Papers at the Dying and Death III, International Conference

Third International Conference on Dying and Death in 18th – 21st Century
Refiguring Death Rites in Europe
Ramet, Alba Iulia , 3 – 5 September 2010

Accepted papers for presentation:

R. Becarelli, E. Locatelli, M. Sozzi (Italy), Contemporary features of death: a research over 52 mortuary chapels of health structures in Piedmont, Italy

Désirée Boschetti, Barbara Ottaviani (Italy), Awareness of Terminality, Criteria for the psychological investigation of levels of awareness of terminality in cancer patients

Oana Elena Branda (Romania), War on terror: the new face of death

Virgiliu Birladeanu (Republic of Moldova), The Victims of Tweeter revolution: from Justice to Commemoration

Francesco Faeta (Italy), Behind the Silence of Cemeteries. Imago Mortis Revisited

Giorgio Praderio, Luigi Bartolomei (Italy), NEW ARCHITECTURES FOR FUNERAL HOUSES IN THE CONTEMPORARY SECULARIZED ITALIAN SOCIETY

Ludmila Cojocari(Republic of Moldova) LudmilaMay 9 in the republic of Moldova (2001-2009): between the commemoration of Victory and cult of the dead

Mihai Chiper (Romania), Honour and Death in the Militarist Discourse, Romania 1859-1918

Alina Felea (Republic of Moldova), Some Information on the Image of Death in 18th century Moldova

Hilary Grainger (UK) A Modernist Architectural Expression of Cremation: A Scottish Perspective

Olga Gradinaru (Romania), Two Deaths and Two Destinies: Rasputin and the Imperial

Tino Grasi (Italy), The Space of the Ashes

Gevher Gökçe Acar (Turkey), TWO DIFFERENT CULTURES, TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES ON DEATH-PLACE RELATIONSHIP – DEATH CULT AND CEMETERIES IN VIENNA AND ISTANBUL IN the 18th AND 19th CENTURIES

Antonella Grossi (Italy), Dans les « jardins du souvenir ». Expérience de la mémoire dans les cimetières de Paris. Premières notes de terrain

Zanita Halimi (Kosovo), Roadside Memorials in Kosova after war 1999 : An Ethnological approach

Silviu Hariton (Romania/Hungary)The Romanian Dead in the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and their Public Commemoration in Romania, 1880s-1910s

Emiliya Karaboeva (Bulgaria) Commemorating the dead. Bulgarian street necrologs in comparative perspective

Ilona Kemppainen (Finland), Death and modernization

Birgitte Due (Denmark), Palliative Cares in Denmark

Anna E. Kubiak (Poland), Atrocities of von Hagens and sacrifice’s crisis

Bożena Józefów (Poland), Other World – Relics of the Pagan Belief in Polish Folk Culture,

Diarmuid Johnson (Poland –UK), Attitudes Towards Death and Dying in the Oral and Written Literatures of the Celtic Languages since the 18th Century

Emilie Jaworski (France), Commémorations et deuils nationaux en Pologne. Entre héritage symbolique et nouvelles réalités sociales.

Revd Dr Peter C. Jupp (UK), Inverness crematorium: a challenge to the Highland way of death?

Mirjam Klaassens (The Netherlands), Natural burial in the Netherlands: who chooses for natural burial and why?

Sergiy V. Kurbatov (Ukraine), Death as a Factor of Creation the Cultural Reality: the Cases of Socrates and Hamlet

Anne Markussen (Denmark), Inverse Cremation and organ donation rates / Taking another Look at Bodily Disposal and Religion

Olivia Ministeri (Italy), Virtual cemeteries. A new way of grief processing?

Bogdan Neagota, Ileana Benga (Romania) Ritual Happening and Personal Experience Within the Narrative-Ceremonial Funerary Complex. Case Studies from Caras-Severin and Arges counties

Marinos Kachrilas (Greece), Self induced death as a means of preserving personal and social integrity in times of warfare.

Natasha Mihailovic (UK), ‘Attitudes Towards the Dead Body in Eighteenth Century England’

Olga Nesporova, (Czech Republic), New Phenomena: Roadside Memorials

Zdeněk R. Nešpor, (Czech Republic), Building of Crematoria in the Czech Republic: Social and Ideological Issue

Marianna Nitu (Romania), Commemorating the dead in space and time

Brian Parsons (UK), European Influences on the Development of Cremation in Great Britain

Andreea Pop (Romania), Forgotten Heritage of Memory and Commemoration - assemblies and funerary monuments in Romania

Florenţa Popescu-Simion (Romania), Crosses on the roads– Romanian marks of violent deaths in the public space

Cyril Schafer New Zealand & Paul Voninski (United States of America), Memorialisation on the Information Superhighway: Life, Death, and Remembrance in the Cloud

Christine Schlott (Germany), Undertaker in Leipzig (Germany) – Ritual Specialists in Secular Time

Irina Stahl (Romania), Les croix de la ville de Bucarest, Problèmes de sociologie religieuse

Josef Schovanec (Czech Republic), The East in the West: death and new religions – the example of Bahai faith and Theosophy

Adela Toplean (Romania), Crossroads Between Modern Death And Secular Sacred

Veronese S., Gallo G., Valle A., Rivoiro C., Oliver D.J (Italy), . SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICE FOR PEOPLE SEVERELY AFFECTED BY NEURODEGENERATIVE CONDITIONS: DOES THIS MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO PALLIATIVE CARE OUTCOMES? RESULTS OF NE-PAL - AN EXPLORATIVE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.

