CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, 29th September 2011
8:00-14:00 Registration
Location: A9 Room, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
9:30 -10:20 Opening Ceremony:
Location: A9 Room, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Speakers:
Moise Ion Achim (Rector of “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia)
Ion Dumitrel (President of Alba Council, Romania)
Marina Sozzi (Ariodante Fabretti Foundation, Universita degli Studi, Turin, Italy)
Hilary Grainger (London College of Fashion, UK)
Ilona Kempainen (University of Helsinki, Finlanda)
Ken Worpole (London Metropolitan University, UK)
Luigi Bartolomei (University of Bologna, Italy)
Corina Rotar ( “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania)
Marius Rotar (“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania)
10:20-10:50 Art Exhibition – Alexandru Podea (Romania), Soul Fusion Metal Conference
Location: Apor Palace (Hall), “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
10:50 Coffee Break
Sessions: 11:00 -13:30
1. Humanistic Perspectives on Dying and Death
a. Folklore/Anthropology - chair: Helen Frisby (UK)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, A9 Room
11:00-11:30 Evy Johanne Håland (Norway/Greece), When the dead ensure the food: Death and the regeneration of life through festivals, food and social gathering during the ritual year in ancient and modern Greece
11:30-12:00 Stefan Dorondel, Stelu Serban (Romania), Between the Worlds: Witches, Healers, Dead, and Social Security in Southeast Europe
12:00-12:30 Leaha Mihai (Romania), The Tree of the Dead – a Bridge Between the Worlds. A video-anthropological exploration of a commemoration ritual from Transylvania.
12:30-13:00 Ilona Kemppainen (Finland), Finnish funeral customs in manners guides
13:00-13:30 Dorel Marc (Romania), La symbolique funéraire et l'identité culturelle dans la région multi-ethnique. Les comtés de Mures et Harghita
b. History - chair Marina Sozzi (Italy)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senate Bureau Room)
11:00-11:30 Agnieszka Kowalska, Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Poland), Ancient Egyptian Burial Patterns Being Repeated – Mannerism or Specific Meaning of Death
11:30-12:00 Václav Grubhoffer (Czech Republic), Medicalization of Death at the Turn of the 18th to 19th Centuries. The moment of Death, apparent Death and Attitudes towards dead Body from the Point of View of the History of Medicine
12:00-12:30 Roxana Vasile (Romania), Death between Maniera Greca and Maniera Italiana in Wallachia at the Beginning of the 18th Century.
12:30-13:00 Laura Pop (Romania), Categories of death in Romanian rural world of the late 19th - early 20th century after parish registers in several villages from Mures county (Romania)
13:00-13:30 Mihai Chiper (Romania), The most famous Romanian affair of honour: Filipescu- Lahovary (1897). The implications of a deadly duel.
13:30-15:00 Lunch
Location Pub 13 Alba Iulia (offered by the Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association and the Romanian Association for Death Studies)
Sessions: 15:00-19:30
1. Humanistic Perspectives on Dying and Death
c. Literature, Theater, Music, Art, Philosophy - chair Stefan Borbely (Romania)
Location 1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, A9 Room
15:00-15:30 Eliza Ramona Dumitrescu (Romania), Des morts non-naturelles chez le père du naturalisme. Les images de la mort chez Émile Zola
15:30-16:00 Gevher Gökçe Acar (Turkey), Hermann Nitsch’s Performances Or About Death And The Symbolic Transformation Of Death Concept
16:00-16:30 Alexa Stoicescu (Romania), Suicide in the communist discourse. Aktionsgruppe Banat and Herta Müllers Herztier
16:30-17:00 Iuga Marcela Cristina (Romania), The Eternal Time In Fairytales (The Dissemination Of The Land Of Youth Theme In Various Cultures)
