Remembering the dead: artist-academic collaborations
After something of an unintended blogging hiatus - the end of project funding and being back into teaching is to blame - we've had good...
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Making the invisible visible – Day of the Dead, ofrendas and remembering in family life
Laura King, University of Leeds Any good collaboration should be mutually beneficial – ‘which is a formal way of saying bloody lovely’. So said Ellie...
Caring for our collaborators and ourselves in public engagement
Jessica Hammett (University of Leeds) with Ellie Harrison (The Grief Series) This blog post is about how we care for our participants and how we...
If life (and death) really were a picnic: when history and art come together
Laura King, University of Leeds How can we best communicate and share our research? As academic historians, our writing is always going to be crucial....
A Museum of Memories: Sharing grief stories on the Journey with Absent Friends
Jessica Hammett, University of Leeds It's been just over a month since we got back from the Journey with Absent Friends – a month long...
Food, our memories and bringing the dead back to life
We know that the smell and taste of a slice of gingerbread, a tangy curry, or a sip of homebrew can take us back to...
Journey with Absent Friends
During June, the ‘Living with Dying’ project are going on a Journey with Absent Friends with artist Ellie Harrison and ‘Team Grief’. In an ordinary, domestic...
Día de los Muertos in Leeds
A guest blog from Laura Loyola-Hernández In the last two decades, Halloween marketing around the globe has appropriated Día de los muertos (Day of the Dead)....
The Senses and Spaces of Death, Dying and Remembering
A conference to explore historical and contemporary perspectives. Bringing together, artists, academics and professionals working in a range of services relating to end of life,...
On continuing bonds, new landscapes and not stepping in poo
In his book ‘A grief observed’ C.S Lewis wrote: "Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally...