While we received a high volume of truly exciting submissions for the conference Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to TodayLink opens in a new window, we are extending the deadline to further the interdisciplinarity of the event! As such, we are encouraging abstracts analysing contemporary discourses or intermedial representations of death in life across fields including (but not limited to): queer and sex studies, human rights, criminology, sociology, and medical humanities. We are particularly keen to receive abstracts concerned with matters such as neoliberal violence, carceral culture, necropolitics, moral panics, biopolitics and moral and democratic decay.

The event will take place at the University of Warwick on the 7th of March 2025. The deadline to submit an abstract is now the 22nd of December. This interdisciplinary conference is sponsored by the University of Warwick's Humanities Research Centre.

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts!

Kindest regards,

Airelle Amédro Link opens in a new windowand Enrica LeydiLink opens in a new window

The Humanities Research Fund (HRF) is now accepting applications for activities that are to be carried out between 1 August 2024 - 31 July 2025.

The deadline for Round 2 funding is Monday, 14 October 2024.

Funding is available to support research activity in the Faculty of Arts, including:

• Pump-priming to kick-start new, innovative research projects
• Conference travel
• Publication costs
• Membership of key societies/associations

Please note that this fund requires a 10% departmental contribution.

For more details and to apply please see:

https://warwick.ac.uk/services/ris/researchstrategy/researchfunding/rdf/hrf/Link opens in a new window

Enquiries can be directed to WarwickHRF@warwick.ac.uk