2. Suicide, euthanasia and the law - chair Maggie Jackson (UK)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace (Birou Senate Room)
15:00-15:30 Ken Worpole (UK), Can There Ever Be Dignity in Dying? The Ethical Debate about Assisted Dying in the UK
15:30-16:00 Dejan Donev (Macedonia), The Right To Live And The Right To Die As A Two Fundamental Bioethical And Thantological Values
16:00-16:30 Özhan Hancılar (Turkey), Suicide and Euthanasia under Turkish Law
16:30-17:00 Anna E. Kubiak (Poland), The Discourse of Biopower against Disturbances of the boundary between Life and Death
17:00-17:15 Coffee break
1. Humanistic Perspectives on Dying and Death
a. History - chair Stefan Dorondel (Romania)
Location 1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, A9 Room
17:15-17:45 Helen Frisby (UK), Widows, grief and mourning in Victorian England
17:45-18:15 Claudia Ionescu (Romania), Victorian Memento Mori: From Post-morthem Photography to Mourning Jewelry
18:15-18:45 Erika Quinn (Germany), German Widows of the First World War: Between Rage and Repression
18:45-19:15 Audun Kjus (Norway), Death and the Boogeyman
19:15-19:45 Bogdan Ceobanu (Romania), Comemorating the heroes: twenty-five years from the Romanian Independance war
2. End of life and palliative care - chair Ken Worpole (UK);
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Birou Senat Room)
17:15-17:45 Cristina Speranza Maria, Medina Bordea (Romania), The Psychologist’s Role in Palliative Cares
17:45-18:15 Zaklina Trajkovska Ancevska, Daniela Tasevska (Macedonia), End of life and palliative care
18:15-18:45 Cornelia Miclea (Germany), Handicapped People Die, too
18:45-19:15 Olivia Ministeri (Italy), Self mutual help groups for people in grief in their recent online dimension
20:00-21:00 Dinner
Location: Preciosa Restaurant Alba Iulia
21:15-00:00
Karaoke Party (optional)
Location: Preciosa Restaurant Alba Iulia
Friday 30th September
Sessions: 9:00-11:00
3. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century ; Evy Johanne Håland (Norway/Greece)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Sala Senat Room)
9:00-9:30 Maggie Jackson (UK), Digital reconstruction and the “durable biography
9:30-10:00 Federica Manfredi (Italy), Mourir en tant que migrant. Tanatopolitiques et tanatopratiques dans le contexte de la migration dans l'Italie contemporaine
10:00-10.30Josef Schovanec (France), Is death merely optional? The growing trend of cryonics as a new funerary ritual
10:30-11:00 Anna Davidsson Bremborg (Sweden), Home memorials and home rituals
5 . Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation;
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senate Room)
a. Cemeteries chair Hilary Grainger (UK):
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room
9:00-9:30 Agita Misane (Latvia), The Dead at My Table: „Cemetery Festivals” in Latvia
9:30-10:00 Luca Prestia (Italy), An Historical Analysis of Seven Cemeteries in the Northern-Western Italy
10:00-10.30 Cosmina Berindei (Romania), Cemetery between "place of memory" and space for manifestation of a community crisis. Case study: Rosia Montana
10:30-11:00 Alina Felea (Republic of Moldova), L'histoire du cimetière arménien à Chisinau
Coffee break
11:00-11:15
Sessions: 11:15-13,30
4. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century; chair Udi Lebel (Israel)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Birou Senat Room)
11:15-11:45 Kornelia Sammet / Franz Erhard (Germany), The Observation of the Unobservable: Ideas of Afterlife in a Sociological Perspective
11:45-12:15 Adriana Teodorescu (Romania), The Structure and the Deconstruction of the Symbolic Immortality through Children. A Thanatological Perspective
12:15-12:45 Luigi Bartolomei (Italy), Common tendencies toward minimalist architecture and archetypical symbols in contemporary Funeral Houses.
