Month: December 2017
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Deploying the Dead II: Dead Bodies and Social Transformations – Call for Papers
Estella Weiss-Krejci Sebastian Becker Ladislav Šmejda This session is the second part of “Deploying the Dead” which was successfully launched at last year’s EAA in Maastricht. It explores the question of how the bodies of the long-dead and the material artefacts associated with them effect the living. We pursue an interdisciplinary methodology equally focused on…
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Progress of the DEEPDEAD project featured recently in European media
Ladislav Smejda was recently interviewed by Deutschlandfunk a German Radio station which was an exciting way to let the wider public know about wider ecological implications of the Research Project. The interview discusses how death can be both helpful and harmful to the environment due to the chemical components in our bodies being released…