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Upcoming Events
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Thursday 11th and Friday 12th of May 2023
Room BS/104 Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York |
The Phenomenology of Loss: A Two-Day Workshop
To Book Date and Time: Thursday 11th May 2023: 10:30 – 17:00 Friday 12th of May 2023: 9:30 – 17:00 Location: BS/104 (The Treehouse) University of York – In-person only We are said to experience “loss” in a variety of circumstances, including bereavement, the breakup of a relationship, loss of a home or job, chronic illness, and serious injury. Feelings of loss can also relate to missed opportunities, lost possibilities, the failure to become someone or something, and conditions such as chronic loneliness and depression. This workshop sets out to explore the phenomenology of loss in all its complexity and diversity. Issues to be addressed include whether and how grief over a death differs phenomenologically from wider experiences of loss, whether any features are shared by all forms of loss, how loss relates to absence and emptiness, the emotional character of loss, the objects of loss experiences, the extent to which human lives are shaped by a sense of loss, and whether certain kinds of loss are insufficiently acknowledged. This workshop is part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience’ (www.griefyork.com). Confirmed Speakers: Matthew Ratcliffe (University of York) Allan Køster (Aalborg University) Eleanor Byrne (Linköping University) Emily Hughes (University of York) Jake Dorothy (University of York) Yochai Ataria (Tel Hai College) Joel Krueger (Exeter) Tom Roberts (Exeter) Axel Seeman (Bentley University) Jan Slaby (Freie Universität Berlin) Kym Maclaren (Toronto Metropolitan University) Fredrick Svenaeus (Södertörn University) |
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8th June
16:00–17:30 Room B/T/019 Biology, Campus West, University of York |
Proust on the Sinking-In of Departure and Death
(In person) To Book Speaker: Associate Professor Rick Anthony Furtak |
Past Events
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2nd February
13:00–14:30 (Online) |
Narratives of death, grief and loss during Covid-19: An open thanatology project
(Online) Speaker: Dr Erica Borgstrom (Open University) |
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10th November
16:00–17:30 Room B/T/019, Biology, Campus West, University of York |
Affective injustice from anger gaslighting to grief gaslighting
(In-person event) Speaker: Dr Shiloh Whitney (Fordham University) |
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20th October
14:30–16:00 Room BS/104 Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York |
Grief and Hope: Exploring the pastoral nature of Christian funeral rites
(In-person event) Speaker: Dr Catherine Reid (University of York Chaplain) |
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29th September
14:30–16:00 Room AEW/003, Alcuin East Wing, Campus West, University of York |
Traumatic Grief
(In-person event) Speaker: Dr Linda Finlay (Open University) |
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29th June
10:30–17:00 In person |
The Limits of Grief: A One-Day Workshop
Speakers will investigate the scope and temporal structure of grief. Why does grief change over time in the way that it does? How wide-ranging are the causes and objects of grief? Who and what has the capacity to experience grief? Date: Wednesday the 29th of June 2022 Location: Room SB/A009, Sally Baldwin Buildings, Campus West, University of York Schedule: 10:30–10:50 Tea and Coffee 10:50–11:00 Introduction: Matthew Ratcliffe (University of York) 11:00–12:00 Can Animals Grieve?: Becky Millar (University of York) 12:00–13:00 Empathy and Psychopaths’ Inability to Grieve: Michael Cholbi (University of Edinburgh) 13:00–14:00 Lunch 14:00–15:00 On the Temporality of Grief: Berislav Marušić (University of Edinburgh) 15:00–15:30 Tea/ coffee 15:30–16:30 Grief over Non-death Losses: Louise Richardson and Matthew Ratcliffe (University of York) 16:30–17:00 Concluding Reflections: What Can Philosophers Tell Us About Grief?: Linda Finlay (Integrative Psychotherapist and Academic Consultant) 17:00 Close |
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9th June
16:00–17:30 Online |
Embodiment, enactment and the cultural poetics of grief
(Online event) Speaker: Professor Laurence J. Kirmayer (McGill University) |
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23rd May
16:00–17:30 Room SB/A009, Sally Baldwin Buildings, Campus West, University of York |
Psychiatry as a vocation: Moral injury, COVID-19, and the phenomenology of clinical practice
(In-person event) Speaker: Professor Matthew Broome (University of Birmingham) |