12:45-13:15 Malgorzata Zawila (Poland), The „politics of death” and the „religion of Smoleńsk” – new or old phenomena occurring in the media discourse in Poland in one year after the flight crash in Smolensk 2010
13:15-13:45 Radoslaw Sierocki (Poland), Religion, Nation, Media. National Mourning in Poland After 1989
5. Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation;
b. Cremations and Crematoria chair Piero Passini (Italy)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senat Room)
11:15-11:45 Hilary Grainger (UK), ‘Old for New’: Sandwell Valley Crematorium, West Midlands, UK and its Architect, Martin Critchell
11:45-12:15 Marius Rotar (Romania), European Echoes into the Romanian Cremationist Movement
12:15-12:45 Orsolya Kereszty (Hungary), A social movement for cremation in Hungary in the Dual Monarchy
12:45-13:15 Lajos Hodi (Hungary), On Cremation in Hungary of nowadays
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room
13:45-15:00 Lunch
Restaurant of “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Sessions 15,00-18:00
4. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century chair Malgorzata Zawila (Poland)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senate Bureau Room)
15:00-15:30 Dragos Cargica (Romania), The Meanings of the Archangel Mihail Legion’s Martyrs in post1989 Romania
15:30-16:00 Aleksandra Drzał-Sierocka (Poland), Disease as the process of dying. Cultural images of AIDS at the turn of 20th and 21st century
16:00-16:30 Udi Lebel (Israel), Enforced Private Grief: National Hierarchy of Bereavement and the Glocalization of Loss
16:30 -17:00 Lorenz Graitl (Germany), Criminal Martyrs: The peril and power of self-sacrifice
17:00 -17:30 Ioana Moldovan (Romania), Staging Death
17:30-18:00 Anna G. Piotrowska (Poland), Commemorating death in European artistic music
2. Suicide, euthanasia and the law - chair Cristina Maria Speranza (Romania)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senate Bureau Room)
15:00-15:30 Arja Ryhänen (Finland), “I gave you wings, but I could not help the winds”
Child’s suicide experienced by parents in 1995-2009, Finland
15:30-16:00 Claudiu Stefani (Romania), Economic and social developments influence on suicide rates in Romania between 1990-2010. A retest of Emile Durkheim's theory
16:00-16:30 Daniela Tasevska, Lidija Pavleska, Zaklina Trajkovska Anceska (Macedonia), Suicide, prevention and moral valuation
16:30 -17:00 Sebastian Bartos (Romania), Queering Death: Dying and Mourning in the Gay Community
18:30 Departure to Bucerdea Vinoasa
19:00-22:00
Dinner (Traditional Romanian Meal)
Bucerdea Vinoasa – Tradition Group
Saturday Otober 1st
Sessions: 8,30-11,30
1. Humanistic Perspectives on Dying and Death
a. Folklore/Anthropology, chair Ilona Kemppainen (Finland)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Sala Senat Room)
8:30-9:00 Bożena Józefów –Czerwińska (Poland), Perceptions of Death and the Deceased in Polish Folk Culture
9:00-9:30 Rasa Raciunaite-Pauzuoliene (Lithuania), Lithuanian Funeral Rites from Tradition to Modernity
9:30-10:00 Constantin Bogdan (Romania), Strange Funeral Rituals: The Beauty Of Death And Funeral Feast
10:30-11:00 Olimbi Velaj (Albania), Meaning of death in Albanian Folk Ballads
11:00-11:30 Gabriel Roman (Romania), Death in a "traditional" Roma Community in the third Millennium : Kalderash of Zanea, county of Iasi
11:00-11:30 Asztalos Ioan (Romania), The Grim Reaper in Western and Eastern filmography between the 19th and 21st centuries.
