[csaa-forum] Critical Suicide Studies - (Invitation) 3rd Annual Conference 12-13 December 2018, The University of Western Austrlaia

[Rob Cover]

Dear colleagues and friends,

some of us, particularly those working health, philosophy, popular culture,
gender/sexuality and education contexts might be interested in the below
event invitation.

Cheers,
Rob :)


*Building Critical Bridges: The Third Conference of the Critical Suicide
Studies Network (a.k.a. CritSui3)   www.criticalsuicidology.net
<http://www.criticalsuicidology.net/>*





*You are warmly invited!*



Scholars, postgraduates and healthcare professionals, policy advocates and
community members are warmly invited to attend the 3rd Annual Critical
Suicide Studies Network Conference (CritSui3), held at The University of
Western Australia (Crawley campus in Perth, WA) 12-13 December.



This free, two-day event brings together people working in different
sectors, and scholars and policy advocates from more than ten different
countries to engage in a series of roundtable discussions and interactive
presentations to continue the process of building bridges towards finding
new, better, more effective approaches to understanding and responding to
suicide.





*What is Critical Suicide Studies?*



The Critical Suicide Studies Network presents an approach to understanding,
theorising and intervening in suicide from alternative perspectives. Such
perspectives have sought to find renewed, more critical ways of thinking
about suicide to address and respond to suicide where traditional
medico-psychological approaches have failed.



Many working within suicide research have become frustrated by the
limitations of dominant pathologising and medicalised approaches to suicide
research and prevention practices. Believing that suicide research is in
need of an ongoing critical re-thinking of its subject matter and a
broadening of it disciplinary basis, Critical Suicide Studies investigates
the *social, philosophic, psychological, literary and cultural practices of
making sense of suicide*, taking into account how suicide is shaped by
history, politics, identity, culture, media and power.  As an approach, it
works with service providers, communities and publics to develop nuanced
but useful accounts of suicide that can help build bridges across theory
and practice and affected communities. More info on Critical Suicide
Studies can be found at the Network’s website
https://criticalsuicidology.net/what-is-critical-suicidology/





*Themes and Roundtables*

-- The conference will be comprised of a series of roundtables, discussions
and presentation events, including:

-- Lived Experience of Suicide

-- Critical Methodologies

-- Indigenous knowledges

-- Gender and sexually-diverse persons, subjects and communities

-- Critical suicide approaches in practice (marginal and alternative
approaches)





*Conference Details—Further Information*

Location, accommodation, and other details can be found on the conference
pages at http://bit.ly/CritSui3.



Registration/RSVP *Essential*

Please register before 1 December 2018 by providing your details at:
http://bit.ly/CritSui3-regn





       With thanks, the convenors

       Rob Cover (UWA) and Katrina Jaworski (Adelaide)

       critsui3 at gmail.com







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*Assoc Professor Rob Cover*Deputy Head of School, Social Sciences
(Community and Engagement)

The University of Western Australia
Crawley WA 6009

Rm 1.16, Social Sciences Building
+61 8 6488 4305 wk
0437 902 967 sms

rob.cover at uwa.edu.au
Profile:    http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/rob.cover
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*ROB's RECENT BOOKS:*Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable
Lives? - http://bit.ly/qys2012
Vulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and
Ethics - http://bit.ly/VulnExp
Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self -
http://bit.ly/DigIdentities

Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a
Digital ERa - http://bit.ly/Em-Id
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