H-Death is a scholarly network that explores the multitude of historical issues surrounding the process and experience of dying and death. The H-Death network will allow scholars to compare and contrast the processes and experiences of dying and death across time and space, including American, European and non-Western contexts.
The 2020 Lawrence W. Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians, for the best book in American cultural history, has been awarded to Speaking with the Dead in Early America<https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16014.html> by Erik R. Seeman (University at Buffalo).
A comprehensive study of how burial customs highlight social status and class
Editors: Dr. Allan Amanik - Assistant Professor in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Dr. Kami Fletcher - Associate Professor of American and African American History at Albright College
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Online Workshop: “Mourning on the Margins”
Dates: 4, 11, 18 November 2020
The Collective for Radical Death Studies (CRDS) is the radical shift Death Studies needs and thereby serves as a source of knowledge for how death practitioners, death care professionals, students and scholars alike can all better understand deathways of people of color and marginalized groups. Sources that may be of most value to you most are the CRDS Rad Death Canon, the
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technologies-human-corpse
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today.
