Below is the preliminary schedule for our conference. Please note that the programme is still under construction, and things may still change as we approach the event dates.
Read more about the Plenary Sessions and Additional Events on the following pages. Also, don’t forget to register for the conference dinner, Dark Tourism Tours and excursion to Amsterdam’s Death Museums before 1 August.
Some panels do not have chairs assigned yet. We will assign chairs and add names later on.
Panel sessions
Eight conference threads shape the structure and content of our programme:
- Ritual practices: Funerals, cemeteries, ideologies
- Navigating loss and grief: Personal experiences and collective expressions
- Digital death practices and immortality
- The politics of death in times of crises
- Death, culture and the politics of representation: Past and present
- Death and/of the more than human
- Body politics and disposal: Parts and wholes
- End-of-life: Planning and caring in practices and politics
You can see these threads reflected in the programme below.
Online programme
All sessions — with the exception of the workshops, roundtable sessions, and the experiential keynote by Prof. Enny Das — will be available in a hybrid format. This means that remote participants are warmly invited to join us online.
In addition to the main programme, a dedicated selection of events is offered exclusively for online attendees:
- Wednesday 27 August, 12.00-12.45: Online Meet & Greet. Connect with fellow online participants in an informal session. Share your research interests, discuss your hopes for the conference, or simply enjoy some friendly conversation.
- Thursday 28 August, 12.45-13.45: Meet Mortality. Call in to dr. Bethan Michael-Fox with any questions on publication in the journal Mortality, a journal for interdisciplinary engagement, welcoming contributions from discrete disciplines as well as inter-multi- and trans-disciplinary submissions
- Thursday 28 August, 16.00-17.00: Meet the Makers of the “Mortal” Animations. UK-based artists Ben Faircloth, Eilidh Nicoll, and Mariana Leal will be discussing the inspirations and processes behind their recent animations. Their films consider processing death anxiety, voicing grief communally, and queering funerary practice. Join a conversation with the filmmakers, chaired by Harriet Titlow from arts agency Animate Projects. You can watch the three animated shorts (running time c. 11 minutes) online during the conference (Link available from 27 August).
- Friday 29 August, 12.45-13.45: Meet Mortality.
- Friday 29 August, 15.45-16.15: Online Meet & Greet.