Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

About the Symposium

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Mortality, death  and dying: philosophical and social perspectives is an international and interdisciplinary symposium which addresses broad questions connected to mortality, death and dying from various philosophical and social-scientific perspectives.

Keynote lectures are given by Professor Stefan Timmermans (UCLA) and Professor Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University).

Stefan Timmermans works as a Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles. His research draws from medical sociology and science studies and uses ethnographic and historical methods to address key issues in the for-profit U.S. health care system, including death and dying. He has co-edited Handbook of Medical Sociology (2010) and written Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths (2006).

Jeff McMahan works as a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His research interests are in medical ethics and international ethics. He is the author of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (2002) and Killing in War (2009).

Symposium is part of the Human Mortality project (2011-2013) which aims to discuss death, dying and mortality in an interdisciplinary network. Project is funded by Finnish Cultural Foundation as part of the Argumenta funding model. Argumenta projects are intended to stimulate dialogue between researchers in different fields of science on significant current subjects of research. The project brings together scholars from different fields to discuss topics, such as:  How have definitions of death changed? In what ways is the meaning of death changing? Why death studies are a current topic today?

Contact information:

Outi J. Hakola
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Finland
Email: outi.j.hakola@helsinki.fi
Phone: +358 9 191 21734