a Contextual Approach
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 10: Death in Social Contexts
Chair: Susan Giles
Melanie Finney
Institutional Loss: Dialectical Tensions in Coping with Major Loss
Paul Voninski
Death and the Wider Shades of Meaning of ‘Bad News’: Is ‘Bad News’ Always ‘Bad’ (for Everyone)?
Abir Hamdar
The Hole Beside Her Lady Zainab
17.30
Closing Words and Conference Close
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