The Final Programme of Dying and Death in 18th-21srt centuries Europe, International Conference, second edition

Conference Programme:

Thursday, 24 September

20:00 Diner „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia Restaurant
Friday, 25 September

8:00: Breakfast: Hotel Parc, Alba Iulia; „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia Restaurant

10:30: Opening Ceremony: Union Hall, National Museum of Unification

Moise Ioan Achim, President of „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Gabriel Rustoiu, Director of National Museum of Unification
Local Authorities, Sponsors
Peter C. Jupp – University of Durham, UK
Tony Walter - University of Bath, UK
Victor Tudor Rosu - National Museum of Unification
Marius Rotar - „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

12:00: The varnishing day of „Beliefs and Funerary Rites in Apulum: Homes for the World Beyond" exhibition organized by The Systemic Archaeology Institute (IAS - director PhD. Mihai Gligor), "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia

13:00: Lunch Pub13

15:00: Cemeteries and their destiny (chair: Peter C. Jupp)
Location: Apor Palace, “1 Decembrie 1918” University
15:00- 15:30 Julie Rugg (UK), Towards a new social history of rural churchyards
15:30-16:00 Mihaela Grancea (Romania), Une courte histoire de l’historiographie de l’épitaphe
16:00-16:30 Mihai Burlacu (Romania), Cemeteries' destiny in the istro-romanian villages - An anthropological viewpoint

16:30 Coffee break

16:45: Cremation and scaterring the ashes (chair Julie Rugg)
Location: Apor Palace, “1 Decembrie 1918” University

16:45-17:15 Peter C. Jupp (UK), Ethics of Cremation
17:15-17:45 Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote (The Netherlands), Contemporary Dutch crematoria; their sense of place
17:45-18:15 Marius Rotar, Cosmin Bodrean (Romania), Point of No Return: Proposal for a Romanian Cremation Association (AMURG)
18:15-18:45 Emile Jaworski (France – Polland), Cremation and post-modernity: the case of Polish society
18:45-19:15 Lajos Hodi (Hungary), Szeged crematorium - past, present and future

19:30: Dinner: „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia Restaurant
Saturday, 26 september 2009

8:00 Breakfast:
Hotel Parc, Alba Iulia
„1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia Restaurant

9:00 Religion and the meaning of Death (chair Helen Frisby):
Location: Lecture Room, National Museum of Unification

9:00-9:30 D. Vanca (Romania), Liturgy of funerals in The Orthodox Church at the end of 17th and beginning of 18th century, reflected into the first Romanian printed books
9:30-10:00 Corneliu Simut (Romania), Understanding Death in the 21st Century: Vito Mancuso and His Re-Assessment of the Christian Teaching on Death from the Perspective of Man's Historical Experience

10:00: History of Death (chair: Joanna Wojtkowiak )
Location: Lecture Room, National Museum of Unification

10:00-10:15 Radu Ota, Representations of Thanatos in the funerary iconography from Apulum
10:15-10:45 Serban Anghelescu (Romania), Mourir en Ilyada
10:45-11:15 Mircea Cristea (Romania), Le Poison et la mort dans l'alchime medieval europeean
11:15-11:45 Silvia Marin (Romania), Accompagner Saint Christophe, le protecteur contre «la male mort». Des thèmes eschatologiques dans l'iconographie occidentale et roumaine

11:45 Coffee break

12:00: History of Death (chair: Joanna Wojtkowiak )
Location: Lecture Room, National Museum of Unification

12:00-12:30 Natasha Mihailovic (UK), Living with the Dead: Burial Places in English Towns c.1700-1840
12:30-13:00 Cristina Bogdan (Romania), La Roue de la Vie mène à la Mort. Parcours d'un thème iconographique dans l'espace roumain et bulgaire (XVIIe-XIXe siècles)
13:00-13:30 Nicu Mihai (Romania), Mourir pour sa patrie: la « culture révolutionnaire » de la mort en Europe de l’Est au milieu du XIXe siècle

13:30 Lunch: Pub13

15:00 History of Death II (chair Nicu Mihai)
Location: Lecture Room, National Museum of Unification

15:00-15:30 Olga Gradinaru (Romania), The Russian Path from Corpse to Relic – A History of the Russian Orthodox Relic Cult
15:30-16:00 Aleksandra Vuletic (Serbia), Infanticide – between private and public concern in Serbia c.1800-c.1860
16:00-16:30 Helen Frisby (UK), ‘These horrid superstitions’: death and dying amongst the English ‘folk’, c.1840-c.1914
16:30-17:00 Constantin Mihai (Romania), Martyrical death in the Romanian communist reclusion

17:00 Coffee break

17:15 Place of dead, rites of death (chair Natasha Mihailovic)
Location: Lecture Room, National Museum of Unification

17:15-17:45 Laura Pop (Romania), Traditional in after funeral commemorations of the death in the XX century in some rural communities from central area of Transylvania (Romania)
17:45-18:15 Joanna Wojtkowiak & Janneke Peelen(The Netherlands), Preserving social existence of the dead: the importance of ritual
18:15-18:45 Hanna J. Rumble (UK), 'Woodland Burial: a contemporary burial innovation in Britain'
18:45-19:15 Sarah Mezaguer (France), Les représentations dramatisées de la mort

20:00: Official Reception: Bucerdea Vinoasa
Sunday, 27 September
9:40: Meeting of Romanian participants for organizing RADS
10:00: Place of dead, rites of death (chair Hanna Rumble)
Location: Lecture Room, National Museum of Unification

10:00-10:30 Ann Malamah-Thomas (UK), Adapting to Loss: Do Nations Grieve?
10:30-11:00 Tony Walter (UK), Why different countries do death differently: a comparison of modern urban societies

11:00 Coffee break

11:15-11:45 Anna Kubiak (Poland), The social memoralization of death on the Web
11:45-12:15 Aleksandra Pavicevic (Serbia), Welcoming Dead. Bringing and caring through famous deceased. Case of Serbia

12:15-13:00 Visiting the National Museum of Unification

13: Lunch Pub13

15:00 Culture and Death (chair Tony Walter)
Location: Lecture Room, National Museum of Unification

15:00-15:30 M. Comsa (Romania), Meurtre et suicide dans les récits de l’écrivain québécois Hubert Aquin
15:30-16:00 Andrada Fatu (Romania), Opiates and Representations of Death
16:00-16:30 Victor Tudor Rosu (Romania), Death Mirrors of La Grande Guerre in Interwar French Films
16:30-17:00 Adriana Teodorescu (Romania), Les masques. Aspects de l'imaginaire actuel de la mort
17:00-17:30 Florina Codreanu (Romania), Irrelevance of Death in Postmodern Era

17:30 Coffee break

17:45 Conclusions
Location: Lecture Room, National Museum of Unification

Tony Walter
Peter C. Jupp
Helen Frisby
Victor Tudor Rosu
Marius Rotar

19:00 Dinner Pub 13