romanian.death.cremation

ABDD04 final program + instruction for authors + list of the participants + information regarding your transfer from airports

2011-09-26T12:05:00.004+03:00

1. 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, Romania)
Ion Dumitrel (President of Alba Council, Romania)

Gianfranco Fraccarollo (Centro Culturale Italiano “G.M. Visconti” Alba Iulia, Romania)
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)
Victor Tudor Rosu (National Museum of Unification, 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, presented by Diana Câmpan ( “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania)

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 Rasa Raciunaite-Pauzuoliene (Lithuania), Lithuanian Funeral Rites from Tradition to Modernity

12:00-12:30 Florin Gherasim, 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 Erika Quinn (Germany)

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 Senat 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 Rasa Raciunaite-Pauzuoliene (Lithuania)

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

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; chair 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

10:00-10.30 Josef 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

c. Literature, Theater, Music, Art, Philosophy (the next two presentations are combined), chair Hilary Grainger (UK)

10:00-10.30 Ioana Moldovan (Romania), Staging Death

10: 30-11:00 Anna G. Piotrowska (Poland), Commemorating death in European artistic music
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 15,00-17:00

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), Penetrating National pantheon: Hierarchy and Borders of Bereavement and the Right to Commemoration

16:30 -17:00 Lorenz Graitl (Germany), Criminal Martyrs: The peril and power of self-sacrifice

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 October 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

9:30-10:00 Constantin Bogdan (Romania), Strange Funeral Rituals: The Beauty Of Death And Funeral Feast

10:00-10:30 Olimbi Velaj (Albania), Meaning of death in Albanian Folk Ballads

10:030-11:00 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 Kornelia Sammet (Germany); Marina Sozzi (Italy)

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 Özçelik 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

16:30-18:00

Visit of Alba Iulia Fortress

18:30-19:30

Stradivarius Violin Concerto: Alexandru Tomescu (Romania)

Location Catedrala Romano Catolica Alba Iulia (Catholics Cathedral Alba Iulia) (there are limited places at this concert – 43 places, if you want to attend at please contact urgently registration desk in Thursday Morning)

20:00-21:30

Dinner
Hotel Parc, Alba Iulia (offered by Centro Culturale Italiano “G.M. Visconti” (Alba Iulia)

2. Instructions for authors:

Papers are accepted only in English or French
Paper not exceeding 12,000 words
Please supply a short biographical note (50 words maximum) and information about your affiliation, postal address, and an email address.
Abstracts of not more than 200 words are required for all papers submitted.
Each paper should have 5 to 7 keywords

Style guidelines:

a).Page Format: B5, 2.5 cm above, below 2 cm, left 2 cm, right 2 cm, header1.5 cm, footnote 1 cm portrait (except annexes necessary to use type) edges in the mirror, align the left-right, a row spacing, indentation of first lines1.25 cm, without using the Tab key.
b. Recommended fonts: Times New Roman or Garamond (12 p. fortext p. 10 for footnotes and annexes 11 p. for summary).
c. The title should be written in capitals and centered, followed by the nameauthor's (right-aligned).
d. Running title written in italics and centred 11 p., will contain the nameauthor's (on p. para) and the study title (possibly shortened, the odd page).Page number will be put underground and centred.
e. Summary (abstract) will be placed at the end of the text and will be accompanied by a number of approx.
f. Annexes will be written in Word program under Windows, does not recognize text sent as image.
3. Illustration
Images must be of high quality jpg format., Bmp., Gif., Tiff. (Not allowed Xerox copies) and accompanied by explanations and sources of origin mentioning (Where applicable).

4. Drafting rules
a. Titles of books, studies, newspaper or magazine, mentioned in the text is written with italics.
b. To draw up quotations are used bold, not italics,marking the opening of their being made in accordance with the rules of punctuation in English
When the author wants to emphasize a few wordsthe quotation, use italic characters, followed by mention of [national] or [nn].
For citations in classical languages will use italics, without quotation marks.
c. footnotes are permitted only (orders placed by using Insert Reference, footnote), generally prepared in accordance with Academy Romanian, noting that it will use abbreviations for further Citation sources / books / articles, and not 'op. cit..

Examples of full citation:

National Archives Directorate Alba County, Alba Prefecture fund, no.84/1938, f. 22r (v).
Paul Johnson, A History of the Modern World 1920-2000, Bucharest, Humanitas, 2003, p. 84.
Nikolaus Boroffka, 'Observations on the discoveries of prehistoric amber Romania', in Apulum, XXXIX (2002), p. 147.
R.J.W. Evans, "Joseph II Habsburg and Nationality in the Land", in HM Scott ed.,Enlightened absolutism. Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe, London,Macmillan, 1990, p. 209-219.

Examples of abbreviations:

DJAAN, prefecture, no. 76/1880, f. 2r (v).
Johnson, A History, p. 56.
Boroffka, Observations, p. 150.
Evans, Joseph II, p. 210.

The conference proceedings will be published as supplement of the journal Annales Universitatis Apulensis, Series Historica (http://istorie.uab.ro/publicatii/colectia_auash/auash_prezentare.html ). This journal is indexed in CEEOL (Central and Estern European Online Library) scientific international database (http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/publicationlist.aspx ).

Deadline: 13th of October – deadline for sending us your full paper for conference proceedings (mrotar2000@yahoo.com adriana.teodorescu@gmail.com )

Remember: not all the presentations will be published in the conference proceedings. If your paper will not follow the instructions for authors will not be published in the conference proceedings. Also, the editors of the proceedings have the right to reject some papers from the publication in the conference proceedings if those papers wouldn’t have a fit scientific content.

