DeathTech Research Team

An interdisciplinary​ research team studying death, technology, and society in the 21st century. Based @unimelb

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Registration for the Redesigning Deathcare Conference 2022 is now open! Join us in Melbourne or online to #redesigndeathcare and reimagine the future of dying and death. #deathstudies @AusDeath @DeathRef @asds_death @cendeathsociety
https://t.co/SB6x2V6orr

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The draft full program for Redesigning Deathcare 2022 is now live!!! Join us for great conversations about cemeteries, grief, art, medicine, aged care, justice, technology and much more. Register by October 1st! #deathstudies #redesigndeathcare https://t.co/QoQ4fP8yZ6

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We are also pleased to be able to offer a limited number of bursaries to support attendance. The bursaries are open to anybody whose circumstances would otherwise prevent them from attending (e.g. unwaged or low-waged). Applications close 1st August 2022 https://t.co/tjqHIcSdmi

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Registration for the Redesigning Deathcare Conference 2022 is now open! Join us in Melbourne or online to #redesigndeathcare and reimagine the future of dying and death. #deathstudies @AusDeath @DeathRef @asds_death @cendeathsociety
https://t.co/SB6x2V6orr

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Registrations for Redesigning Deathcare will open this Friday, 17th June. Join us in Melbourne or online to #redesigndeathcare and hear from speakers in academia, industry, and the community.
https://t.co/ZZTFQMZ7tK
#redesigndeathcare #deathstudies

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Our final keynote is the hilarious @annielouey. Annie Louey is a multi-talented comedian and presenter who moves seamlessly between television, radio and stage. She is recipient of the Moosehead Award to support her Comedy Festival show ‘Annie Louey is Flirting With Death’

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Having been brought up in a culture that keeps death on the down low, Annie is about to blow the coffin wide open."

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Registrations for Redesigning Deathcare open THIS FRIDAY! Join us in Melbourne or online to #redesigndeathcare and hear from Caitlin and other wonderful speakers from academia, industry, and the community.

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Very excited to announce our next Keynote Speaker for the Redesigning Deathcare Conference 2022: Caitlin Doughty! @TheGoodDeath Caitlin will be joining us in Melbourne to present on "Engaging the public in deathly conversations" #deathstudies #deathpositive @asds_death @DeathRef

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Caitlin founded a Los Angeles funeral home as well as the funeral reform collective The Order of the Good Death, which spawned the death positive movement.

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We will be announcing our other two Keynotes next week as we count down to registration. Follow along for updates #redesigndeathcare #deathtech #deathstudies

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Very excited to announce Redesigning Deathcare 2022 first Keynote Speaker: anthropologist and mortician, Prof Ruth E. Toulson, presenting "The Moral Intimacies of Care for the Dead: Notes from a Chinese Mortuary" #redesigndeathcare #deathtech #deathstudies @asds_death @DeathRef

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What can we learn from seemingly ordinary deaths of ordinary people? From those who grieve for them, and those who tend to them?

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- The Future of Voluntary Assisted Dying
- The future of funerals
- Toward Minimum Quality Standards for Deathcare
- Dying with Droughts and Flooding Plains: Responding to Environmental Crisis
- The Role of Death in Medical Education
#redesigndeathcare #deathtech #deathstudies

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Redesigning Deathcare 2022: Countdown to Registration!

After a super enthusiastic response, we are in the process of finalising a larger venue. We expect that registration will open in the next month. In the meantime: some updates 🧵#redesigndeathcare #deathtech #deathstudies

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Here's a sneak-peak of some of the topics we will be discussing:
- Deathcare and Diverse Worldviews
- The Socially Activated Cemetery
- Future Dead Body Technology
- The role of deathcare in medico-legal investigations
- Exploring death futures through art and design