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marți, 17 august 2010

The first draft of the final programme of Dying and Death III

Here is the first draft of the final programme of Dying and Death III International Conference.
Of course there are possible many changes upon it. In few days I will post here the detailed final programme of the conference by chairmen, times, days, hours, locations, meals, official reception and also the entertaiment programme *by the way, we intend to organize a karaoke party and also to invite a band who play for us some traditional romanian music.
As you can read bellow there are participants from 17 countries at our conference!
If you wish to change your paper location by sections please contact me urgently.

Cultural History of Death

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gevher Gökçe Acar (Turkey), Two different cultures, two different approches on death-place relationship – death cult and ceneteries in Vienna and Istanbul in the 18th and 19th centuries

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

Adriana Teodorescu (Romania), Death of the Star. Social and Cultural Issues

Victor Tudor Rosu (Romania), The representations of American stars’ death in communist Romania

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

Laura Jiga Iliescu (Romania) Few considerations about the power of the ironsmith, as expressed in the ATU 331 and ATU 753 narratives

Raluca Betea (Romania), Visual Representations of Death between Production and Reception.
A Case-Study on the Romanian Churches in Maramures (18th-19th Century)

Cristinel Roman-Negoi (Romania)

New Ritualisation of Death in 21th century

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

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

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

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

Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation

a). Burial, Cemeteries

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

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?

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

Marianna Nitu (Romania), The vertical metaphoric structure of the cemetery

b.) Cremation

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

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

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

End of Life and Palliative Cares. Bereavement

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

Eric Venbrux (The Netherlands), Mission Accomplished: Notions of Life in Dutch Funerary Culture

Constantin Bogdan (Romania), To die Today

Birgette Koch (Denmark), Palliative Cares in Denmark

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

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.

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

Bordea Medina, Cristina Maria Speranza (Romania), Bereavement in children and adolescents

Maria Xenaki (Greece), 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

Commemoration of dead in space and time

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

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

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

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

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

Religion and The Meaning of Death

Constantin Mihai (Romania), Sur la vie et sur la mort. Être en Christ dansla théologie de Saint Paul

Adela Toplean (Romania), Crossroads between Modern Death and Secular Sacred

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

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

Corneliu Simut (Romania), Learning How to Die. Attitudes towards Death in Vito Mancuso’s Catholic Radicalism