Useful Phones and Address:

“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

Alba Iulia, Gabriel Bethlen street, nr.5

+40-0258-806130

Hotel Cetate

Alba Iulia, Unirii street, nr.3

+4.0258.815.833
+4.0258.831.501

Marius Rotar

+4.0731030124

3. LIST OF ABDD04 PARTICIPANTS:

Evy Johanne Håland (Norway/Greece)
Rasa Raciunaite-Pauzuoliene (Lithuania)
Leaha Mihai (Romania)
Florin Gherasim (Romania)
Ilona Kemppainen (Finland)
Dorel Marc (Romania)
Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Poland)
Václav Grubhoffer (Czech Republic)
Roxana Vasile (Romania)
Laura Pop (Romania)
Mihai Chiper (Romania)
Eliza Ramona Dumitrescu (Romania)
Gevher Gökçe Acar (Turkey)
Alexa Stoicescu (Romania)
Iuga Marcela Cristina (Romania)
Ken Worpole (UK)
Dejan Donev (Macedonia)
Özhan Hancılar (Turkey)
Anna E. Kubiak (Poland)
Helen Frisby (UK)
Claudia Ionescu (Romania)
Erika Quinn (Germany)
Audun Kjus (Norway)
Cristina Speranza Maria (Romania)
Medina Bordea (Romania)
Daniela Tasevska (Macedonia)
Cornelia Miclea (Germany)
Olivia Ministeri (Italy)
Maggie Jackson (UK)
Federica Manfredi (Italy)
Josef Schovanec (France)
Anna Davidsson Bremborg (Sweden)
Agita Misane (Latvia)
Luca Prestia (Italy)
Ioana Moldovan (Romania)
Anna G. Piotrowska (Poland)
Kornelia Sammet (Germany)
Franz Erhard (Germany)
Adriana Teodorescu (Romania)
Luigi Bartolomei (Italy)
Malgorzata Zawila (Poland)
Radoslaw Sierocki (Poland)
Hilary Grainger (UK)
Marius Rotar (Romania)
Orsolya Kereszty (Hungary)
Lajos Hodi (Hungary)
Dragos Cargica (Romania)
Aleksandra Drzał-Sierocka (Poland)
Udi Lebel (Israel)
Marina Sozzi (Italy)
Lorenz Graitl (Germany)
Arja Ryhänen (Finland)
Claudiu Stefani (Romania)
Mihaela Vlad (Romania)
Daniela Tasevska (Macedonia)
Bożena Józefów –Czerwińska (Poland)
Constantin Bogdan (Romania)
Olimbi Velaj (Albania)
Gabriel Roman (Romania)
Asztalos Ioan (Romania)
Éva Kósa (Hungary)
Kathrin Linnemann (Germany)
Piero Pasini (Italy)
Olga Gradinaru (Romania)
Noémi Tünde Farkas (Hungary)
Manca Erzetič (Slovenia)
Ana Maria Roman-Negoi (Romania)
Ioan Cristinel Roman-Negoi (Romania)
Franziska Rehlinghaus ( Germany)
Corneliu Simut (Romania)
Emil Jurcan (Romania)
Gudor Botond (Romania)
Golie Talaie (The Netherlands)
Oana Stanculescu (Romania)
İlker Özçelik (Turkey)
Selcuk Senturk (Turkey)
Stefan Borbely (Romania)
Ramona Simut (Romania)
Cosmin Bodrean (Romania)
Mihaela Bodrean (Romania)
Corina Rotar (Romania)
Timo Uusitalo (Finland)
Constantin Musescu (Romania)
Lucian Teodorescu (Romania)
Alexandru Podea (Romania)

4. THE TRANSFER FROM AIRPORTS TO ALBA IULIA

Regarding your transfer from Cluj Napoca airport and Sibiu airport to Alba Iulia we provide two buses for this. These buses will be arrived to these airports on Wednesday 28^th of September at 5 p.m. Also, for your departures from Alba Iulia to Cluj Napoca and Sibiu airport the same buses will be gone on October 2 at 8 a.m. from Hotel Cetate in Alba Iulia.

If you wish to not wait for these buses there are many possibilities to come from Cluj Napoca or Sibiu to Alba Iulia:

By train:

Sibiu – Alba Iulia (direct)

Train nr. 2413 departure 12,43 – arrival 15,11

Train nr. 2443 departures 15,51 – arrival 18,42

Alba Iulia – Sibiu

Train nr. 2441 departure 6, 24 – arrival 9,17

Train nr. 2414 departures 11,38 – arrival 14,05

Cluj Napoca – Alba Iulia

Train nr. 3612 departure 12,05 – arrival 14,56

Train nr. 1832 departure 14,05 – arrival 17.07

Train nr. 1828 departure 17,35 – arrival 19,51

Train nr. 1818 departure 17,53 – arrival 20.08

Train nr. 1924 departure 22,47 – arrival 1,00

Alba Iulia – Cluj

Train nr. departure 2,40 – arrival 4,50

Train nr. departure 2,49 - arrival 5,03

Train nr. departure 5,21 – arrival 7,31

Train nr. departure 6,43 – arrival 8,58

Train nr. departure 10,56 – arrival 13,10

For more information please visit: http://www.mersultrenurilor.ro

By bus

Here are the possible connections Cluj Napoca –Alba Iulia: http://www.autogari.ro/Transport/Cluj_Napoca-Alba_Iulia/15794-1.aspx?zi=2011-09-28

and Alba Iulia – Cluj: http://www.autogari.ro/Transport/Alba_Iulia-Cluj_Napoca/1-15794.aspx?zi=2011-10-02

Remember: for the transfer from Cluj Napoca airport and Sibiu airport to Cluj Napoca Central Station and Sibiu Central Station you must take the taxi!

Program ABDD04 - Draft

2011-09-23T01:06:00.006+03:00

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)

If you wish to change your day and time presentation please urgently email me at mrotar2000@yahoo.com

The final program of ABDD04 will be post here on Monday morning.

ABDD04

2011-09-22T07:17:00.001+03:00

ABDD04 information

2011-09-21T16:30:00.004+03:00

1. All the participants at ABDD04 will have their acoomodation ( single and double rooms + breakfest) at Hotel Cetate in Alba Iulia: http://www.hotel.cetate.tourneo.ro/F_New . It's the same hotel as the previous edition of the conference. The location of the hotel is CETATE HOTEL, Alba Iulia, Romania - 3 Unirii Street, phone: +4.0258.815.833 +4.0258.831.501
2. We will organize the trip conference at Bucerdea Vinoasa at a wine cellar, taking a romanian traditional meal. Here it is the link to this wine cellar: http://www.traditiongroup.ro/engleza/despre-noi.html
3. I hope on Friday the final programme of ABDD04 by time, chairmen, the conference rooms, the location of meals and dinners to be post here! Also, very soon I will post here information for your aiport transfer to Alba Iulia.

