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Centre for Death & Society Global Events Calendar

View events relating to death, dying and bereavement held by Centre for Death & Society and other organisations.


Factsheet

2025

Date Event Location
12/03 Dealing with Mass Death (TBC)
27/02 Knowing about Death (TBC)
13/02 Decolonising death (TBC)

2024

Date Event Location
19/11 Critical perspectives on death: where we are and where we're going Online
10/10 Who’s death counts? Social (in)justice and public health in death and dying Online
25/09 CDAS@20: growing a community Online
06/06 The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope Online
05/06 “Make it fun!” Online
09/05 A gradual separation from the world: Loneliness in later life Online
25/03 Understanding and Managing Student Suicide 8 East 3.13 University of Bath Claverton Down BA2 7AY
20/02 Sociological Perspectives on Suicide Online
15/01 Organisational Learning, or organised irresponsibility Online

2023

Date Event Location
04/12 Grief: Past and Present Online OR 16 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN
15/11 Preserving Clarissa: Eighteenth-Century Embalming Practices
24/10 From Death to Sex: Past, Present and Future Research Directions
18/10 Sowing Life in Places of Death: Migrant disappearance and grief activism in Mexico
19/09 Disenfranchised Death and Grief Today
12/09 The impact of parental bereavement during emerging adulthood
03/05 Death - Exciting and New!
03-04/05 CDAS Conference: Innovation at the End of Life
26/04 End of Life Care Decisions in Care Homes
28/03 Deprivation of Liberty in Care Homes
28/02 Digital Necromancy: Users' Perceptions of Digital Afterlife and posthumous technologies
24/01 COVID-19 Commemoration
10/01 CDAS Writing: Writing Inside and Outside the Academy

2022

Date Event Location Type of event
19/07 Researcher Wellbeing Day University of Bath Seminar
05.07 Life-Writing and Death Studies Online InConversation
09 - 10.06 CDAS Conference 2022 Online Conference
05.05 InConversation, Dr Kami Fletcher with George Gumisiriza Online Seminar
03.05 [Natural Death in Care Homes: the Line Between Non-Intervention and Neglect Online Seminar
23.03 Further Reflections on a Year of Turbulence: Holding Space for the Pandemic's Dead and the Living Left Behind ZOOM InConversation
03.03 The home funeral movements in the US and UK ZOOM InConversation
01.03 SPS Department `Seminar: Predicting Global Pandemics for both the Living and the Dead ZOOM Seminar
09.02 Direct Cremation: the post-pandemic future of funerals? ZOOM Seminar

2021

Date Event Location Type of event
25.11 Data, Deaths and COVID-19: Why delays in UK government action led to unnecessary deaths at the start of the pandemic. Online InConversation
20.10 “Words are my currency”: paying attention to unintended consequences in the ‘death conversation’ Online InConversation
14.09 Good Grief Festival: public engagement and grief research during COVID-19 Online InConversation
09.09 COVID-19: Thinking about families – our own and others Online InConversation
07.07 Caring for the Dead during the COVID-19 Pandemic Online InConversation
07 - 15.06 CDAS 2021 Conference Online Conference
28.05 What is Ageism? Reflections on the Workplace Online InConversation
13.05 “You are on mute” – On change and continuity in funerals during a pandemic Online InConversation
16.04 COVID-19 - death and intellectual disability Online InConversation
16.04 COVID-19 Trauma of Funerals Online InConversation
15.04 Safeguarding Adults at Risk of Harm Online Training
15.04 Planning for the Pandemic's Dead: Reflections on a Year of Turbulence Online InConversation

2020

Date Event Location Type of event
11-17.05 Dying Matters Awareness Week 2020 UK Awareness Raising Event
20-21.03 1st International Conference Death Experiences Latvia Conference
19-21.02 Histories of Death: An international Symposium Finland Symposium

