HERE IS SOME ADVANCE PUBLICITY ABOUT A CONFERENCE
A Cumberland Lodge residential conference
Changing Expectations of Death
Friday 23rd November
17.00 Arrival, Registration and Tea
17.30 Welcome by Dr Alastair Niven, Principal, Cumberland Lodge
17.45 Changing Patterns of Death and Dying Plenary 1
Dr George Leeson, Co-Director, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Professor Tom Kirkwood, Associate Dean for Ageing, Newcastle University
19.15 Reception in the Drawing Room followed by 19.30 Dinner
21.00 The Privacy of Death Plenary 2
Nell Dunn, author and playwright of Home Death, with readings by Eunice Roberts
Saturday 24th November
08.15 Breakfast
09.00 What the End of Life Should be Like Plenary 3
Eve Richardson, CEO, The National Council for Palliative Care
Baroness Ilora Finlay of Llandaff, Professor of Palliative Medicine
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Bereavement and Grief Services Plenary 4
Dr Kate Woodthorpe, University of Bath
Professor Douglas Davies, University of Durham
12.30 Lunch followed by free time to enjoy the Great Park
15.00 The Ends of Life Plenary 5
Canon Dr James Woodward, Canon Steward, St George’s Chapel, Windsor
Professor Helen Small, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
16.30 Tea
17.00 Changing Rituals around Death Plenary 6
Professor Linda Woodhead, Director, AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme,
Lancaster University
18.15 Pay bar followed by 18.45 Dinner
20.30 Autonomy and Assisted Dying Plenary 7
Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve
Sunday 25th November
08.15 Breakfast
09.00 How different communities cope with death Plenary 8
Rose Thompson, Director, BME Cancer Communities
Professor Tony Walter, Professor of Death Studies, University of Bath
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Dying Young and Dying Old Plenary 9
Dr Adrian Tookman, Director of the Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead
Bridget Lee, Psychological Therapies Team Manager, Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead
12.20 Wrap Up
Professor Tom Kirkwood
12.30 Lunch followed by Departure
Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor SL4 2HP T: 01784 497794
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