Draft of the confirmed papers at ABDD04 + INFORMATION

2011-09-15T13:19:00.005+03:00

1.DRAFT OF THE CONFIRMED PAPERS AT ABDD04

Opening Ceremony:

Speakers:

Moise Ion Achim (President 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)

Adriana Teodorescu (“Babes Boylai” University of Cluj Napoca, the Romanian Association for Death Studies, Romania)

Cosmin Bodrean (Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association, Romania)

Marius Rotar (“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania)

Art Exhibition – Alexandru Podea (Romania), Soul Fusion Metal Conference

Sessions:

1. Humanistic Perspectives on Dying and Death (at this session some presentations could be combined)

a. Folklore/Anthropology

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

Stefan Dorondel, Stelu Serban (Romania), Between the Worlds: Witches, Healers, Dead, and Social Security in Southeast Europe

Bożena Józefów –Czerwińska (Poland), Perceptions of Death and the Deceased in Polish Folk Culture

Ilona Kemppainen (Finland), Finnish funeral customs in manners guides

Audun Kjus (Norway), Death and the Boogeyman

Dorel Marc (Romania), La symbolique funéraire et l'identité culturelle dans la région multi-ethnique. Les comtés de Mures et Harghita

Leaha Mihai (Romania), The Tree of the Dead – a Bridge Between the Worlds. A video-anthropological exploration of a commemoration ritual from Transylvania.

Constantin Bogdan (Romania), Strange Funeral Rituals: The Beauty Of Death And Funeral Feast

Olimbi Velaj (Albania), Meaning of death in Albanian Folk Ballads

Adriana Cupcea (Romania), Contemporary funeral ritual at the Turks in Dobrudja, Romania

Gabriel Roman (Romania), Death in a "traditional" Roma Community in the third Millennium : Kalderash of Zanea, county of Iasi

b. History

Agnieszka Kowalska, Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Poland), Ancient Egyptian Burial Patterns Being Repeated – Mannerism or Specific Meaning of Death

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

Roxana Vasile (Romania), Death between Maniera Greca and Maniera Italiana in Wallachia at the Beginning of the 18th Century.

Helen Frisby (UK), Widows, grief and mourning in Victorian England

Claudia Ionescu (Romania), Victorian Memento Mori: From Post-morthem Photography to Mourning Jewelry

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

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)

Monica Muresan (Romania), The Modern State and the Issues of Mortality. Romanian Legislation Regarding Burials and Cemeteries in the 19th and Early 20th Century

Kathrin Linnemann (Germany), Death in Cracow

Piero Pasini (Italy), Relic of the Nation. Mourning the Martyrs in Venice during the Italian Resurgence (June 1867)

Bogdan Ceobanu (Romania), Comemorating the heroes: twenty-five years from the Romanian Independance war

Mihai Chiper (Romania), The most famous Romanian affair of honour: Filipescu- Lahovary (1897). The implications of a deadly duel.

Noémi Tünde Farkas (Hungary), Thoughts on dying and suicide at the turn of the 18-19th Century

Manca Erzetič (Slovenia), Dying and Death At War - Concentration Zone: The Place Of (‘‘Special’’) Dying

Erika Quinn (Germany), German Images of War Widows: Trying to navigate the choppy seas

Gheorghe Negustor (Romania), Mourning and Grief for the Dead of the Great War within the Romanian Society during the interwar period: The Denied Heroism?

Olga Gradinaru (Romania), V.I. Lenin – History of a Political Relic

C. Literature, Theater, Music, Art, Philosophy

Anna G. Piotrowska (Poland), Commemorating death in European artistic music

Oana Stanculescu (Romania), Death and its different approaches in Romanticism

İlker ÖZÇELİK Selcuk SENTURK (Turkey), Characters' Longing for Death in Sameul Beckett's Waiting for Godot"

Alexa Stoicescu (Romania), Suicide in the communist discourse. Aktionsgruppe Banat and Herta Müllers Herztier

Ramona Simut (Romania), Death as a Surprise in the Literature of 18th and 19th Century Romanticism

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

Gevher Gökçe Acar (Turkey), Hermann Nitsch’s Performances Or About Death And The Symbolic Transformation Of Death Concept

Iuga Marcela Cristina (Romania), The Eternal Time In Fairytales (The Dissemination Of The Land Of Youth Theme In Various Cultures)

Golie Talaie (The Netherlands), Post-Mortem Photography now

Eliza Ramona Dumitrescu (Romania), Des morts non-naturelles chez le père du naturalisme. Les images de la mort chez Émile Zola

Ioana Moldovan (Romania), Staging Death

Asztalos Ioan (Romania), The Grim Reaper in Western and Eastern filmography between the 19th and 21st centuries.

D. Religion and the Meaning of Death

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

Franziska Rehlinghaus ( Germany), The clericalisation of protestant funeral ceremonies in 19th century Germany: from silent burials to mourning acts

Corneliu Simut (Romania), Understanding Death beyond Religion in the Thought of John Shelby Spong

Emil Jurcan (Romania), Orthodox Confession and the Issues of Thanatology: A Comparison View

Gudor Botond (Romania), Death in the Protestant Theological Discourse in the 18th Transylvania: Peter Bod’s case

2. Suicide, euthanasia and the law;

Ken Worpole (UK), Can There Ever Be Dignity in Dying? The Ethical Debate about Assisted Dying in the UK

Dejan Donev (Macedonia), The Right To Live And The Right To Die As A Two Fundamental Bioethical And Thantological Values

Özhan Hancılar (Turkey), Suicide and Euthanasia under Turkish Law

Anna E. Kubiak (Poland), The Discourse of Biopower against Disturbances of the boundary between Life and Death

Arja Ryhänen (Finland), “I gave you wings, but I could not help the winds”
Child’s suicide experienced by parents in 1995-2009, Finland

Claudiu Stefani (Romania), Economic and social developments influence on suicide rates in Romania between 1990-2010. A retest of Emile Durkheim's theory

Daniela Tasevska, Lidija Pavleska, Zaklina Trajkovska Anceska (Macedonia), Suicide, prevention and moral valuation

3. End of life and palliative care;

Cristina Speranza Maria, Medina Bordea (Romania), The Psychologist’s Role in Palliative Cares

Zaklina Trajkovska Ancevska, Daniela Tasevska (Macedonia), End of life and palliative care

Cornelia Miclea (Germany), Handicapped People Die, too

Olivia Ministeri (Italy), Self mutual help groups for people in grief in their recent online dimension

4. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century;

Maggie Jackson (UK), Digital reconstruction and the “durable biography

Federica Manfredi (Italy), Mourir en tant que migrant. Tanatopolitiques et tanatopratiques dans le contexte de la migration dans l'Italie contemporaine

Josef Schovanec (France), Is death merely optional? The growing trend of cryonics as a new funerary ritual

Anna Davidsson Bremborg (Sweden), Home memorials and home rituals

Kornelia Sammet / Franz Erhard (Germany), The Observation of the Unobservable: Ideas of Afterlife in a Sociological Perspective

Adriana Teodorescu (Romania), The Structure and the Deconstruction of the Symbolic Immortality through Children. A Thanatological Perspective

Luigi Bartolomei (Italy), Common tendencies toward minimalist architecture and archetypical symbols in contemporary Funeral Houses.

