The Final Programme

Thursday, September 2

20:00 – Welcome Dinner
Location: Platoul Romanilor Restaurant

Friday, September 3

9:15 – Opening Ceremony
Location: Union Hall, National Museum of Unification

Speakers:
• Moise Ioan Achim – President of “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania
• Ion Dumitrel – President of Alba County, Romania
• Gabriel Rustoiu – Director of National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia, Romania
• Marina Sozzi - Ariodante Fabretti Foundation, University of Turin (Italy)
• Peter C. Jupp – University of Bristol (UK)
• Eric Venbrux – Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
• Gianfranco Fracarollo - Director of “Giovanni Morando Visconti” Italian Cultural Center of Alba Iulia (Romania)
• Cosmin Bodrean – Vice president of Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association (Romania)
• Victor Tudor Roşu – National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia (Romania)
• Marius Rotar – “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

10:15 – 10:30 – Coffee Break

10:30 – 13:30 – Session 1: Cultural History of Death
Location: Apor Palace
Chair: Ştefan Borbély
• Diarmuid Johnson (Poland –UK), Attitudes Towards Death and Dying in the Oral and Written Literatures of the Celtic Languages since the 18th Century
• Václav Grubhoffer (Czech Republic), Dying, death and funeral ceremonies of Austrian aristocracy in the 19th century Habsburg Monarchy. (An example of the Schwarzenberg family)
• Alina Felea (Republic of Moldova), Some Information on the Image of Death in 18th century Moldova
• Nicolae Mihai (Romania), Lutter contre les superstitions: Eglise orthodoxe roumaine et la culture populaire de la mort au milieu du XIXe siècle
• Mihai Chiper (Romania), Honor and Death in the Militarist Discourse, Romania 1859-1918
• Raluca Betea (Romania), Visual Representations of Death between Production and Reception.
A Case-Study on the Romanian Churches in Maramureş (18th-19th Century)

10:30 – 13:30 – Session 2: Commemoration of the dead in space and time
Location: Aula Magna room, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Chair: Ken Worpole
• Virgiliu Birladeanu (Republic of Moldova), The Victims of Tweeter revolution: from Justice to Commemoration
• Emiliya Karaboeva (Bulgaria) Commemorating the dead. Bulgarian street necrologs in comparative perspective
• Emilie Jaworski (France), Commémorations et deuils nationaux en Pologne. Entre héritage symbolique et nouvelles réalités sociales
• Malgorzata Zawila (Poland), Missing the Heroes
• Olga Nesporova, (Czech Republic), New Phenomena: Roadside Memorials
• Irina Stahl (Romania), Les croix de la ville de Bucarest. Problèmes de sociologie religieuse
• Bogdan Neagota, Ileana Benga (Romania) Ritual Happening and Personal Experience Within the Narrative-Ceremonial Funerary Complex. Case Studies from Caras-Severin and Arges counties


13:30 – 15:30 – Lunch
Location: Pub 13 Restaurant offer by Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association)

15:45 – 17:15 – Session 1: Cultural History of Death
Location: Apor Palace
Chair: Marina Sozzi

• Florenţa Popescu-Simion (Romania), Crosses on the roads– Romanian marks of violent deaths in the public space
• Cristinel Roman-Negoi, Ana Maria Roman Negoi (Romania), Maria Theresa and horses. The legend of the empress’s death in the Romanian contemporary mindset
• 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
• Adriana Teodorescu (Romania), The Death of the Star. Social and Cultural Issues

15:45 – 17:15 – Session 2: Commemorations and the Space of the Dead
Location: Aula Magna room, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Chair: Christine Schlott

• Ludmila Cojocari (Republic of Moldova), May 9 in the republic of Moldova (2001-2009): between the commemoration of Victory and cult of the dead
• Nikolay Vukov (Bulgaria), Collective Interments: Ossuaries and Brotherly Mounds in Bulgaria After 1944
• Olga Gradinaru (Romania), Two Deaths and Two Destinies: Rasputin and the Imperial Russia
• Golie Tataie (The Netherlands), A Transatlantic Love. On Photography and Memory

17:15 – 17:30 – Coffee Break

17:30 – 19:40 – Session 1: Cultural History of Death
Location: Apor Palace
Chair: Cyrill Schaffer

• Victor Tudor Roşu (Romania), The representations of American stars’ death in communist Romania
• Ştefan Borbély (Romania), Death and Work. Or: Death by Work? A Classical Case Study: Marx
• Laura Jiga Iliescu (Romania) Few considerations about the power of the ironsmith, as expressed in the ATU 331 and ATU 753 narratives
• Anna Kubiak (Poland), Atrocities of von Hagens and sacrifice’s crisis
• Claudiu Stefani (Romania), Social context of accidental dead. A content analysis of newspaper coverage

17:30 – 19:40 – Session 2: End of Life and Palliative Cares. Bereavement
Location: Aula Magna room, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Chair: Maria Xenaki

• Ken Worpole (UK), THE MODERN HOSPICE MOVEMENT: A QUIET REVOLUTION IN END OF LIFE CARE
• Constantin Bogdan (Romania), A complex approach and Therapy End of life - doctors, moral, social, spiritual - Palliative Care
• Cristina Maria Speranza, Bordea Medina, (Romania), Bereavement in children and adolescents
• 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 Tria.
• Désirée Boschetti, Barbara Ottaviani (Italy), Awareness of Terminality, Criteria for the psychological investigation of levels of awareness of terminality in cancer patients
P. Varese, N. Volgarino, P. Bellingeri, S. Bellinceri, M.Musso (Italy), CIGNO philosophy and the treatment of mourning

20:00 –Dinner
Location: Preciosa Restaurant

21:30 –Karaoke Party (optional)
Location: Preciosa Restaurant

Saturday, September 4

09:00 – 10:50 – Session 1: New Ritualisation of Death in 21th century
Location: Apor Palace
Chair: Thomas Quartier

• Eric Venbrux (The Netherlands), Mission Accomplished: Notions of Life in Dutch Funerary Culture
• Florina Codreanu (Romania) Death Lessons in the Imaginary Delivered by Computer Games Industry
• Monica Alina Danci (Romania), Love, Death and Everyday Life
• Ilona Kemppainen (Finland), Death and modernization
• Adela Toplean (Romania), Crossroads between Modern Death and Secular Sacred


09:00 – 10:50 – Session 2: End of Life and Palliative Cares. Bereavement
Location: Aula Magna room, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Chair: Anne Markussen

• Constantin Bogdan (Romania), To die today
• Maria Xenaki (Greece-UK), Grieving alone? Towards an understanding of the experience of bereaved single parents: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
• Ioana Todor, Lucian Marina (Romania), Perception on the Ethical Perspective of Euthanasia
• Birgitte Koch (Denmark), Palliative Cares in Denmark


10:50-11:05 – Coffee Break

11:05 – 13:30 – Session 1: New Ritualisation of Death in 21th century
Location: Aula Magna room, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Chair: Eric Venbrux

• Christine Schlott (Germany), Undertaker in Leipzig (Germany) – Ritual Specialists in Secular Time
• R. Becarelli, E. Locatelli, M. Sozzi (Italy), Contemporary features of death: a research over 52 mortuary chapels of health structures in Piedmont, Italy
• Thomas Quartier (The Netherlands), Personalized eschatology. Crossing the border of death in Dutch mourning rituals
• Cyrill Schaffer (New Zealand), Corpses, Conflict and Culture: An Analysis of Colonial Post-Mortem Practices
• Oana Elena Branda (Romania), War on terror: the new face of death
• Luigi Bartolomei (Italy), New architectures for funeral houses in the contemporary secularized italian society
• Antonella Grossi (Italy), Dans les « jardins du souvenir ». Expérience de la mémoire dans les cimetières de Paris. Premières notes de terrain

11:05 – 13:30 – Session2: Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation
Location: Apor Palace
Chair: Julie Rugg

• Anne Markussen (Denmark), Inverse Cremation and organ donation rates / Taking another Look at Bodily Disposal and Religion
• Brian Parsons (UK), European Influences on the Development of Cremation in Great Britain
• Revd Dr Peter C. Jupp (UK), Inverness crematorium: a challenge to the Highland way of death?
• Marius Rotar (Romania), The issues of cremation and the Romanian elites (19th-21st century)
• Hilary Grainger (UK), A Modernist Architectural Expression of Cremation: A Scottish Perspective
• Zdeněk R. Nešpor, (Czech Republic), Building of Crematoria in the Czech Republic: Social and Ideological Issue

13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch
Location: Platoul Romanilor Restaurant


16:00 – 19:00 – Trip at Bucerdea Vinoasa


20:00 – 23:00 – Romanian Traditional Meal
Location: Bucerdea Vinoasa


Sunday 5 September

8:20-9:00 – The annual meeting of Romanian Association for Death Studies *only for Romanian participants
09:00 – 11:15 – Session 1: Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation
Location: Apor Palace
Chair: Hilary Grainger

• Mirjam Klaassens (The Netherlands), Natural burial in the Netherlands
• Claudia Ionescu (Romania), Ekphrastic Representations of Death in Bellu Orthodox Cemetery in Bucharest
• Julie Rugg (UK), Cemeteries and modernity: new narrative frameworks
• Olivia Ministeri (Italy), Virtual cemeteries. A new way of grief processing?
• Marianna Nitu (Romania), The vertical metaphoric structure of the cemetery
• Andreea Pop (Romania), Forgotten Heritage of Memory and Commemoration - assemblies and funerary monuments in Romania

11:15-11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 – Session2: Religion and The Meaning of Death
Location: Apor Palace
Chair: Peter C. Jupp

• Sergiy V. Kurbatov (Ukraine), Death as a Factor of Creation the Cultural Reality: the Cases of Socrates and Hamlet
• Josef Schovanec (Czech Republic), The East in the West: death and new religions – the example of Bahai faith and Theosophy
• Bożena Józefów (Poland), Other World – Relics of the Pagan Belief in Polish Folk Culture
• Constantin Mihai (Romania), Sur la vie et sur la mort. Être en Christ dans la théologie de Saint Paul
• Corneliu Simuţ (Romania), Learning How to Die. Attitudes towards Death in Vito Mancuso’s Catholic Radicalism

Conclusions: 13:10-13:30

13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch
Location: Hotel Parc, offer by “Giovanni Morando Visconti” Italian Cultural Center of Alba Iulia

16:00 – 18:30 – Trip -Visitation of Ramet Monastery

19:30 – Dinner
Location: Hotel Parc, offer by “Giovanni Morando Visconti” Italian Cultural Center of Alba Iulia

Other information:
If you have some problems during your staying in Romania you could contact me on phone at 0040731030124 or my collegue Victor Tudor Rosu at 0040724072655.
We will pick up you from airport but if you have to wait for cars in the aiport for a while don't worry. The cars will pick up from airports not just one conference participant.
Remember: you have 15 minutes for your paper presentation followed by 5-7 minutes for questions and answers. You could use PowerPoint presentation.