[Air-L] CFP: Digital Death - The 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network

[Anu A. Harju]

Dear colleagues,


Please find below *Call for Papers* for the *7th International Death Online
Research Symposium* organised at University of Helsinki 3-5 October 2024;
theme of the conference is *Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals
and Afterlife.*



        *Call for Papers: Digital Death*


*THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE DEATH ONLINE RESEARCH NETWORK
(DORS#7)*





              University of Helsinki, Finland, October 3-5, 2024




How do the dead live among us today?


What kinds of relationships can be established between the living and the
dead in today’s society?


How can we achieve immortality in the present-day digital society?



The 7th International Research Symposium of the Death Online Research
Network *Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife* addresses
the cultural and social transformation of human death in modern society as
it is characterised by digital saturation of the current collective social
and cultural existence. Although death is a universal condition of all
humankind, the ways in which death is addressed, managed, and performed in
a given society and culture varies considerably. The conference places
special emphasis on histories, cultures, religions, ideologies, and
technologies that shape the construction of digital death in the present
era.



*Keynote speakers:*



*Dr. Tamara Kneese* is a Project Director of Data & Society Research
Institute’s AIMLab in New York, USA.


Discussant: Dr. Tal Morse is Adjunct Lecturer at Hadassah Academic College
and CDAS Visiting Fellow in the University of Bath, UK.



*Associate Professor Patrick Stokes* is a Professor of Philosophy at Deakin
University, Australia.


Discussant: Professor Amanda Lagerkvist, Professor of Media and
Communication Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.



*Themes and Topics of Interest:*

We welcome paper and panel submissions on the following themes and beyond:


·      Digital afterlife

·      Digital immortality

·      AI and death

·      Death and data

·      Social media mourning

·      Digital grief practices

·      Interrelations between online and offline practices in mourning

·      Histories of digital death

·      Religion and digital death

·      Online funerals

·      Thanatechnologies

·      Digital estate planning

·      Robotics and end of life care

·      Grief influencers

·      Marginalised representations and digital death

·      Digital resistance to memorialisation

·      Ethical challenges in studying digital death

·      Legal perspectives and digital death



The symposium will host a special workshop of participating postgraduate
students and early career researchers the day before the symposium. The
conference will be *on-site only* at University of Helsinki, Finland.



*Submission guidelines:*



*Paper submission:*

Please submit your abstract of max 250 words with your contact details to
Linda Pentikäinen (linda.pentikainen at helsinki.fi)



*Panel submission:*

Panels up to four papers should include a general description of the panel
(max 250 words) together with abstracts of the individual papers (max 200
words) with contact details of each participant and the panel chair.
Proposals should be submitted to Linda Pentikäinen (
linda.pentikainen at helsinki.fi)



All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and we envisage publication of
selected full papers in a special issue in Thanatos (open access).
https://thanatos-journal.com/in-english/ Please note that participants will
be accepted to present only one paper as the first author.



*Important dates:*

Abstract/panel submission deadline: April 26, 2024

Notification of paper acceptance: June 3, 2024

Registration: June 3 – September 2, 2024

Conference: October 3-5, 2024



*Conference fee:*

Regular 200 €

Student 150 €



The conference is sponsored by DiDe research consortium (EU, CHANSE) and
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies



*Conference organisation team:*



Anu Harju: anu.a.harju at helsinki.fi

Linda Pentikänen: linda.pentikainen at helsinki.fi

Johanna Sumiala: johanna.sumiala at helsinki.fi


-- 
Anu A. Harju, Ph. D.
Senior Research Fellow
Media and Communication Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
P.O. Box 54
00014
University of Helsinki
E-mail: anu.a.harju at helsinki.fi