Symbolic Death

With short presentations from: Geoff Cubitt (History), Dorothy Nott (History of Art), Ruth Penfold-Mounce (Sociology) and Jim Sharpe (History)

This informal meeting will discuss aspects of symbolic death, comprehending a wide range of suffering, experiencing, or even embracing death, such as martyrdom, suicide bombing, exemplary and edifying deaths, and assassination.

The meeting is part of the Death research strand.

Directions to the Centre for Housing Policy seminar room 

Lunch will be included, so if you are planning to come please contact julie.rugg@york.ac.uk