You are cordially invited to (a death salon) (a meditation on how to die in the 21st century) (a wake) (a séance) a symposium with tea and biscuits.
On November 21 2025, the former School of Humanities had its final day on the Sandy Bay campus of University of Tasmania.
On November 27 2025, Buddhist and Death Studies scholar, Dr Hannah Gould (UMelb) was in Tasmania to learn about aquamation at Alluvium Water Cremations.
Hannah and I met in Japan at the Japan Past and Present: Reimagining a Global Field Symposium earlier in the year and as soon as I heard she would be in Tasmania to think about death and stomp through the forests, I started planning the death studies salon.
HDR students and staff from across Humanities and Social Sciences diceplines came together to drink tea from fine china and think about the end of [things].