2019

Date Event Location Type of event
27.11-01.12 Grief and the Arts in the West from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century Leuven, Belgium Conference
27.11 New Research on Death and Dying Trends in Asia University of Bath Seminar
20-22.11 Dying for Change: Evolution and revolution in palliative care ACC Liverpool Conference
01 - 07.11 To Absent Friends - Scotland's Festival of Storytelling and Remembrance Scotland Festival
01 - 03.11 Festival of Death and Dying 2019: Inspiring a Death Friendly Society Somerset Festival
17.10 The Art of Dying Bath Literary and Scientific Research Institute Seminar
14.10 Marie Curie annual research conference London Conference
11 - 13.10 Pushing Up the Daisies, a Festival of Death & Dying Frome Festival
25.09 Suicide Bereavement UK's 8th International Conference: 'Suicide Bereavement: What about us?' The Mercure Manchester City Hotel Conference
04 - 07.09 The 14th Annual Conference on the Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Disposal CDAS, University of Bath, UK Conference
15.08 Celebrants Convention & National Celebrant Awards Gala Dinner Creaton, Northamptonshire Awards
04 - 05.07 Cruse Bereavement Care Conference Birmingham Conference
01 - 03.07 Cremation & Burial Communication & Education Hilton at the Ageas Bowl, Southampton Conference
13.06 Death & Dying in an Age of Denial Anglican Chapel, Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol Public lecture
15.05 Inaugural Beatrice Godwin Memorial Lecture: “It ain’t what you do, but the way that you do it” CDAS, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Public Lecture
08.04 New Perspectives on Death & Dying in Sub Saharan Africa CDAS, University of Bath, UK Seminar
07.02 Refugees Experience of Bereavement CDAS, 83 Pall Mall, London Seminar

2018

Date Event Location Type of event
04.12 The Big Death Talk University of Bath Discussion Forum
28.11 Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care annual conference Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh Conference
27 - 28.11 Hospice UK National Conference Telford International Centre Conference
22.11 Supporting suddenly bereaved children and young people Cardiff Seminar
02 - 05.11 Rites of Passage Autumn School The Malt Kiln, Barsea, Cumbria Training
28.10 - 02.11 VIII International Congress: Images of Death Pachua Hidalgo, Mexico Conference
26.10 Written in Stone Gloucester Crematorium Mulberry Rooms Performance
23.10 The Status of Rei (spirits) of the Dead in Japanese Society University of Bath Lecture
16.10 User Not Found The Edge, University of Bath Performance
02.10 Bereavement Research into Practice London Seminar
14.04 - 25.11 Building Memory - the architecture of death & burial in Bath Museum of Architecture, Bath Exhibition
27.09 Working with Bereaved Teenagers Child Bereavement UK, London Training
27.09 Second National Convention for Celebrants Kettering Conference
26.09 Suicide Bereavement: Breaking the silence The Mercure Manchester City Hotel Conference
24 - 25.09 Complicated grief masterclass London Masterclass
21.09 - 18.11 How do you want to be remembered? Lettering Arts Centre, Snape Maltings Exhibition
11.09 PABBS evidence-based suicide bereavement training Manchester Training
06 - 07.09 Death & Culture Conference University of York Conference
15 - 18.08 DORS4: Death Online Research Symposium University of Hull Symposium
06 - 10.08 Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement Conference 2018 Manley, Sydney Conference
23 - 24.07 Postgraduate Bioethics Conference King's College, London Conference
18.07 Exhibition Lecture: Origins in Stone Museum of Bath Architecture Talk
17 & 13.07 Saving and raising money for the bereaved - training on funeral costs Voluntary Action, Islington, London Training
10.07 PABBS evidence based suicide bereavement training Manchester Training
28.06 & 05.07 Supporting suddenly bereaved children and young people London Seminar
05.07 Alive in Conversation: 'All people deserve dignity when they die' Arnos Vale Cemetery Talk and tour
27.06 Walk and Talk: Locksbrook Cemetery Locksbrook Cemetery Walk
08 - 09.06 CDAS18: The Politics of Death University of Bath Conference

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