b. History, chair Václav Grubhoffer (Czech Republic)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senat Room)
8:30-9:00 Éva Kósa (Hungary), Death and dying as war experience in the war-diary Doberdo. The Book of a Honvéd (Hungarian soldier) Officer from the Isonzo Front of István Szabó
9:00-9:30 Kathrin Linnemann (Germany), Death in Cracow
9:30-10:00 Piero Pasini (Italy), Relic of the Nation. Mourning the Martyrs in Venice during the Italian Resurgence (June 1867)
10:00-10:30 Olga Gradinaru (Romania), V.I. Lenin – History of a Political Relic
10:30-11:00 Noémi Tünde Farkas (Hungary), Thoughts on dying and suicide at the turn of the 18-19th Century
11:00-11:30 Manca Erzetič (Slovenia), Dying and Death At War - Concentration Zone: The Place Of (‘‘Special’’) Dying
11.30: Coffe break
Sessions: 12,00-14: 30
d. Religion and the Meaning of Death, chair Franz Erhard (Germany)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Birou Senat Room)
12:00-12:30 Ana Maria Roman-Negoi, Ioan Cristinel Roman-Negoi (Romania), The judgment before the Last Judgment. An analysis of the types of resurrected and punished persons during the Last Judgment, as depicted in the Romanian Orthodox Church paintings
12:30-13:00 Franziska Rehlinghaus ( Germany), The clericalisation of protestant funeral ceremonies in 19th century Germany: from silent burials to mourning acts
13:00-13:30 Corneliu Simut (Romania), Understanding Death beyond Religion in the Thought of John Shelby Spong
13:30-14:00 Emil Jurcan (Romania), Orthodox Confession and the Issues of Thanatology: A Comparison View
14:00-14:30 Gudor Botond (Romania), Death in the Protestant Theological Discourse in the 18th Transylvania: Peter Bod’s case
c. Literature, Theater, Music, Art, Philosophy, chair Josef Schovanec (France)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senat Room)
12:00-12:30 Golie Talaie (The Netherlands), Post-Mortem Photography now
12:30-13:00 Oana Stanculescu (Romania), Death and its different approaches in Romanticism
13:00-13:30 İlker ÖZÇELİK Selcuk SENTURK (Turkey), Characters' Longing for Death in Sameul Beckett's Waiting for Godot"
13:30-14:00 Stefan Borbely (Romania), Death and Work. Or: Death by Work? A Classical Case Study: Marx
14:00-14:30 Ramona Simut (Romania), Death as a Surprise in the Literature of 18th and 19th Century Romanticism
14:30-15:45 Lunch
Restaurant of “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
16:30-18:30
Visit of Alba Iulia Fortress
19:30-21:00
Dinner
Hotel Parc, Alba Iulia (offered by Centro Culturale Italiano “G.M. Visconti” (Alba Iulia)
Thursday, 29th September 2011
8:00-14:00 Registration
Location: A9 Room, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
9:30 -10:20 Opening Ceremony:
Location: A9 Room, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Speakers:
Moise Ion Achim (Rector of “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia)
Ion Dumitrel (President of Alba Council, Romania)
Marina Sozzi (Ariodante Fabretti Foundation, Universita degli Studi, Turin, Italy)
Hilary Grainger (London College of Fashion, UK)
Ilona Kempainen (University of Helsinki, Finlanda)
Ken Worpole (London Metropolitan University, UK)
Luigi Bartolomei (University of Bologna, Italy)
Corina Rotar ( “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania)
Marius Rotar (“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania)
10:20-10:50 Art Exhibition – Alexandru Podea (Romania), Soul Fusion Metal Conference
Location: Apor Palace (Hall), “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
10:50 Coffee Break
Sessions: 11:00 -13:30
1. Humanistic Perspectives on Dying and Death
a. Folklore/Anthropology - chair: Helen Frisby (UK)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, A9 Room
11:00-11:30 Evy Johanne Håland (Norway/Greece), When the dead ensure the food: Death and the regeneration of life through festivals, food and social gathering during the ritual year in ancient and modern Greece
11:30-12:00 Stefan Dorondel, Stelu Serban (Romania), Between the Worlds: Witches, Healers, Dead, and Social Security in Southeast Europe
12:00-12:30 Leaha Mihai (Romania), The Tree of the Dead – a Bridge Between the Worlds. A video-anthropological exploration of a commemoration ritual from Transylvania.
12:30-13:00 Ilona Kemppainen (Finland), Finnish funeral customs in manners guides
13:00-13:30 Dorel Marc (Romania), La symbolique funéraire et l'identité culturelle dans la région multi-ethnique. Les comtés de Mures et Harghita
b. History - chair Marina Sozzi (Italy)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senate Bureau Room)
11:00-11:30 Agnieszka Kowalska, Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Poland), Ancient Egyptian Burial Patterns Being Repeated – Mannerism or Specific Meaning of Death
11:30-12:00 Václav Grubhoffer (Czech Republic), Medicalization of Death at the Turn of the 18th to 19th Centuries. The moment of Death, apparent Death and Attitudes towards dead Body from the Point of View of the History of Medicine
12:00-12:30 Roxana Vasile (Romania), Death between Maniera Greca and Maniera Italiana in Wallachia at the Beginning of the 18th Century.