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

Radoslaw Sierocki (Poland), Religion, Nation, Media. National Mourning in Poland After 1989

Dragos Cargica (Romania), The Meanings of the Archangel Mihail Legion’s Martyrs in post1989 Romania

Aleksandra Drzał-Sierocka (Poland), Disease as the process of dying. Cultural images of AIDS at the turn of 20th and 21st century

Udi Lebel (Israel), Enforced Private Grief: National Hierarchy of Bereavement and the Glocalization of Loss

Lorenz Graitl (Germany), Criminal Martyrs: The peril and power of self-sacrifice

5. Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation;

a. Cemeteries:

Agita Misane (Latvia), The Dead at My Table: „Cemetery Festivals” in Latvia

Luca Prestia (Italy), An Historical Analysis of Seven Cemeteries in the Northern-Western Italy

Cosmina Berindei (Romania), Cemetery between "place of memory" and space for manifestation of a community crisis. Case study: Rosia Montana

Alina Felea (Republic of Moldova), L'histoire du cimetière arménien à Chisinau

b. Cremations and Crematoria

Hilary Grainger (UK), ‘Old for New’: Sandwell Valley Crematorium, West Midlands, UK and its Architect, Martin Critchell

Marius Rotar (Romania), European Echoes into the Romanian Cremationist Movement

Orsolya Kereszty (Hungary), A social movement for cremation in Hungary in the Dual Monarchy
Lajos Hodi (Hungary), On Cremation in Hungary of nowadays

2. INFORMATION

The accomodation of the participants will be at Hotel Cetate in Alba Iulia (the conference hotel of last edition of ABDD) or Hotel Transilvania in Alba Iulia. Both hotels have 2 stars +. Next week I will post here the exact location of participants' accomodation. We provide for any participant at ABDD04 four nights accomodation in single and double room (+breakfast) and also all the meals.
We try to organize the conference trip at Bucerdea Vinoasa (a village near Alba Iulia) to a wine cellar for tasting wines and also for a Romanian traditional meal. We wait for the confirmation of the owners' wine cellar.
Regarding your transfer from Cluj Napoca airport and Sibiu airport to Alba Iulia we try to make it with two buses. I will post here next week information about it (the time arrival at the aiports of these buses). If just in case we will not be able to collect all the participants by airport I will put here the scheldule of train and buses from these two towns to Alba Iulia.
The final programme of ABDD04 by time, chairmen will be post here next week.
If you want to change your paper section please email me to mrotar2000@yahoo.com

The third crematorium in Romania!

2011-08-24T13:28:00.003+03:00

At Oradea, a big town near the hungarian border, has started the building of the third crematorium in Romania. This third crematorium is built by a romanian bussinessman and will be open this year. For more details about this topic please visit the website of Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association (only in romanian language): http://www.incinerareamurg.ro/noutati

Extended deadlines for ABDD04

2011-08-10T11:49:00.003+03:00

We decided to extend the deadline for the confirmation of your presence and the payment (30 EUR) at Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, fourth edition (ABDD04), until 26th of August 2011. Until now about 50 participants have confirmed their presence at our conference.

The conference fee can be paid here:

Name of the account holder: Asociatia Cremationista Amurg

Adress: Latureni, 12, Hunedoara

International Bank Account Number (IBAN) RO 07 BTRL 0630 4205 K646 06XX

Name of the bank: BANCA TRANSILVANIA
HUNEDOARA

Bank Identification COD SWIFT (BIC) : BTRL RO21 HD1

When paying report specific information: (obligatory!): Dying and Death Conference

Remember: as the participant of our conference you will benefit by 4 nights accomodation (hotel rating 2 stars + *bed, bathroom, TV, internet connection), all the meals, an official reception + karaoke party (optional), the trip conference and the conference proceedings. Extranights are free.

Finally... my book on cremation in Romania

2011-07-30T13:45:00.003+03:00

After 5 years of hardly work my book on cremation and crematoria in 19th-21st century Romania will be published very, very soon. Here is the main cover of the book! I'm really proud and happy about it! The book has 630 pages with 80 pictures.

Cambridge BOOK - forthcoming...

2011-07-25T15:28:00.000+03:00

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Dying-and-Death-in-18th-21st-Century-Europe1-4438-3208-1.htm

Instructions for authors + ANCS

2011-07-14T17:53:00.005+03:00

1. Instructions for authors:

Papers are accepted only in English or French
Paper not exceeding 12,000 words
Please supply a short biographical note (50 words maximum) and information about your affiliation, postal address, and an email address.
Abstracts of not more than 200 words are required for all papers submitted.
Each paper should have 5 to 7 keywords

Style guidelines:

a).Page Format: B5, 2.5 cm above, below 2 cm, left 2 cm, right 2 cm, header1.5 cm, footnote 1 cm portrait (except annexes necessary to use type) edges in the mirror, align the left-right, a row spacing, indentation of first lines1.25 cm, without using the Tab key.
b. Recommended fonts: Times New Roman or Garamond (12 p. fortext p. 10 for footnotes and annexes 11 p. for summary).
c. The title should be written in capitals and centred, followed by the nameauthor's (right-aligned).
d. Running titile written in italics and centred 11 p., will contain the nameauthor's (on p. para) and the study title (possibly shortened, the odd page).Page number will be put underground and centred.
e. Summary (abstract) will be placed at the end of the text and will be accompanied by a number of approx.
f. Annexes will be written in Word program under Windows, does not recognize text sent as image.
3. Illustration
Images must be of high quality jpg format., Bmp., Gif., Tiff. (Not allowed Xerox copies) and accompanied by explanations and sources of origin mentioning (Where applicable).

