RESEARCH DAY ON INTERPRETATIONS OF DEATH & DYING
7th November 2014, Kingston University

JG0001
9.30- 10.00 Welcome
10.00-10.25 Making End-of-life Decisions from the perspective of Intensive

Care Consultants: Balancing Professional Tension and

Deciding upon the Status of Death
Emmanouela Konstantara, University of Surrey

10.25-10.50 Stories of fatherly suicide
Professor Dariusz Galasinski, Wolverhampton University

10.50-11.15 The Oxygen Man and the Breaking of the Vessels: a creative

response to bereavement by suicide
Joanne Limburg, Kingston University

11.15-11.45 Panel Questions & Discussion

11.45-12.00 Break & light lunch (and move to JG3003)

12.00-14.00 Death Café

Sharon Young, Kingston University

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University
Friday, 7th November 2014
9:30-18:00pm, JG0001

The day will feature guest talks, discussion and poster presentations by academics and health practitioners on interpretations of death, dying and mourning and contemporary approaches to end-of-life, suicide and bereavement.

Confirmed speakers:

• Prof. D. Galasinksi (University of Wolverhampton)
• Prof. E.Semino (University of Lancaster)
• Dr. Szofia Demjen (Open University)
• Josephine Speyer (Psychotherapist, co-founder of Natural Death Centre)

Participants will have a chance to share their ideas in a Death Café discussion group (http://deathcafe.com) and attend a specially commissioned performance on dying by Josh Whatsize (Kingston University student in Politics & Drama).

Advance booking required

Registration (incl. coffee/tea and light lunch): £20
(student reduced fee...

The first Death Café in Kingston was organised in support of the 5th annual Dying Matters Awareness Week and took place on Tuesday, 13th May at the Rose Theatre (sponsored by the Kingston University Alumni Opportunity Fund). Ten people joined the group discussion on matters of life and death prompted by a set of open-ended questions that were listed in the menu for the Café (e.g. how would you like to be remembered? what is your idea of a good funeral? how would you cope with a loved one’s death? etc.). Participants included a mix of males and females across the age spectrum who contributed to a thought-provoking, intimate and exhilarating discussion about (a) death and its meanings (what is death? how are we to understand it? in what ways does our sociocultural background and experiences shape our perception of death? ), (b) one’s own death (how best to prepare for it, how to let others...

Death Cafe is coming to Kingston very soon!

Join us at the spacious and relaxing space of Rose Theatre Swallow Cafe for an informal and lively discussion of death and dying matters during the Dying Matters Awareness Week (12-18 May 2014).

The Café is sponsored by the Kingston University Alumni Opportunity Fund and will be facilitated by Dr Korina Giaxoglou, senior lecturer at Kingston University London and sociocultural linguist investigating traditional and digital practices of mourning.

There is no pre-set agenda or theme to the Kingston Death cafe. The facilitator will work with participants to agree on the ground rules for discussion and will suggest a dialogue format and prompts that participants can choose from depending on their interests and concerns. This is very much a participant-led event, so be prepared to share your views and attitudes with people you have never met...