12:30-13:00 Laura Pop (Romania), Categories of death in Romanian rural world of the late 19th - early 20th century after parish registers in several villages from Mures county (Romania)
13:00-13:30 Mihai Chiper (Romania), The most famous Romanian affair of honour: Filipescu- Lahovary (1897). The implications of a deadly duel.
13:30-15:00 Lunch
Location Pub 13 Alba Iulia (offered by the Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association and the Romanian Association for Death Studies)
Sessions: 15:00-19:30
1. Humanistic Perspectives on Dying and Death
c. Literature, Theater, Music, Art, Philosophy - chair Stefan Borbely (Romania)
Location 1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, A9 Room
15:00-15:30 Eliza Ramona Dumitrescu (Romania), Des morts non-naturelles chez le père du naturalisme. Les images de la mort chez Émile Zola
15:30-16:00 Gevher Gökçe Acar (Turkey), Hermann Nitsch’s Performances Or About Death And The Symbolic Transformation Of Death Concept
16:00-16:30 Alexa Stoicescu (Romania), Suicide in the communist discourse. Aktionsgruppe Banat and Herta Müllers Herztier
16:30-17:00 Iuga Marcela Cristina (Romania), The Eternal Time In Fairytales (The Dissemination Of The Land Of Youth Theme In Various Cultures)
2. Suicide, euthanasia and the law - chair Maggie Jackson (UK)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace (Birou Senate Room)
15:00-15:30 Ken Worpole (UK), Can There Ever Be Dignity in Dying? The Ethical Debate about Assisted Dying in the UK
15:30-16:00 Dejan Donev (Macedonia), The Right To Live And The Right To Die As A Two Fundamental Bioethical And Thantological Values
16:00-16:30 Özhan Hancılar (Turkey), Suicide and Euthanasia under Turkish Law
16:30-17:00 Anna E. Kubiak (Poland), The Discourse of Biopower against Disturbances of the boundary between Life and Death
17:00-17:15 Coffee break
1. Humanistic Perspectives on Dying and Death
a. History - chair Stefan Dorondel (Romania)
Location 1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, A9 Room
17:15-17:45 Helen Frisby (UK), Widows, grief and mourning in Victorian England
17:45-18:15 Claudia Ionescu (Romania), Victorian Memento Mori: From Post-morthem Photography to Mourning Jewelry
18:15-18:45 Erika Quinn (Germany), German Widows of the First World War: Between Rage and Repression
18:45-19:15 Audun Kjus (Norway), Death and the Boogeyman
19:15-19:45 Bogdan Ceobanu (Romania), Comemorating the heroes: twenty-five years from the Romanian Independance war
2. End of life and palliative care - chair Ken Worpole (UK);
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Birou Senat Room)
17:15-17:45 Cristina Speranza Maria, Medina Bordea (Romania), The Psychologist’s Role in Palliative Cares
17:45-18:15 Zaklina Trajkovska Ancevska, Daniela Tasevska (Macedonia), End of life and palliative care
18:15-18:45 Cornelia Miclea (Germany), Handicapped People Die, too
18:45-19:15 Olivia Ministeri (Italy), Self mutual help groups for people in grief in their recent online dimension
20:00-21:00 Dinner
Location: Preciosa Restaurant Alba Iulia
21:15-00:00
Karaoke Party (optional)
Location: Preciosa Restaurant Alba Iulia
Friday 30th September
Sessions: 9:00-11:00
3. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century ; Evy Johanne Håland (Norway/Greece)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Sala Senat Room)
9:00-9:30 Maggie Jackson (UK), Digital reconstruction and the “durable biography
9:30-10:00 Federica Manfredi (Italy), Mourir en tant que migrant. Tanatopolitiques et tanatopratiques dans le contexte de la migration dans l'Italie contemporaine
10:00-10.30Josef Schovanec (France), Is death merely optional? The growing trend of cryonics as a new funerary ritual
10:30-11:00 Anna Davidsson Bremborg (Sweden), Home memorials and home rituals
5 . Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation;
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senate Room)
a. Cemeteries chair Hilary Grainger (UK):
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room
9:00-9:30 Agita Misane (Latvia), The Dead at My Table: „Cemetery Festivals” in Latvia
9:30-10:00 Luca Prestia (Italy), An Historical Analysis of Seven Cemeteries in the Northern-Western Italy
10:00-10.30 Cosmina Berindei (Romania), Cemetery between "place of memory" and space for manifestation of a community crisis. Case study: Rosia Montana
