18-20 November 2010 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Veranstaltungszentrum Saal 3
		PROGRAMME	ABSTRACTS	KEYNOTE SPEAKERS	PHOTOS	LOCATION	ACCOMMODATION

   

			Thursday, 18 November 2010
			Allan Kellehear	Dying in the UK: Politics, Ideologies and Futures
			Friday, 19 November 2010
			Christoph Singer	Displaying Death in Britain: Damien Hirst, Gunther von Hagens and the Human Tissue Act of 2004
			Monika Seidl	Beautiful Inside My Purse Forever: How the Young British Artists Cash in on Death and Memorial Culture
			Stefan Schlensag	Death Is Not the End: Dead Bodies and Last Rites in Britain’s Multi-Ethnic Society
			Hein Versteegen	Dying with Laughter: The Inherent Joke Structure of Death and Bereavement
			Tina Weber	Drop-Dead Gorgeous. Representations of Death in Contemporary Television
			Elahe Haschemi Yekani	The Road to Guantanamo: The Politics of Social Death and Rebirth
			Michael Krause	The Public Death of James Bulger: A Watershed for the British Discourse about Crime
			Gerd Stratmann	Five Types of Bastardy: The Discursive Handling of Illegitimate Birth in the 18th Century
			Cyprian Piskurek	Untimely Birth: Mary Whitehouse, Vicky Pollard and Teenage Pregnancies on TV
			Saturday, 20 November 2010
			Beverley Lawrence Beech	Challenging the Medicalisation of Birth: The Difficulties in Getting the Consumers’ Voices Heard
			Dorothea Tegethoff	Pregnancy and Childbirth on TV in Germany and Britain
			Ingrid von Rosenberg	Parenthood: the Most Private/Public Affair. Public Discourses on Birth and Family Planning from the 19th Century to the Present
			Anja Hänsch	Barbara Duden, Judith Butler and Birth: Contentions about Body Theory Revisited
			Wolfgang Funk	A Time to Die: Debates on Euthanasia in British Culture
			Marie Hologa	Bursting the Bubble’: the Embryo in the Age of Visualisation
			Christian Lenz	Excuse Me, Has This Life Been Taken?’ Killing, Death and Resurrection in Contemporary British Horror Movies
			Gerold Sedlmayr	The Dialectics of Birth and Death in the British TV Drama Series Skins (2007ff)