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19th May
14:30–16:00 Online |
Grief: Wrestling with time and embracing the strange enduring agency of the deceased
(Online event) Speaker: Associate Professor Kym Maclaren (Ryerson University, Canada) |
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12th May
10:00–11:30 Online |
Animated persona and the existence of dead persons
(Online event) Speaker: Professor Masahiro Morioka (Waseda University) |
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28th March
14:30–16:00 Room SB/A009, Sally Baldwin Buildings, Campus West, University of York |
Communing with the Dead Online
(In-person event) Speaker: Joel Krueger (University of Exeter) |
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9th Dec
15.00-16.30 Room B/B/002, Biology Building, University of York |
How C.S. Lewis’ theology affected his experience of grief
(In-person event) Speaker: Dr Tasia Scrutton |
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18th Nov
14.30-16.00 |
Supporting bereaved older people: Evaluation of the Bereavement Supporter project (Online event)
Speakers: Eve Wilson, Cruse; Prof. Karen West, University of Bristol |
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28th Oct
14.30-16.00 |
Introduction to Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy (Online event)
Speaker: Prof. Katherine Shear, Columbia University |
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21st Oct
14.30-16.00 |
How eco-grief will help us save ourselves (In-person event)
Speaker: Prof. Rupert Read, University of East Anglia |
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10th June
15.00-16.30 |
Grieving during the COVID-19 pandemic (Online event)
Speaker: Dr Lucy Selman |
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20th May
14.30-16.00 |
Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: Insights from Dennis Klass (Online event)
Speaker: Prof. Dennis Klass |
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13th May
14.30-16.00 |
Grief, personhood and belongings: The stuff of death - cleaning and life-clearing (Online event)
Speaker: Prof. Douglas Davies, Durham University |
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6th May
14.30-16.00 |
Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: Insights from Research and Grief Therapy Practice (Online event)
Speaker: Dr Edith Steffen, University of Roehampton |
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4th March 2021
14.30-16.00 |
The disenfranchised grief of involuntary childlessness: A living loss that society dismisses (Online event)
Speaker: Jody Day |
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26th Nov 2020
15.00-16.30 |
The state of disbelief: A story of death, love and forgetting (Online event)
Speaker: Juliet Rosenfeld Abstract
Psychotherapist and writer Juliet Rosenfeld will join us to discuss her moving account of bereavement and profound grief, The State of Disbelief: A Story of Death, Love and Forgetting (published February, 2020). Juliet's book details her experiences navigating the illness and death of her husband, and draws upon Freud’s essay Mourning and Melancholia. This interactive event will be chaired by members of the University of York research project ‘Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience’ and will give you the opportunity to hear more about Juliet’s work and pose your questions to her. |
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22nd Oct 2020
16.00-17.30 |
Talk: 'Funerals from an expert perspective' (Online event)
Dr. Julie Rugg, Senior Research Fellow, Cemetery Research Group, University of York |
25th Feb 2020
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Lecture: 'Grief and neurological impairment' (In-person event)
Prof. Jonathan Cole, University of Bournemouth/Clinical Neurophysiology, Poole Hospital, UK. Abstract
Definitions of grief will be explored, whether ‘normal,’ prolonged/complicated or anticipated; in terms of the classes of trigger; whether the causative event is singular or continuing; and whether grief is in the subject of the event or their carers/relatives. The psychiatric literature’s attempts to classify reactions as expected and excessive, and to tease apart grief and depression will be considered before the ways in which various neurological impairments handle grief will be discussed, (stroke, Parkinson’s, spinal cord injury). From these emerge questions rather than conclusions: should grief be discussed as a verb rather than a noun (and if so which tense?), how might normal and abnormal types be defined and treated, does grief imply a single event and loss rather than unwanted presence, and why are some people more resilient? 
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