Nikolay Vukov (Bulgaria), COLLECTIVE INTERMENTS: OSSUARIES AND BROTHERLY MOUNDS IN BULGARIA AFTER 1944

Ken Worpole (UK), THE MODERN HOSPICE MOVEMENT: A QUIET REVOLUTION IN END OF LIFE CARE

Maria Xenaki (Greece), Grieving alone? Towards an understanding of the experience of bereaved single parents: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Lilia Zabolotnaia (Republic of Moldova), Aspects of the funeral rite in Terra Moldavia and of the Eastern Slavs after the testimony of foreign travelers (XVI-XVIII). A comparative approach.

Václav Grubhoffer (Czech Republic), Dying, death and funeral ceremonies of Austrian aristocracy in the 19th century Habsburg Monarchy. (On example of the Schwarzenberg family).

Julie Rugg (UK), Cemeteries and modernity: new narrative frameworks

Maria Luisa Yzaguirre (Spain), THE ASSOCIATION OF SIGNIFICANT CEMETERIES IN EUROPE (ASCE)

Stefan Borbely (Romania), Death and Work. Or: Death by Work? A Classical Case Study: Marx

Constantin Bogdan (Romania), A complex approach and Therapy End of life - doctors, moral, social, spiritual - Palliative Care

Dying and Death conference - abstract proposals' evalution

Wednesday at the latest we will finish the evalution of the abstract proposals received for the third edition of our conference Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe which will be held at Ramet (Alba Iulia), between 3-5 of september 2010. After that in the same day I will post here on this blog the list of the accepted proposal for a presentation at our conference. So, stay here for news! Just a short notification for now: the majority of these abstract proposals have a high scientific level and these will be accepted at our conference!

A picture taken by me in Adevarul newspaper

Today the famous romanian newspaper Adevarul, having the largest circulation in Romania as a newpaper, published a picture taken by me into the Central Cemetery of Alba Iulia: http://www.adevarul.ro/actualitate/eveniment/Pagina_cititorului_0_264574089.html
This picture shows the crisis of the burial places in urban area of Romanian of nowadays.
First time I posted this picture on this blog *a burial place between corns!

Dying and Death III Conference - some news

I will attend at the Congres International d'etudes sur les Dances Macabre et l'art Macabre en General which will be held at Sibiu, Romania between 20 and 23 of May 2010. I will present a paper about the issues of cremation in Romania of nowadays. For this reason I have to postpone the evalution of the abstract proposals of the third edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference until the beginning of next week. We have received abstract proposal from 20 countries and this situation makes me to believe this edition of the conference will be the most extended edition on comparasion with the previous ones. Particulary I'm so very glad because the cremation topic of the conference will be covered very well. The most abstract proposals we received from Italy (9) and UK (6).
Also, Peter C. Jupp will attend at our conference but, unfortunately Tony Walter is not able to come because he is very busy. Hilary Grainger and Brian Parsons are also two very important researchers will come to Romania attending at the conference.

News

1. There are just two days until then you can send us abstract proposals for the third edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, which will be held at Ramet (Alba Iulia), between 3-5 of September 2010. Until now we have received abstract proposals from researchers from 12 countries! I'm very happy because we will have participants from "new" countries at our conference (Ukraine, Germany, USA, Kosovo, New Zeeland, Bulgaria and maybe Turcia and Denmark)!
2. I moved my list of the Famous Cremated Romanians on the Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association's website: http://www.incinerareamurg.ro/romani-celebri-care-au-fost-incinerati Until now I have identified about 700 famous romanians who prefered to be cremated!
3. Here is the website of XIVème CONGRÈS internationalD’ÉTUDES SUR LES DANSES MACABRES ET L’ART MACABRE EN GÉNÉRAL, SIBIU,TRANSYLVANIE (ROUMANIE)20 - 23 MAI 2010: http://imagomortis.ro/ (this is in french language)

Third Edition of Dying and Death Conference - situation of abstract proposals

For the third edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, International Conference *3-5 september 2010, Ramet, Alba Iulia, Romania* until now we have received abstract proposals from Italy, The Netherlands, UK, Republic of Moldavia, New Zeeland, USA, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Romania. Also, researchers from Estonia, Turcia, Sweden and Serbia expressed their wishes to attend at our conference.
The deadline for sending us abstract proposals is 15 of May 2010 at the following e-mails: mrotar2000@yahoo.com ; eric.venbrux@gmail.com or marina.sozzi@fastwebnet.it

NEWS

1. I remind to you that the deadline for sending us abstract proposals for participation at the third edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference is 15 OF MAY 2010. This conference will be held at Ramet, Alba Iulia, Romania, between 3-5 of September 2010.

2. In these days, the Romanian Parliament debates a new Law on Cemeteries, Crematoria and Funeral Services in our country. Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association as the new voice of Romanian Cremationist Movement will express an official position upon this law. Please visit www.incinerareamurg.ro if you are interested in the cremation issues in Romania.