Crossing Over: New Narratives of Death - Follow On

从2012年至2016年，多学科AHRC研究网络“跨越：死亡的新叙事”调查了当代死亡，丧亲之痛和纪念的变化。目前的项目旨在通过三个面向公众的活动将网络的工作带给更广泛的非学术受众：1.与志愿组织Calderdale Dying Matters Partnership合作举办两个创意写作研讨会。船体大学校园里的死亡咖啡馆活动。结束注释：一本以生命终结为主题的短篇小说电子书。创意写作工作坊建立在2015年网络与罗瑟勒姆临终关怀中心成功合作的基础上。该网络的成员与临终关怀工作人员合作，调查纪念物品的意义，即与已故亲人有联系的物品。他们的合作产生了一首集体诗。拟议中的卡尔德代尔研讨会将利用卡琳娜·克劳彻博士的考古专业知识，建立纪念意义和做法。利用这一资源，首席研究员大卫肯尼迪博士将领导研讨会的创意写作部分。Calderdale Dying Matters Partnership将通过确定场地并向Calderdale集水区的公众宣传研讨会来支持研讨会。死亡咖啡馆活动将向员工，学生和公众开放。它将借鉴各国在死亡咖啡馆方面的成功做法，提供一个积极和宽容的空间，讨论围绕生命终结的一系列问题，如拥有一个人想要的死亡类型，葬礼指示和丧亲之痛。当天的一系列活动将被用来开始这类对话。例如，死亡咖啡馆将使用彩色编码的Fink高级规划卡，为用户提供围绕生命结束的48个主题，以让他们思考。“结尾笔记”是一系列相互联系的短篇小说和创造性的非小说作品，探索死亡的不同方面。这些包括照顾临终和绝症患者、丧亲、悲伤和传统和非传统的仪式、哀悼和纪念仪式。有些作品将基于对那些濒临死亡的人的研究和采访（医院和临终关怀工作人员和医务人员，一位伊玛目和一位拉比），而另一些则借鉴了个人经验。该系列包括关于新闻死亡敲门的回忆录和采访;一个爱尔兰流亡者的两个非常不同的葬礼，一个在英国，第二个回到爱尔兰;天主教和犹太教的仪式和仪式;贵格会葬礼;尼日利亚和英国对死亡的不同态度;芬兰的鬼故事，以及世俗时代哀悼仪式中需要提高语言。“结束笔记”将跨越一系列的文化习俗，照亮了连接我们的东西。该系列将由船体大学创意写作讲师雷法国和凯思麦凯，谁将分别贡献两件作品编辑。其他六位作家也将参与其中。“End Notes”将采取电子书的形式，并将提供给所有主要的电子书零售商，并可转换为Mobi和epub。建议活动1和2将在2017年5月中旬举行的“死亡事件”全国宣传周期间进行。电子书将在同一时期推出。原始的“跨越”网络的工作及其部分成果可以在这里查看：http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/english/research/research-projects/crossing-over-network.aspx

From 2012-2016 the multi-disciplinary AHRC Research Network "Crossing Over: New Narratives of Death" investigated the changing face of contemporary death, bereavement and commemoration. The current project seeks to bring the network's work to wider, non-academic audiences through three public-facing activities: 1.Two creative writing workshops to be run in partnership with the voluntary organisation Calderdale Dying Matters Partnership.2. A Death Café event on the University of Hull campus.3. End Notes: an e-book of short stories themed around end of life.The creative writing workshops build on the network's successful collaboration in 2015 with Rotherham Hospice. Members of the network collaborated with Hospice staff to investigate the meaning of memorial objects, i.e. Objects which carried associations with a departed loved one. The collaboration produced a collective poem. The proposed Calderdale workshops will draw on Dr Karina Croucher's archaeological expertise to establish memorial meanings and practices. Using this resource, Principal Investigator Dr David Kennedy will then lead the creative writing part of the workshops. Calderdale Dying Matters Partnership will support the workshops by identifying venues and publicising the workshops to the general public in their Calderdale catchment area.The Death Café event will be open to staff, students and the general public. It will draw on successful national practice in Death Cafes to provide a positive and permissive space in which to discuss a range of issues surrounding end of life such as having the type of death one wants, funeral instructions and bereavement. A range of activities on the day will be used to start these sorts of conversations. For example, the Death Café will use colour coded Fink Advanced Planning cards which offer users a range of 48 topics surrounding end of life in order to get them thinking.'End Notes' is a series of interlinked short stories and creative non-fiction pieces that explore different aspects of mortality. These include caring for the dying and the terminally ill, bereavement, grieving, and rituals, mourning and remembrance ceremonies, both traditional and non-traditional. Some pieces would be based on research and interviews with people caring for those near death (hospital and hospice workers and medical staff, an imam and a rabbi), while others draw on personal experience. The collection encompasses a memoir and interviews about the journalistic death knock; the two very different funerals of an Irish exile, one in the UK and the second back in Ireland; Catholic and Jewish rituals and ceremonies; a Quaker funeral; the different attitudes towards death in Nigeria and the UK; a ghost story from Finland, and the need for heightened language in mourning ceremonies in a secular age. 'End Notes' will span a range of cultural practices, illuminating that which connects us. The collection will be edited by University of Hull creative writing lecturers Ray French and Kath McKay, who will each contribute two pieces. Six other writers will contribute. 'End Notes' would take the form of an ebook and would be made available to all major eBook retailers and convertible to both Mobi and epub.It is proposed that activities 1 and 2 will take place during Dying Matters national awareness week which will take place in mid May 2017. The e-book will be launched in the same period.The work of the original 'Crossing Over' network and some of its outputs can be viewed here:http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/english/research/research-projects/crossing-over-network.aspx