4. Drafting rules
a. Titles of books, studies, newspaper or magazine, mentioned in the text is written with italics.
b. To draw up quotations are used bold, not italics,marking the opening of their being made in accordance with the rules of punctuation in English
When the author wants to emphasize a few wordsthe quotation, use italic characters, followed by mention of [national] or [nn].
For citations in classical languages will use italics, without quotation marks.
c. footnotes are permitted only (orders placed by using Insert Reference, footnote), generally prepared in accordance with Academy Romanian, noting that it will use abbreviations for further Citation sources / books / articles, and not 'op. cit..

Examples of full citation:

National Archives Directorate Alba County, Alba Prefecture fund, no.84/1938, f. 22r (v).
Paul Johnson, A History of the Modern World 1920-2000, Bucharest, Humanitas, 2003, p. 84.
Nikolaus Boroffka, 'Observations on the discoveries of prehistoric amberRomania', in Apulum, XXXIX (2002), p. 147.
R.J.W. Evans, "Joseph II Habsburg and Nationality in the Land", in HM Scott ed.,Enlightened absolutism. Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe, London,Macmillan, 1990, p. 209-219.

Examples of abbreviations:

DJAAN, prefecture, no. 76/1880, f. 2r (v).
Johnson, A History, p. 56.
Boroffka, Observations, p. 150.
Evans, Joseph II, p. 210.

The conference proceedings will be published as supplement of the journal Annales Universitatis Apulensis, Series Historica (http://istorie.uab.ro/publicatii/colectia_auash/auash_prezentare.html ). This journal is indexed in CEEOL (Central and Estern European Online Library) scientific international database (http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/publicationlist.aspx ).

Deadline: 13th of October – deadline for sending us your full paper for conference proceedings (mrotar2000@yahoo.com adriana.teodorescu@gmail.com )

Remember: not all the presentations will be published in the conference proceedings. If your paper will not follow the instructions for authors will not be published in the conference proceedings. Also, the editors of the proceedings have the right to reject some papers from the publication in the conference proceedings if those papers wouldn’t have a fit scientific content.

Please keep in your mind the other deadlines of the conference:

10th of August – deadline for the confirmation of your presence at the conference (mrotar2000@yahoo.com)

20th of August – deadline for your payment (mrotar2000@yahoo.com)

2. As for the last two editions of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (ABDD02 - 2009; ABDD03 - 2010), Romanian Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS) will grant some funds for 2011 edition of the conference: http://www.mct.ro/uploads/manifestari-stiintifice/site-listing-10-iunie.pdf I think this is a new sign of appreciation of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference here in Romania.

List of the accepted papers at ABDD04 + information

2011-06-24T13:37:00.005+03:00

1. Özhan Hancılar (Turkey), Suicide and Euthanasia under Turkish Law

2. Diana Adela Martin (Germany), An Impossible Heap – the quest for death in Samuel Beckett’s play „Endgame”

3. Dorel Marc (Romania), La symbolique funéraire et l'identité culturelle dans la région multi-ethnique. Les comtés de Mures et Harghita.

4. Stefan Dorondel, Stelu Serban (Romania), Between the Worlds: Witches, Healers, Dead, and Social Security in Southeast Europe

5. Ken Worpole (UK), Can There Ever Be Dignity in Dying? The Ethical Debate about Assisted Dying in the UK

6. Nikola Tupanceski, Dragana Kiprijanovska (Macedonia), Euthanasia And Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Theoretical And Comparative View

7. Anna Davidsson Bremborg (Sweden), Home memorials and home rituals

8. 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)

9. Christine Schlott (Germany), Changing attitudes towards cemeteries in Leipzig, Germany

10. Dorin Rus (Austria), The Forest as a Place of Death: Legends and Accounts of Criminals, Stereotypes of the Forest as a Place of Horrors

11. 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

12. Anna G. Piotrowska (Poland), Commemorating death in European artistic music

13. Gabriel Roman (Romania), Death in a "traditional" Roma Community in the third Millennium : Kalderash of Zanea, county of Iasi

14. Udi Lebel (Israel), Enforced Private Grief: National Hierarchy of Bereavement and the Glocalization of Loss

15. Eliza Ramona Dumitrescu (Romania), Des morts non-naturelles chez le père du naturalisme. Les images de la mort chez Émile Zola

16. Joaquin Lopez (France), Thanatopraxy as the way to the changing death

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

18. Anna E. Kubiak (Poland), The Discourse of Biopower against Disturbances of the boundary between Life and Death

19. Piero Pasini (Italy), Relic of the Nation. Mourning the Martyrs in Venice during the Italian Resurgence (June 1867)

20. Gevher Gökçe Acar (Turkey), Hermann Nitsch’s Performances Or About Death And The Symbolic Transformation Of Death Concept

21. Josef Schovanec (France), Is death merely optional? The growing trend of cryonics as a new funerary ritual

22. Agita Misane (Latvia), The Dead at My Table: „Cemetery Festivals” in Latvia

23. Shaban Darakchi (Bulgaria), Gender Aspects of Death

25. Luigi Bartolomei (Italy), Common tendencies toward minimalist architecture and archetypical symbols in contemporary Funeral Houses.

26. Franziska Rehlinghas ( Germany), The clericalisation of protestant funeral ceremonies in 19th century Germany: from silent burials to mourning acts

27. Richard Albrecht (Germany), Armenocide, Comparative Genocidal Research and/as Prevention of Genocide.

28. Belinda Chapman (UK), The Personalized Funeral’s Use of Digital Technology

29. Lorenz Graitl (Germany), Criminal Martyrs: The peril and power of self-sacrifice

30. Maggie Jackson (UK), Digital reconstruction and the “durable biography

31. 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

32 Ioana Moldovan (Romania), Staging Death

33. Federica Manfredi (Italy), Mourir en tant que migrant. Tanatopolitiques et tanatopratiques dans le contexte de la migration dans l'Italie contemporaine

34. Samantha McCormick (UK), Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Diamonds

35. Roxana Vasile (Romania), Death between Maniera Greca and Maniera Italiana in Wallachia at the Beginning of the 18th Century.

