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.