Conference on Closure in Durham April 9-10, 2025

21 March 2025

The Centre for Death and Life Studies organises a two-day conference on 'closure' on Wed 9 and Thu 10 April 2025.

Centre for Death and Life Studies is organising a conference on Closure

The conference will take place at Dunelm House, The Students' Union Building, in central Durham. The conference will begin at 1:15pm on Wednesday 9th April and conclude at 5:30pm on Thursday 10th April, except for those wishing to attend the conference dinner at Hatfield College from 7pm on Thursday 10th April.

On Wednesday evening at 7pm there will be a public talk followed by a drinks reception where Dr Kathryn Mannix and ceramist Dr Julian Stair discuss the concept of ‘closure’ in conversation with Professor Douglas Davies.

The conference partially marks the conclusion of the Digital Death Project in which Durham has shared research with the universities of Aarhus in Denmark, Helsinki in Finland, and Bucharest in Romania, all funded by the European Union’s Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe scheme (CHANSE).

The full programme is published on the Event Durham web page.

Go to the Event Durham for registration.