This is the End: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Death, Dying, and Disposal

The University of Leeds is hosting a conference,  
on May 20, 2020, titled "This is the End: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Death, Dying, and Disposal."

The conference is directed at interdisciplinary students and Early Careers Researchers to talk openly about death and its many forms, as well as inform participants of the wide range of methodologies and frameworks for investigating death and dying across different scholarly realms.

Participants will be asked to reflect on death, dying, end of life care, and the body after death. Using interdisciplinary approaches from the growing field of medical humanities, participants will bring together historical and contemporary perceptions and representations of death, dying, and disposal in order to paint a picture of the acts, reactions, and conceptions that encompass death and dying.

Individual 20-minute papers and panel proposals (three papers of 20 minutes duration followed by Q&A) are welcomed that address but are not limited to the following:

• Medical approaches to death, dying, and disposal
• Social perspectives of death, dying, and disposal
• The language of death, dying, and disposal
• The politics of death, dying, and disposal
• Theoretical or spiritual ‘deaths’
• The body after death
• Spaces of/for death, dying, and disposal
• Less conventional modes of death/dying (ie; abortion, euthanasia, suicide).

The Call for Papers is currently live, and applicants are invited to submit abstracts by 15 February 2020.