36. Oana Stanculescu (Romania), Death and its different approaches in Romanticism

37. Bożena Józefów –Czerwińska (Poland), Perceptions of Death and the Deceased in Polish Folk Culture

39. Kornelia Sammet / Franz Erhard (Germany), The Observation of the Unobservable: Ideas of Afterlife in a Sociological Perspective

40, Agnieszka Kowalska, Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Poland), Ancient Egyptian Burial Patterns Being Repeated – Mannerism or Specific Meaning of Death

41. Arja Ryhänen (Finland), “I gave you wings, but I could not help the winds”
Child’s suicide experienced by parents in 1995-2009, Finland

42. Olimbi Velaj (Albania), Meaning of death in Albanian Folk Ballads

43. Asztalos Ioan (Romania), The Grim Reaper in Western and Eastern filmography between the XXth and XXIst centuries.

44. Olimbi Velaj (Albania), Albania, changes in death rituals between communist and post communist era

45 . Audun Kjus (Norway), Death and the Boogeyman

46. Dejan Donev (Macedonia), The Right To Live And The Right To Die As A Two Fundamental Bioethical And Thantological Values

47. Kathrin Linnemann (Germany), Death in Cracow

48. Alexa Stoicescu (Romania), Suicide in the communist discourse. Aktionsgruppe Banat and Herta Müllers Herztier

49. Erika Quinn (Germany), German Images of War Widows: Trying to navigate the choppy seas

50. Orsolya Kereszty (Hungary), A social movement for cremation in Hungary in the Dual Monarchy

51. Aleksandra Drzał-Sierocka (Poland), Disease as the process of dying. Cultural images of AIDS at the turn of XX and XXI century

52. Radoslaw Sierocki (Poland), Religion, Nation, Media. National Mourning in Poland After 1989

53. Alina Felea (Republic of Moldava), L'histoire du cimetière arménien à Chisinau

54. Daniela Tasevska, Lidija Pavleska, Zaklina Trajkovska Anceska (Macedonia), Suicide, prevention and moral valuation

55. Zaklina Trajkovska Ancevska., Daniela Tasevska (Macedonia), End of life and palliative care

56. Leaha Mihai (Romania), The Tree of the Dead – a Bridge Between the Worlds. A video-anthropological exploration of a commemoration ritual from Transylvania.

57. Manca Erzetič (Slovenia), Dying And Death At War - Concentration Zone: The Place Of (‘‘Special’’) Dying

58. Carmen Alexandrache (Romania), Death as a Factor of Social Communication Present In the Romanian Countries from the Foreign Travelers’ Perspective

59. Golie Talaie (The Netherlands), Post-Mortem Photography now

60. 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.

61. Mihai Chiper (Romania), The most famous Romanian affair of honour: Filipescu- Lahovary (1897). The implications of a deadly duel.

62. Noémi Tünde Farkas (Hungary), Thoughts on dying and suicide at the turn of the 18-19th Century

63. Lajos Hodi (Hungary), On Cremation in Hungary of nowadays

64. 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

65. 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

66. Luca Prestia (Italy), An Historical Analysis of Seven Cemeteries in the Northern-Western Italy

67. Cosmina Berindei (Romania), Cemetery between "place of memory" and space for manifestation of a community crisis. Case study: Rosia Montana

68. Constantin Bogdan (Romania), Strange Funeral Rituals: The Beauty Of Death And Funeral Feast

69. Ilona Kemppainen (Finland), Finnish funeral customs in manners guides

70. Andreia Martins (Brazil), Audiences of Death. Between Real and Virtual Funeral Wakes

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

72. Claudia Ionescu (Romania), Victorian Memento Mori: From Post-morthem Photography to Mourning Jewelry

73. Helen Frisby (UK), Widows, grief and mourning in Victorian England

74. Cristina Speranza Maria, Medina Bordea (Romania), The Psychologist’s Role in Palliative Cares

75. Bogdan Ceobanu (Romania), Comemorating the heroes: twenty-five years from the Romanian Independance war

76. Claudiu Stefani (Romania), Economic and social developments influence on suicide rates in Romania between 1990-2010. A retest of Emile Durkheim's theory

77. Olivia Ministeri (Italy), Self mutual help groups for people in grief in their recent online dimension

78. Iuga Marcela Cristina (Romania), The Eternal Time In Fairytales (The Dissemination Of The Land Of Youth Theme In Various Cultures)

79. Olga Gradinaru (Romania), V.I. Lenin – History of a Political Relic

80. Adriana Teodorescu (Romania), The Representation of Death in Literature. Theoretical Aspects

81. Hilary Grainger (UK),‘Old for New’: Sandwell Valley Crematorium, West Midlands, UK and its Architect, Martin Critchell

82. Sebastian Bartos (Romania), Queering Death: Dying and Mourning in the Gay Community

83. Cornelia Miclea (Germany), Handicapped People Die, too

84. Marius Rotar (Romania), European Echoes into the Romanian Cremationist Movement

Also at the conference will attend Marina Sozzi (Italy), University degli Studi Turin, Ariodante Fabretti Foundation, Cosmin Bodrean (Romania), vice president of Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association, manager of “Santul Gheorghe” Cemetery in Hunedoara and Constantin Musescu, editor in chief of “Magazin Funerar” (the only Romanian magazine dedicated to the funerary industry). We invited Mr. Peter Lakatos, member of the Romanian Parliament, to attend at the conference. Mr. Peter Lakatos is the main author of the new law of burials, cemeteries and crematoria in Romania and we do hope he will find time to come to Alba Iulia.

Information:

For your travel plan:

The Conference will officially begin on 29th of September, at 9 a.m
The conference will end on 1st October, after dinner hour (10 p.m.)
Please book your flights to Cluj Napoca or Sibiu airport. We will try to collect you from airport by bus but it is possible to not succeed it for all the participants because the large number of them (this is available for foreign participants at the conference). Please inform us, as soon as possible, about your flights sending a mail with these details at mrotar2000@yahoo.com or adriana.teodorescu@gmail.com
Very important: there are some low cost flights to Cluj Napoca and Sibiu airport. Please check this information when you will book your flights.
If you need extranights please inform us. All the extranights are free as accommodation.

Duration presentations:

20 minutes has been allocated for your presentation followed by 5-7 minutes for questions and answers. Information about the exact program (time-schedule) will follow (probably in August 2011). You can use a PowerPoint presentation.

There will be organized parallel sections at the conference.
Official languages of the conference: English and French

Important Dates:

10th of August – deadline for the confirmation of your presence at the conference (mrotar2000@yahoo.com)

20th of August – deadline for your payment (mrotar2000@yahoo.com)

13th of October – deadline for sending us your full paper for conference proceedings (the instructions for authors will be send to you by mail in July) (mailto:mrotar2000@yahoo.com)

The costs of accommodation will be covered by the organizers (meals, hotel accommodation, official reception), except for the travel expenses that will have to be covered by the participants themselves.

