ADSS Writing Seminar

The ADSS is pleased to announce an exciting seminar opportunity, designed especially for postgrads and ECRs. Please join us in Adelaide, at Flinders University on Friday 10 March 2023 for a workshop on work-in-progress writing about corpses, death, and dying, facilitated by leading international scholar Elisabeth Anstett.

Elisabeth Anstett is a social anthropologist, and a tenured Directrice de Recherche at the CNRS, a French state organisation that is also Europe’s largest fundamental science agency. Elisabeth is a member of Adès (Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé), an interdisciplinary research unit based at the faculty of medical and paramedical sciences of Aix-Marseille University that produces interdisciplinary works on dead bodies and human remains management and care in mass violence or crisis contexts. Elisabeth is also co-editor of the Human Remains and Violence book series and an interdisciplinary full free Open Access academic journal with Manchester University Press. She has published widely on human remains and received funding from French and European organisations. A trained anthropologist, Elisabeth has considerable experience working with scholars of other disciplines, including but not limited to sociology, history, archaeology, political sciences and the medical sciences.

A maximum of 10 spots are available for postgraduate early and mid-career academics to attend this writing seminar. The aim of the seminar is to discuss and workshop current papers in progress as a group, and to forge cross-disciplinary connections between those researching and writing in the field of death studies (broadly defined). Scholars across disciplines working on corpses, death and dying across time and space (including but not limited to anthropology, sociology, history, archaeology, law) are warmly invited to apply.

All participants will be required to submit a 3000-word draft (or excerpt) of their paper by 20 February 2023, so that it can be circulated to other seminar attendees. All participants are expected to read all papers prior to the seminar. Additionally, each participant will be asked to briefly present another scholar’s paper at the seminar, in order to generate supportive and interdisciplinary feedback.

Those interested in participating in the seminar are invited to fill up this google form by 30 November 2022. Applicants will need to submit a 200 word abstract of their paper. Room location, time, lunch and drinks and other practical information will be provided to selected applicants. This is a free event.

For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact Dr Romain Fathi.