10:30-11:00 Alina Felea (Republic of Moldova), L'histoire du cimetière arménien à Chisinau
Coffee break
11:00-11:15
Sessions: 11:15-13,30
4. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century; chair Udi Lebel (Israel)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Birou Senat Room)
11:15-11:45 Kornelia Sammet / Franz Erhard (Germany), The Observation of the Unobservable: Ideas of Afterlife in a Sociological Perspective
11:45-12:15 Adriana Teodorescu (Romania), The Structure and the Deconstruction of the Symbolic Immortality through Children. A Thanatological Perspective
12:15-12:45 Luigi Bartolomei (Italy), Common tendencies toward minimalist architecture and archetypical symbols in contemporary Funeral Houses.
12:45-13:15 Malgorzata Zawila (Poland), The „politics of death” and the „religion of Smoleńsk” – new or old phenomena occurring in the media discourse in Poland in one year after the flight crash in Smolensk 2010
13:15-13:45 Radoslaw Sierocki (Poland), Religion, Nation, Media. National Mourning in Poland After 1989
5. Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation;
b. Cremations and Crematoria chair Piero Passini (Italy)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senat Room)
11:15-11:45 Hilary Grainger (UK), ‘Old for New’: Sandwell Valley Crematorium, West Midlands, UK and its Architect, Martin Critchell
11:45-12:15 Marius Rotar (Romania), European Echoes into the Romanian Cremationist Movement
12:15-12:45 Orsolya Kereszty (Hungary), A social movement for cremation in Hungary in the Dual Monarchy
12:45-13:15 Lajos Hodi (Hungary), On Cremation in Hungary of nowadays
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room
13:45-15:00 Lunch
Restaurant of “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Sessions 15,00-18:00
4. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century chair Malgorzata Zawila (Poland)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senate Bureau Room)
15:00-15:30 Dragos Cargica (Romania), The Meanings of the Archangel Mihail Legion’s Martyrs in post1989 Romania
15:30-16:00 Aleksandra Drzał-Sierocka (Poland), Disease as the process of dying. Cultural images of AIDS at the turn of 20th and 21st century
16:00-16:30 Udi Lebel (Israel), Enforced Private Grief: National Hierarchy of Bereavement and the Glocalization of Loss
16:30 -17:00 Lorenz Graitl (Germany), Criminal Martyrs: The peril and power of self-sacrifice
17:00 -17:30 Ioana Moldovan (Romania), Staging Death
17:30-18:00 Anna G. Piotrowska (Poland), Commemorating death in European artistic music
2. Suicide, euthanasia and the law - chair Cristina Maria Speranza (Romania)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senate Bureau Room)
15:00-15:30 Arja Ryhänen (Finland), “I gave you wings, but I could not help the winds”
Child’s suicide experienced by parents in 1995-2009, Finland
15:30-16:00 Claudiu Stefani (Romania), Economic and social developments influence on suicide rates in Romania between 1990-2010. A retest of Emile Durkheim's theory
16:00-16:30 Daniela Tasevska, Lidija Pavleska, Zaklina Trajkovska Anceska (Macedonia), Suicide, prevention and moral valuation
16:30 -17:00 Sebastian Bartos (Romania), Queering Death: Dying and Mourning in the Gay Community
18:30 Departure to Bucerdea Vinoasa
19:00-22:00
Dinner (Traditional Romanian Meal)
Bucerdea Vinoasa – Tradition Group
Saturday Otober 1st
Sessions: 8,30-11,30
1. Humanistic Perspectives on Dying and Death
a. Folklore/Anthropology, chair Ilona Kemppainen (Finland)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Sala Senat Room)
8:30-9:00 Bożena Józefów –Czerwińska (Poland), Perceptions of Death and the Deceased in Polish Folk Culture
9:00-9:30 Rasa Raciunaite-Pauzuoliene (Lithuania), Lithuanian Funeral Rites from Tradition to Modernity
9:30-10:00 Constantin Bogdan (Romania), Strange Funeral Rituals: The Beauty Of Death And Funeral Feast
10:30-11:00 Olimbi Velaj (Albania), Meaning of death in Albanian Folk Ballads
11:00-11:30 Gabriel Roman (Romania), Death in a "traditional" Roma Community in the third Millennium : Kalderash of Zanea, county of Iasi
11:00-11:30 Asztalos Ioan (Romania), The Grim Reaper in Western and Eastern filmography between the 19th and 21st centuries.
