IAPDD will be holding its sixth biennial conference June 9-11, 2026 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Program presenters and titles
Kiki Berk, Resisting Death: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Dying
Adam Buben, The Dignity of the Dead and Completing Their Projects: Some Sartrean Reservations about Digital Reanimation
Will Cailes, Transformative Dying and Rationality of Suicide
Kam-Ho Chan, Even in Arcadia: Hedonism and the Good Death
Michael Cholbi, Dying Generously
Ian Church, The Need for Narratives when Facing Death
Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre and Jocelyn Maclure, Postmortem AI Avatars: Simulation or Simulacrum? Considerations on the Ethics of Griefbots
Alexandre Erler, Reanimating the Dead: Digital Afterlives and the Ethics of Consent
Christopher Fruge, Artifactual Rights of the Dead
Nozomi Ichikawa, Reclaiming Death in Everyday Life: The Sociocultural Significance of “Death Fes” as a Citizen-Led Cultural Practice in Japan
Ryota Ishihara, Death and Lament: A Deprivationist Argument against Lamenting Death
Jens Johansson and Magnus Jedenheim-Edling, The Well-Being of the Dead
Nana Kawamura and Masashi Takeshita, What’s Wrong with Being Menhera?: Individual Resistance to Suicidism in Japan
Yulie Kim, The Tensions of Dying with Dignity: Analyzing the Socio-Ethical Implications of Physician-Assisted Death Legalization in South Korea
Yael Lavi, Die Hard: Thoughts from Times of War and Death
Christos Lazaridis, Debunking Death: The Social Construction of the Determined to be Dead
Yannick Marszalek, Fearing Death as the Inconceivable: A Philosophical and Psychological Analysis
Mousa Mohammadian, The Authority of the Dying: A Critical Look at Deathbed Regret
İnci Öztürk, Prudential Concern and Relativism
Mone Sakata, Informed Consent for Cryonics as a Transformative Experience
Diogo Santos, Assessing the Historical Condition: A Response to Yi
Lucas Scripter, Animal Grief and Meaning in Human and Other Animal Lives
Riin Sirkel, The Stoic Practice Concerning Death: Premeditatio Malorum
Patrick Stokes, Posthumous Privacy and Time
Uku Tooming, Death and Imaginative Resistance
Muk Yan Wong, Pet Euthanasia and Mono No Aware
Ying Yao, Attending to Mortality, Attending to Morality: Moral Transformation through Grief
Fumitake Yoshizawa, Which Comes First, Sum or Compare? Conceptual Priority in Evaluating Harm and Benefit
Conference schedule
To be announced, March 2026
Registration
Conference participants should register here. The deadline for registration is 22 May 2026.
Venues
Waseda University, Tokyo
Getting Around
Travel details to come
Accommodation
Travel details to come
