Encountering Corpses

Encountering Corpses III takes place on 8th-9th December 2017 at Manchester Metropolitan University. Part of @MMU_RAH and the @ESRC seminar series

[Haunt Manchester @hauntMCR]

Greatly enjoyed presenting HAUNT Manchester to #thrillofthedark conference in Birmingham today. Thanks to all the organisers for a very stimulating 3 days! 💀💀💀

[Bad Language @BadLanguageMcr]

Celebrate weird fiction by wonderful women with @rosieauthor, @sammillsauthor and @AbiFaro reading from @boudiccapress's Disturbing The Beast. May 8th at @BlackwellsMcr. Free tickets available now. https://t.co/ARScUgSUOT

[Haunt Manchester @hauntMCR]

Today @EmilyvOldfield from the @hauntMCR team is looking forward to attending the 'Death in Performance Symposium' in Salford at the @NA_Theatre, an innovative and important event co-produced by @SalfordUni and @SICKfestival.

[Haunt Manchester @hauntMCR]

Representing HAUNT and @gothicmmu at the Thrill of the Dark conference 💀💀💀

[Haunt Manchester @hauntMCR]

.@hauntMCR's @EmilyvOldfield is at @SICKfestival & @SalfordUni's Death and Performance Symposium today - currently listening to a fascinating panel on Staging Death and Grief with @QtineMcr! So many crucial themes have already been raised, and good to talk to @iAMdebbiesharp too.

[SICK! @SICKfestival]

Fantastic start to #DeathandPerformance with insights from Mats Staub (digital artist), Prof. Mahesh Nirmalan (Manchester Royal Infirmary) and Steven Eastwood (Documentary Film Maker) on death & birth in our lives.

Steven introduced us to his beautiful project @IslandFilmUK.

[Andrew Brooks @AndrewPBrooks]

Here’s a new interview on @hauntMCR/@visit_mcr about my Secret Cites photography projects, where I explore forgotten parts of modern cities https://t.co/xzXAumGMpI

Here’s some images from #Manchester that are talked about in the interview, lots more here https://t.co/QyJxijWmU8

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

'There are some kinds of fears that seduce us rather than repel us.' Prof. Helaine Silverman opens the #ThrilloftheDark conference in the 'Theatre of Fear' at @bmi1854 @IronbridgeInst

[Haunt Manchester @hauntMCR]

New event listing on HAUNT - looking forward to this from @BadLanguageMcr! Join them + celebrate weird fiction by wonderful women with @rosieauthor, @sammillsauthor and @AbiFaro reading from @boudiccapress's Disturbing The Beast. May 8th at @BlackwellsMcr: https://t.co/d2DhwZvp3Z

[Haunt Manchester @hauntMCR]

Ken Drinkwater (Psychology) and @FCocchiarella (Interior Design) from @ManMetUni presenting about their parapsychology research @OrdsallHall at The Thrill of the Dark conference Birmingham #ThrilloftheDark

[Encountering Corpses @EncounterManMet]

Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s #EncounteringCorpses IV! We’ll be back...

[Dr. Poppy Wilde @PoppyWilde]

Edwards concludes with an example of decomposition of the human body not harnessed for humanistic ends, but a transfer to the non-human world #encounteringcorpses #posthuman #deathstudies #deathlifecontinuum https://t.co/YgoHfkM3wC

[Jessica @Jessiliu_face]

Really enjoyed explaining what we do @FaceLabLJMU at @EncounterManMet as part of the ‘Encountering the post-human corpse: death and technology’#encounteringcorpses

[Encountering Corpses @EncounterManMet]

Craig Young wraps up the event and shares the Encountering Corpses blog where you can find project updates. Don’t forget to come next year for explorations of pet death #EncounteringCorpses

[Encountering Corpses @EncounterManMet]

Erin: “Actively feeding the human body to other organisms (here mushrooms) breaks the traditional perception of humans as the consumers, not the consumed” #EncounteringCorpses

[Dr. Poppy Wilde @PoppyWilde]

How can we demarcate our own living from the fuelling of our lives by corpse juice? Prof Erin Edwards references Cyclonopedia and links to Bennett's #vibrantmatter https://t.co/gEkATHZ6sm @EncounterManMet #EncounteringCorpses #deathstudies

[Dr. Poppy Wilde @PoppyWilde]

Interesting considering of the way in which becoming earth might be instead embodied through becoming machine-the vitality of the body is harnessed in an alternative way. What is the place of decomposition in contemporary dealings with death? #EncounteringCorpses @EncounterManMet

[Dr. Poppy Wilde @PoppyWilde]

Upton Sinclair demonstrates how we already harness the corpse power of non-human others.While this may be deemed positive in terms of the utilisation of everything, it also shows our close intimate relationship with death through life already #EncounteringCorpses @EncounterManMet

[Encountering Corpses @EncounterManMet]

Erin shows the annual cost of burial in the US #EncounteringCorpses

[Encountering Corpses @EncounterManMet]

Erin: We can understand the living on a functional difference from the dead, but on a molecular level this boundary is challenged #EncounteringCorpses