Events

This year’s theme is Dying To Be Heard – expect tips on active listening, and reassurance for people that they don’t need to be an expert on wills, funerals or advance care planning. More at www.dyingmatters.org/AwarenessWeek

Presentation abstracts invited to cdas@bath.ac.uk by 28 February 2020.

Education event

The International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society, held every three years, will be hosted in Melbourne, Australia, from 13-17 July 2020. The conference encourages international and multidisciplinary collaboration in research and clinical and community practice, across cultural and geographical boundaries, with opportunity to share the latest developments. Info is at www.icgb2020.com

Keynote speakers are Dr Philip Stone (iDTR, UCLAN), Shannon Taggart (Independent Artist and Photographer), and the Creative Histories of Witchcraft project team comprising of Dr Will Pooley (University of Bristol), Poppy Corbett (Independent Playwright) and Anna Kisby-Compton (Independent Poet and Researcher).



Death & Culture III promotes the continuing engagement with the study of death, and acts as a forum for networking and the sharing of multidisciplinary death scholarship. Abstract papers are welcome with contributions on topics including, but not limited to:

• Death and the popular imagination • Work in death and death-adjacent industries • Governance of mortality • Death in the digital age • Mass death in the age of individualism • Artistic approaches to mortality

This internationally reaching conference brings together death scholars, including postgraduate students, artists, the charity sector, the professional environment, as well as those who might not consider themselves death scholars whose work overlaps with thanatological enquiry.


This year's conference is set to focus on vulnerable subgroups amongst those bereaved by suicide and taboo issues directly associated with such deaths. More than 400 people from at least nine countries usually attend this annual event and it is always over-subscribed. Cost is £140 + booking fee + VAT – book on suicidebereavementuk.com/suicide-bereavement-conference