b. History, chair Václav Grubhoffer (Czech Republic)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senat Room)
8:30-9:00 Éva Kósa (Hungary), Death and dying as war experience in the war-diary Doberdo. The Book of a Honvéd (Hungarian soldier) Officer from the Isonzo Front of István Szabó
9:00-9:30 Kathrin Linnemann (Germany), Death in Cracow
9:30-10:00 Piero Pasini (Italy), Relic of the Nation. Mourning the Martyrs in Venice during the Italian Resurgence (June 1867)
10:00-10:30 Olga Gradinaru (Romania), V.I. Lenin – History of a Political Relic
10:30-11:00 Noémi Tünde Farkas (Hungary), Thoughts on dying and suicide at the turn of the 18-19th Century
11:00-11:30 Manca Erzetič (Slovenia), Dying and Death At War - Concentration Zone: The Place Of (‘‘Special’’) Dying
11.30: Coffe break
Sessions: 12,00-14: 30
d. Religion and the Meaning of Death, chair Franz Erhard (Germany)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Birou Senat Room)
12:00-12:30 Ana Maria Roman-Negoi, Ioan Cristinel Roman-Negoi (Romania), The judgment before the Last Judgment. An analysis of the types of resurrected and punished persons during the Last Judgment, as depicted in the Romanian Orthodox Church paintings
12:30-13:00 Franziska Rehlinghaus ( Germany), The clericalisation of protestant funeral ceremonies in 19th century Germany: from silent burials to mourning acts
13:00-13:30 Corneliu Simut (Romania), Understanding Death beyond Religion in the Thought of John Shelby Spong
13:30-14:00 Emil Jurcan (Romania), Orthodox Confession and the Issues of Thanatology: A Comparison View
14:00-14:30 Gudor Botond (Romania), Death in the Protestant Theological Discourse in the 18th Transylvania: Peter Bod’s case
c. Literature, Theater, Music, Art, Philosophy, chair Josef Schovanec (France)
Location: “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Apor Palace Room (Senat Room)
12:00-12:30 Golie Talaie (The Netherlands), Post-Mortem Photography now
12:30-13:00 Oana Stanculescu (Romania), Death and its different approaches in Romanticism
13:00-13:30 İlker ÖZÇELİK Selcuk SENTURK (Turkey), Characters' Longing for Death in Sameul Beckett's Waiting for Godot"
13:30-14:00 Stefan Borbely (Romania), Death and Work. Or: Death by Work? A Classical Case Study: Marx
14:00-14:30 Ramona Simut (Romania), Death as a Surprise in the Literature of 18th and 19th Century Romanticism
14:30-15:45 Lunch
Restaurant of “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
16:30-18:30
Visit of Alba Iulia Fortress
19:30-21:00
Dinner
Hotel Parc, Alba Iulia (offered by Centro Culturale Italiano “G.M. Visconti” (Alba Iulia)
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The final program of ABDD04 will be post here on Monday morning.