ARE WE ENTITLED TO CHOOSE HOW WE DIE?
Thursday January 30th 2020, 5:45pm – 7pm,
Oakeshott Room, Berrow Foundation Building, Lincoln College, Oxford.
MARIA STAMATOPOULOS
Maria Stamatopoulou is Associate Professor in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Classical Archaeology at Lincoln College. She studied History, Archaeology, and History of Art at the University of Athens before moving to Oxford to complete her Master of Studies in Archaeology and DPhil in Classical Archaeology at Somerville. Her research interests are in Greek Archaeology from the Archaic to Late Hellenistic periods (7th-1st centuries B.C.), with a focus on Thessaly and Macedonia; her doctoral thesis examined the Classical and Hellenistic funerary archaeology of the region. Dr. Stamatopoulou is the author of numerous publications, including Dining and Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the ‘Funerary Banquet’ in Ancient Art, Burial, and Belief(2016) and From Alcestis to Archidike: Thessalian Attitudes to Death and the Afterlife (2018).
AMY PROFFITT
Amy Proffitt is Deputy Medical Director and Consultant in Palliative Medicine at St. Christopher’s Hospice in London; she also serves as Vice President of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland and as an Honorary Consultant at Kings College Hospital. She received her M.D. from the University of Oxford in 2004 and undertook further training in haematology before discovering a passion for palliative medicine. Committed to the mentorship of junior doctors and medical students, Dr. Proffitt also received a Master’s in Medical Education from Nottingham University. She works closely with the Royal College of Physicians as the Ambitions for End of Life Care representative and serves as a representative for the NHS England End of Life Programme Board. She speaks regularly at national conferences and has produced publications on the topic of assisted death and palliative medicine.
SELINA ABAECHERLI
Selina Abaecherli studied Social Anthropology and Classics as an undergraduate at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and is now pursuing a Master of Science in Social Anthropology at Oxford. Her research interests include the study of social institutions and how institutional knowledge affects the perception of human life. She is particularly interested in the development of the specialist narratives that form the foundation of practices of state regulation and intervention, such as in welfare policies, and the tension between individuals and institutions. She has conducted ethnographic research in Assam and Delhi, connecting studies of mental health actors with discourses of transnational epidemiology. For the MSc, Selina aims to develop a theoretical framework to engage with law-making processes in Sri Lanka and to analyse the empirical relationship of these processes to constitutional law.
MADELINE KETLEY
Chair
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