Death Online Research Symposium (DORS4):
The University of Hull, UK, August 15 – 17 2018.
The 4th Symposium of the
International Death Online Research Network will take place at The
University of Hull, UK, August 15 – 17, 2018. It will consolidate links
between existing and new network members and provide opportunities for the
discussion of ongoing and new orientations in the interdisciplinary field of death online. The meeting
will explore the ways in which online connectivity is changing how, when
and where we engage with death and dying and how we invest death-related
practices with meaning in the online environment. We warmly welcome new members
to the network as well as old friends.
Confirmed
Keynote Addresses:
Professor
Charles Ess, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr Elaine
Kasket, psychologist and author of forthcoming book:
All the
Ghosts in the Machine
Themes and
perspectives of the symposium
For this 4th Death Online Research Symposium we invite abstracts for
oral presentations of new, recently completed, or ongoing research or ideas for
future academic research on all kinds of death related online practices. We
welcome qualitative and quantitative work which expands our understanding of
the current and future trends in death online research from a variety of
disciplines, addressing any of the following themes:
- Digitally mediated dying and narrative
- Digitally mediated grieving and memorialising
- Death online and embodied experience
- Digital afterlife, post-mortem identity and digital legacy
- Technological developments in the death care industry
- Digital immortality
- Online vs offline experiences
- Theorising online life and death
- Ethical challenges for studying death online.
The conference will host a
special workshop for participating ost Graduate students and early career
researchers. We particularly welcome submissions from these groups. All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and we envisage
publication of selected full papers in a
special issue of an academic journal in the field as well as a collection of
writing from the symposium in an open-access online
platform.
Important
information
Submission format: 300 word abstract
Submission deadline: March 15th, 2018
Submission feedback: April 15th, 2018
Registration open: May 1st, 2018
Registration fee: £125 (£75 students).
This will cover morning and afternoon refreshments and lunch for the 3 days and
conference dinner on day 2.
All submissions and enquiries should be
submitted to Dr Jo Bell:. marked “Death Online Research Symposium
Submission” in the subject field. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.
Please include full contact info (name/s, institutional / organisational affiliation
and email address) in the submission. Submissions will be anonymised before
review.
The online registration and payment site
will be open from 1st May 2018. There will also be information
available here for booking options for accommodation. You can stay on The
University of Hull campus at The Courtyard for £50 per night (including
breakfast) or £45 per night (excluding breakfast). We will make cheaper options
such as ‘air b & b’ available where possible.
If you are interested in joining the Death
Online Research Network, please contact Dr Stine Gotved.
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