There is a conference fee: 30 EUR per each accepted paper.
This fee is mainly used for publication of the conference proceedings. Also, this fee could be used by organizers for other possible costs of the conference (to cover the costs of your transfer from the airport to Alba Iulia (in case) or the costs of the trip conference – for this reason we require the payment of it before conference).

If you have a companion person attending at our conference that person must pay her/his accommodation, meals and official reception, too. The accommodation, meals, official reception is free just for the participants.

Remember: not all the presentations will be published in the conference proceedings. If your paper will not follow the instructions for authors will not be published in the conference proceedings. Also, the editors of the proceedings have the right to reject some papers from the publication in the conference proceedings if those papers wouldn’t have a fit scientific content.

The conference fee can be paid here:

Name of the account holder: Asociatia Cremationista Amurg

Adress: Latureni, 12, Hunedoara

International Bank Account Number (IBAN) RO 07 BTRL 0630 4205 K646 06XX

Name of the bank: BANCA TRANSILVANIA
HUNEDOARA

Bank Identification COD SWIFT (BIC) : BTRL RO21 HD1

When paying report specific information: (obligatory!): Dying and Death Conference

The editors of the conference proceedings are Marius Rotar, Adriana Teodorescu, Marina Sozzi and Ilona Kemppainen.

You could find here some information about Alba Iulia town here: http://www.apulum.ro/index-en.htm and also about “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia : http://www.uab.ro/index_.php

If you do have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at mrotar2000@yahoo.com .

On the other hand, we will organize for the second time a karaoke party at the conference *optional (at the last edition this was a great success) and also a trip in the second day of the conference in the afternoon.

Deadline Extended for ABDD04 - 20th of June 2011

2011-06-10T09:17:00.005+03:00

1. We decided to extend with 10 days the deadline for abstract proposals to Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, fourth edition (ABDD04), International Conference, which will be held at "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, between 29th September and October 1st. Under these conditions, the final deadline for abstract proposals is 20th of June 2011.
This extension of the deadline is due to the fact that some our friends and also some researchers required this to us.
2. We received until today, 10th of June 2011, abstract proposals for ABDD04 from 19 countries (Turkey, Macedonia, Poland, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Israel, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Latvia, Austria, Albania, Norway, Finlaand, Brazil and Romania). This is a very good sign regarding the interest upon our conference.
3. The evalution process of abstract proposals is still in progress. I hope at the end of June 2011 I will put on this blog the list of accepted abstracts at our conference. Each researcher who sent us an abstract proposal for conference will receive a notification upon her/his proposal in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
4. Many thanks for your interest in our conference! I think ABDD04 will be a succesful scientific event inspiring all the participants. You are welcome to Alba Iulia, Transylvania, Romania!

News

2011-05-18T12:37:00.002+03:00

1. We have received until now abstract proposals from 8 european countries for our conference. There are two new countries on the map of our conference: Norway and Israel. This is a good sign! Remember: the deadline for submitting abstract proposals for ABDD04 is 10th of June 2010.
2. An useful link here: http://www.h-net.org/~death/

News

2011-04-20T18:51:00.003+03:00

1. My abstract proposal (The Issues of Cremation and the Romanian Orthodox Church) was accepted for a presentation at DDD10 conference which will be held at Radboud University of Nijmegen , The Netherlands, 9-12 of September 2011. I hope I can attend at this conference. If I intend to organize DDD10 Conference 2013 at Alba Iulia, Romania then it is a requirement for me to arrive at Nijmegen.
2. I sent an application to Romanian Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS) requiring again some funds for Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference, Alba Iulia, 29th September-1st October 2011. Romanian Authority for Scientific Research granted some funds for the last two editions of my conference. Let's hope again that ANCS help me!

News

2011-03-23T20:23:00.004+02:00

1.At the end of the next week I hope I can start to send the copies of Dying and Death 2010 proceedings (ABDD03) to the contributors.
2. The call for paper of ABDD04 2011 was posted on conferencealerts:
http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1is3x6 and also on the website of the Association for the Study of Death and Society (UK): http://www.deathandsociety.org/pages/events-detail.php?news_id=71
3. In the town of Alba Iulia (my town) was open the first palliative care unit:
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/alba_iulia/Alba-Iulia-Servicii-domiciliu-terminale_0_449355152.html This are bad but also good news!
4. This week I attend at a history conference at Iasi (Romania) presenting a paper on cremation issues in 19th century Romania.
5. If you are interested in the issues of cremation in Romania you could find an detalied list of the famous cremated romanians on
http://www.incinerareamurg.ro/romani-celebri-care-au-fost-incinerati
6. Next week I will submit an abstract for DDD10. I'm going to present a paper on the issues of cremation and the Romanian Orthodox Church in the last two centuries.

2011-03-08T09:55:00.003+02:00

The call for papers for Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference, which will be held in Alba Iulia, between 29th September and 1st October 2011 was posted on Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-net): http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=183548&keyword=dying
I wait on publishing this call for papers on Center for Death and Society Newsletter (UK), yahoo.groups academicBalkans and also ConferenceAlerts.
I cannot foresee at this moment how many participants ABDD04 we will have.

Call for Papers ABDD04 - 29th September/1st October 2011, Alba Iulia, Romania

2011-03-03T09:35:00.004+02:00

Call for Papers

The fourth edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference (ABDD04)

On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to attend the fourth edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference (ABBDD04) to be held between 29th September and 1st October 2011, at Alba Iulia, Romania.

