Are you researching death and culture?
Join an open, cross-institutional and interdisciplinary group for researchers working in this area. The regular online meet up group runs under the banner of the University of York’s Death and Culture Network (DaCNet), for which I am a member of the Steering Group.
With Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce I facilitate an regular online meet up group that convenes every six to eight weeks to discuss death and/in culture.
The group aims to connect researchers in this area and, in the longer term, to generate collaborative research projects.
Would you like to join in? You can find the next meeting here on Eventbrite or you can join our JISCmail mailing list to share and receive relevant updates, calls for papers and more.
If the times of meetings won’t work for you, please feel welcome to contact me and we can try to find a time that does for our next meeting – we are keen to be inclusive of different timezones and are happy to vary meeting times accordingly.
Researchers at all stages of their careers, students, writers and anyone with a keen personal interest in researching death in popular culture are welcome.
Topics for discussion include:
- Death, dying, the dead, grief and loss in/on film
- Death, dying, the dead, grief and loss in/on television
- Death, dying, the dead, grief and loss in literature (fiction, memoir, children’s literature and more)
- Death, dying, the dead, grief and loss in audio – podcasting and music
- Death, dying, the dead, grief and loss in news media
- Death, dying, the dead, grief and loss in videogaming
- Death, dying, the dead, grief and loss in different genres
- Death, dying, the dead, grief and loss in material culture
- Death, dying, the dead, grief and cultural events
- Differentiating between death, dying, the dead, grief and loss
- What is culture, anyway?
- In what ways is death highly visible in popular culture?
- In what ways are death and the dead invisible in popular culture?
- The role of culture in people’s lives and its reception and treatment in the academy
- And much more!
Find out more about the Death and Culture Network (DaCNet) at their website.