1st Global Conference (2010)

1st Global Conference

Friday 5th November – Sunday 7th November 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

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

Friday 5th November 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Nancy Billias

14.00
Session 1: Opening the Doors to Suicide
Chair: Nancy Billias

Roundtable: Who, What, Where, Why?

Suicide and Justice: Weariness, Hatred, or Love of Life?
Emile Bojesen
Faculty of Education, University of Winchester, UK

Suicide and Self-Injury Among Prisoners: An Outcome of Past Victimisation?
Sarah Ben-David
Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Professional Responsibility: Issues and Attitudes
Chair: David Franklin

Who is Responsible When ‘Attempted Suicide’ Goes Wrong?
Gavin Fairbairn
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

A Delicate Balance: The Right to Suicide versus the Professional Duty of Care
Vanessa Taylor and Janette Nankivell
Mental Health Legal Centre, Victoria, Australia

Attitudes of Iranian Interns and Residents towards Euthanasia
Fatemah Sheikh Moonesi
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Centre,Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Sari, Iran

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Saturday 6th November 2010
09.30
Session 3: Issues of Gender and Sexuality
Chair: Dorothy Ratnarajah

Dying to be a Man: Towards an Understanding of the Relationship between Masculinity and Male Suicidal Behaviour
Jo River
Faculty of Education and Social Work, Sydney Nursing School and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Australia

What Does the Music I Hear Have to Do with My Views on Death and Life? Social Representations of Life, Death and Suicide
Rute Rodrigues and Abilio Oliveira
Lisbon University Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Lisbon, Portugal

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Narrating Suicide
Chair: Gavin Fairbairn

Suicide and the Limits of Narrative: Ludwig Binswanger’s “Case of Ellen West”
Christopher Trogan
United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York, USA

Third Space Normative Ethics: Cultural Relativism, Hybridization and Suicide in Death and the King’s Horseman
Angela Eward-Mangione
University of Southern Florida, USA

Talking Ourselves Down (to Earth): Can the Narrative of Suicide Intervention Help Solve the Global Ecological Crisis?
David Franklin
Department of English Language and Literature, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5(a): Poverty and Suicide
Chair: Christopher Trogan

Suicide and Irish Travellers
Mary Rose Walker
Wicklow County Council, Ireland

Relationship between Poverty, Domestic Violence, and Suicide: A Case Study in Rural Areas of Lorestan Province
Ardeshir Bahrami & Moosa Anbari
Dept of Rural Sociology, Tehran, Iran

Representation of Suicide for Young Indians of the Dourados Reservation, Brazil
Maria de Lourdes

Session 5(b): Title: Consequences and Lessons of Suicide
Chair: Massih Khazeni

Learning from the Bereaved by Suicide in the Face of Stigma
Dorothy Ratnarajah
University of New England, New South Wales, Australia

Resurrecting a Life through Storytelling: A Healing Process for Survivors of Suicide
Mixon Ware
Department of Family Studies, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, USA

Commitment for a Common Cause: Suicides for a Separate ‘Telangana’ State in India
Chakrapanti Ghanta
Department of Sociology, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, India

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6 (a): Ethnographic Approaches to Suicide
Chair: Moosa Anbari

Four Funerals and a Wedding: Suicide and Agency in a Siberian Village
Ludek Broz
Siberian Studies, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

Farmers’ Suicides in India: Ethnographic Perspectives on Statistics and Case Histories
Daniel Munster
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Halle, Germany

Alcoholism and Suicide among the Small-Numbered Peoples of the North
Kirill Istomin
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

Session 6 (b): Suicide and Religion
Chair: Emile Bojesen

The Value of Life in Islam
Hossein Godazgar
Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic & Islamic Studies, Dundee, Scotland, UK

Religious Attitudes and Behaviours among Suicide Attempters in Turkish-Muslim Society
Zuhal Agilkaya
Marmara University, Turkey and Bielefeld, Germany

Ancient Indian Perspectives on Suicide
Debashis Ghosh
Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Nehru University, New Delhi, India

17.30
Sessions End

Sunday 7th November 2010
09.00
Session 7: Prevention/Management/Treatment of Suicide
Chair: Carol Schubeck

Training Guidelines for Experts Working in Suicide Prevention
Ksenija da Silva & Christopher Griffiths

Passionate Inscription: Love in the Performance of Suicide
Kathy McKay, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Recovery from a Suicidal Crisis: Where There’s Hope, There’s Life
James Overholser
Clinical Training, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: The Role(s) of the Media
Chair: Vita Postuvan

Media Frenzy and Teen Suicide
Theresa Rishel
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

I Would Die for You: Love Suicide and Redemption in the Cinema of Dreyer, Fellini and von Trier
Angela Tumini
Department of Italian Language and Literature, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

Suicide Instructions in Japan: From a Bodily Act to a Virtual Experience
Francesca di Marco
Center on East Asian Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: From the Front Lines of Suicide Research
Chair: Angela Tumini

Qualitative Approches in Psychological Suicide Studies: Values and Ethical Issues
Vita Postuvan & Marja Kuzmanic
University of Primorska, Slovenia

Testing the Hypothesis of the Natural Rate of Suicides: Further Evidence rom OECD Time Series Data
Antonio Rodriguez
Institute for Folkesundhed, Aarhus University, Denmark & Ferda Halicioglu, Dept of Economics, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

15.00
Coffee

15.30
Session 10: Phenomenological Approaches to Suicide
Chair: John Seck

Self-Determination and the Suicidal Experience: A Phenomenological Approach
Jann Schlimme
Institut für Philosophie, Karl Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria

An Existential-Phenomenological Study of Suicide: Drawing the Threads Together
Marja Kuzmanic, University of Primorska, Slovenia

17.00
Development Meeting

18.00
Closing Remarks
Conference Ends