2nd Global Conference
The End of Life Experience
Dying, Death and Culture in the 21st Century
Saturday 13th April 2019 – Sunday 14th April 2019
Bruges, Belgium
FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Saturday 13th April 2019
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30-10:00 Introductory Group Discussion and Design-Thinking Exercise
10:00 – 10:30 The Hidden History of Dying in the West
Nate Hinerman
10:30 -11:00 Tea and Coffee
11:00-12:30 Session 1: Death Attitudes
Chair: Donald Felipe
Being with the Dying: Taking Off our Coat(s) Before Entering the Room
Eunice Gorman & Laura Lewis
Death Becomes You
Avital Gershfeld-Litvin
Bettering End Life Experiences through Design
Hanna Buker
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 2: Maintaining Bonds
Chair: Luísa Flora
Design for End of Life Lab
Marieke Sonneveld
Dead Souls Symbology as the Discursive Construction of Memory in Barnes and Gogol
Elena Bollinger
“Unveiling the Corpse in the 21 st Century”
Kathryn Beattie
15:30 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 3: Workshop
Kotodama Applications for End of Life
Constance Borden
17:00 – 17:30 End of Day 1 Consolidation: Cross Session Discussion
17:30 Wine and Drinks Reception
Sunday 14th April 2019
09:00 – 10:30 Session 4: Death, Dying and the Law
Chair: Elena Bollinger
Dyalogues & Wishes
Nancy Belza
Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and Jahi McMath: What, if Anything, Do We Need to Learn from these Deaths? Perinatal End of Life Care
Elisabeth Maher & Vincent Maher
Ending Life on One’s Own Terms: Kelly Johnson’s story
Fran Johns
10:30 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 5: Death and Culture
Chair: Constance Borden
Learning from seasickness on the journey from life towards death
Julia Rose Lewis
Love Letters from the Other World”: Channeling Literary Influence in James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover.
Scott McClintock
‘The New Approach to Organ and Tissue Donation in England’: A Faith-Sensitive Proposal?
Kartina A. Choong
12.30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15.30 Session 7: Death and Literature
Chair: Elisabeth Maher
“How lucky we were came home to me”: Intergenerational Memory and Hybrid Subjectivity in Graphic Narratives of End-of-Life Care
Kathleen Venema
The Voice of the Wounded Body in Harriet Scott Chessman’s Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Raluca Balan
‘How easy it is to make a ghost’: Death’s Triumphant Silence in Keith Douglas
Luísa Flora
15:30 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Session 8: Death and the Body: Death and the Sprit
Chair: Kathryn Beattie
NDE and Afterlife as Plausible Phenomena in Jungian Memoir
Mirella Pintilie Jaber
Dead Celebrity: Real Person Fanfiction in online Fan Communities
Racheal Harris
Dying of Love
Donald Felipe
17:30 End of Day 2 Consolidation: Cross Session Discussion
18:00 Closing Words, Photographs, Goodbyes