6th Global Conference [Новость добавлена - 11.05.2008]

Monday 3rd November - Wednesday 5th November 2008 Salzburg, Austria

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
research and publications project aims to create a
forum for examining the links between living
and dying, and some of the contradictions and
paradoxes that arise in our attitudes to death.

Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are
warmly invited on any of the following indicative
themes (or their combinations):

1. Kinds of Deaths: for instance, euthanasia,
abortion, suicide, homicide, neonatal and infant
death, accidents, natural disasters,
sudden death, terminal illness/death, capital
punishment, acts of terrorism; death of a child,
parent, spouse.

2. Philosophical, Ethical and Religious Issues in
Dying and Death: the nature of dying and death
(e.g. does an aborted foetus die?); philosophies
of dying and death; grounds for justifying and/or
condoning death (e.g., suicide, euthanasia); the
difference between seeking death and facing death
bravely. When is living to be feared more than
death - or vice versa? Facing, or even choosing,
death in order to kill others. Concepts of
afterlife and their influence on the dying,
theologies of death, near death experiences; faith
and secularism in death rituals; the role of hope,
expiation and forgiveness.

3. Bereavement: grief, loss and anger; 'models'
and theories of grief and their adequacy with
respect to different kinds of deaths; can grief
be shared? Grief counselling and grief therapy;
forms of remembrance, sites of remembrance, what
do they reveal and what might they conceal?

4. The Representation of Dying and Death: art, all
forms of literature, cinema, music, radio and
television; death and dying in children's
literature; children's concepts of mortality,
violence and death.

5. Contradictions and Paradoxes: examples may
include sudden death Vs our ability or desire to
postpone death; horror at genocide Vs our
appetite for films about ending lives in violent
ways; respect for horror and grief Vs the tendency
to wallow in their 'mediatised' forms;
terrorism Vs warfare; being informed Vs being
de-sensitised by the media.

6. Technology, Dying and Death: the impact of
advances in medical technology; social
expectations of medical possibilities; the
double-edged sword - technology as helper Vs
technology as killer (e.g.; lethal injection,
vaginal aspiration, gas chambers).

7. The Management of Dying and Death: Hospitals
and the limits of responsibility, e.g. (the
imposition of) intensive care and aggressive
treatment for dying patients; unacknowledged
euthanasia; ageing and dying; care homes or
waiting rooms for death; the hospice movement;
limits to the humanising of death; whose decisions?

8. Legal Issues in Dying and Death: legal
definitions of death, court rulings and decisions,
the right to die, natural death and brain death
statutes, advance directives and living wills;
organ donation, organ transplantation; who 'owns'
the corpse?

Papers are also sought for special sessions which
will be held in common with another research
project running at the same time entitled 'The
Patient'. When submitting your abstract, please
specify clearly whether you would like your paper
to be considered for a joint session presentation.
Papers submitted for joint sessions must be
explicitly inter- or multi-disciplinary in nature
and/or show where the possibilities for
inter-disciplinary research and engagement could
be developed.

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
20th June 2008. If an abstract is accepted
for the conference, a full draft paper should be
developed and submitted by Friday 10th October
2008. The draft paper should be no more than 8 or
9 pages long and ready for a 20 minute (maximum)
presentation during the conference.

If interested in participating, 300 word abstracts
should be submitted simultaneously to all three
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following
information in this order: author(s), affiliation,
email address, title of abstract, body of
abstract.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
respond to all paper or panel proposals submitted.
If you do not receive a reply from us in a
week you should assume we did not receive your
proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We
suggest, then, to look for an alternative
electronic route or resend.

Organising Committee

Mira Crouch
School of Sociology
The University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
E-mail: m.crouch@unsw.edu.au

Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Freeland
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
E-mail: dd6@inter-disciplinary.net

Asa Kasher
Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor Emeritus of
Professional Ethics and
Philosophy of Practice and Professor Emeritus of
Philosophy
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
E-mail: asakasher@hotmail.com

The conference is part of the 'Making Sense Of:'
research projects, which in turn belong to the
'Probing the Boundaries' programmes of ID.Net. We
aim to bring together people from different areas
and interests to share ideas and explore
innovative and challenging routes of intellectual
and academic exploration. All papers accepted for
and presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will
be developed for publication in a themed hard copy
volume.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/dd/dd.htm

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/dd/dd6/cfp.html