Death & Culture Network
The Death and Culture Network based at the University of York seeks to explore and understand cultural responses to mortality. It focuses on the impact of death and the dead on culture, and the way in which they have shaped human behaviour, evidenced through thought, action, production and expression. The network is committed to promoting and producing an interdisciplinary study of mortality supported by evidence and framed by theoretical engagement.
You can learn about the creation and development of the Death and Culture Network (DaCNet) in Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce’s episode of The Death Studies Podcast.
Update
You can hear an episode of The Death Studies Podcast recorded live at the 2022 Death and Culture Conference.
Events
Death and Culture book series
The Death and Culture book series (Bristol University Press) provides an outlet for cross-disciplinary exploration of aspects of mortality. We welcome proposals for monographs and edited collections, and also for short books. Contributions from early career researchers are particularly welcome. You can find more information here.
Death and Culture research group
Are you researching death and popular culture?
Join an open, cross-institutional and interdisciplinary group for researchers working in this area.
If you would like to join the group you can find the next meeting here on Eventbrite or you can join our JISCmail mailing list.
Membership
For more information about our steering group, membership, associate members and research students, click here.
York Death and Culture walk
The York Death and Culture Walk (DaCWalk) is an interdisciplinary walking tour of the city of York. It introduces participants to the spaces and places associated with death, dying and disposal in sensory and corporeal ways.
Associated research centres, networks and groups
Glasgow End of Life Studies Group
The Collective for Radical Death Studies (CRDS)
Contact
Death & Culture Network
Law and Sociology Building
University of York
East Campus
YO10 5GD