The organizers of this conference are:

Alba County Council;
“1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, Romania;
Ariodante Fabretti Foundation, Turin, Italy;
National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia, Romania

Partners:

Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association;
Romanian Association for Death Studies

The main aim of this conference is to bring together historians, sociologists, psychologists, and physicians from all over the Europe and to attract original papers on the following topics:

1. Cultural history of death;
2. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century;
3. Bereavement in modern and post-modern society;
4. Suicide, euthanasia and the law;
5. End of life and palliative care;
6. Definitions of death in terms of biomedicine and otherwise;
7. Commemorating the dead in space and time;
8. Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation;
9. Religion and the meaning of death

Scientific Committee:

Marina Sozzi (Italy)
Peter C. Jupp (UK)
Illona Kemppainen (Finland)
Zdenek Nespor (Czech Republic)
Adriana Teodorescu (Romania)
Marius Rotar (Romania)

Organizing Committee:

Marius Rotar
Corina Rotar
Adriana Teodorescu
Lucian Teodorescu

Authors should submit an abstract before June 10, 2011 at the following addresses: mrotar2000@yahoo.com ; adriana.teodorescu@gmail.com or marina.sozzi@fastwebnet.it

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
These proceedings are edited as supplement of Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica, the journal of History Department of “1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, Romania. These proceedings are in indexed in CEEOL - (Central and Eastern European Online Library) (international Database). Please visit:
http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=7ec197d6-97e0-4afc-9fed-a35fd7a2afd0&articleId=59a8d81c-130e-4618-babe-5a00317a2570 to read the abstracts of the previous proceedings of ABDD03.

The costs of accommodation will be covered by the organizers (meals, hotel accommodation, official reception), except for the travel expenses that will have to be covered by the participants themselves.
If your paper will be accepted for publication in the conference proceedings, there is a publication fee: 25 EUR per each accepted paper.

Other information:

If your abstract proposal will be accepted for a presentation, please book your flights to Cluj-Napoca airport or Sibiu airport.

For the previous editions of this conference please visit: http://romaniandeathcremation.blogspot.com

ProMemoria Institute - Republic of Moldova

2011-03-01T17:47:00.003+02:00

Our colleagues and friends from Republic of Moldova founded an Institute of Social History. Its name is "ProMemoria".

You can read here a short presentation of this Institute:

The ISH “ProMemoria” aims to study history through the following objectives:

•Promotion and implementation of new methods and fields of studying and teaching history;
•Elaboration, implementation / realisation, evaluation, and monitoring of local / national and international levels projects in order to develop the scientific-didactical potential in the field of historical sciences;
•Organizing of seminars, symposia, conferences, regular meetings with attracting qualified specialists in the key areas of our activity;
•Promoting the editorial activities and training of specialists in the field of historical sciences;
•Propagation of historical knowledge in the republican mass-media and abroad;
•Professional assistance in the field through offering the access to information, advising and training;
•Creating a specialized library, accessible to interested persons.
http://promemoria.md/en/home

I hope they will be our partents for organising different scientific events and also for different grants research.

Cheers and Good luck, ProMemoria!

Death Conference Proceedings 2010 - Indexed!

2011-02-24T09:03:00.002+02:00

Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe Conference Proceedings 2010 was indexed in CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library). You can find out your paper, if you are one of the contributors at these proceedings, accessing the following link :

http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=7ec197d6-97e0-4afc-9fed-a35fd7a2afd0&articleId=94c4fc15-e5fc-440f-a748-2542c12d133a

You can read there the abstract of your paper finding also the page range of it.
This is an extraordinary moment in the history of the conference because our project will become more well known in the academical world increasing the scientific level of our efforts!
Also, you can quote your paper as already published.
Many thanks for your contribution!
I'm very grateful to Ileana Burnichioiu, PhD. and Daniel Dumitran, PhD. from the Departament of History, "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia for their kindly help to me!

Conference Proceedings 2010

2011-02-22T16:32:00.006+02:00

1. Here there are the final summary and the abstracts of Dying and Death Conference Proceedings 2010:
http://istorie.uab.ro/publicatii/colectia_auash/annales_14sp_mr/annales_14sp_mr.html

I hope in few days I can announce you that these conference proceedings are indexed in CEEOL. The indexing process takes longer than I though.
Also I hope that in three weeks I start to send the copies of conference proceedings to the contributors. Remember: the conference proceedings are edited as special issues of Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Historica (scientific annual published by the History Department of the University of Alba Iulia starting since 1997).
Secondly, please keep in your mind these conference proceedings are dedicated to the memory of our beloved colleague and friend Mariana Nitu (1980-2011). Mariana Nitu was one of the conference participants 2010 but first and foremost she was our dear friend and a very special person.
You can see above the main cover of this book. A little detail here: the conference proceedings 2010 have 630 pages and 44 papers!

2. This week the call for papers for Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe. International Conference, fourth edition, Alba Iulia, Romania will send out. This fourth edition of the conference will take place between 29th September and 1st October 2011.

Stay here for news!

Mariana Nitu (1980-2011)

2011-02-11T10:25:00.009+02:00

A terribile news here: our dear colleague and beloved friend Mariana Nitu, Architect , PhD. Student at The „Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Town Planning, Bucharest and co-direction with the„Alma Mater Studiorum” University, Bologna, Italy has passed away yesterday, 10 February 2011. She was an extraordinary person and an excellent specialist in her area of interest, too. Conference Proceedings Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, third edition, 2010 will be dedicated in the memory of Mariana Nitu.
Our hearts go out to Marianna Nitu's family and friends!

Here you can also read the announcement upon this event on the website of „Alma Mater Studiorum” University, Bologna, Italy:
http://www.dapt.unibo.it/DAPT/Bacheca/Avvisi/2011/02/Lutto_per_Mariana_Nitu.htm

Draft of the First Cover of Conference Proceedings Dying and Death 03 (ABDD03)

2011-02-04T11:50:00.005+02:00

Here is the draft of the first cover of Conference Proceedings Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference, 3th edition, Alba Iulia, Romania, 3-5 of September 2010 (ABDD03). Many thanks to my colleagues Ileana Burnichioiu PhD. and Daniel Dumitran PhD. from the Department of History, "1 December 1918" University of Alba Iulia for their kindly help to me. I hope you like this cover. I love it especially due to the "fallen mist" to the main image of the cover, a very good representation of the conference topic.

NEWS

2011-02-02T18:33:00.003+02:00

1. Proceedings of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference, third edition, Alba Iulia, Romania, 3-5 of September 2010 must be indexed in CEEOL until 28th of February 2011. So, I'm hardly work on these. There will be about 45 papers in the conference proceedings. I will put very soon here the contents and the abstracts.

2. I think we will organize the fourth edition of Dying and Death in 18-21st century Europe, International Conference beetwen 29 September and October The First 2011. I hope at the end of next week I will send out the call for papers. There will be some good changes with this conference. We try to keep this conference for free, namely not requiring money for registration and accomodation for the possible participants. We cannot earlier organize this edition of the conference because it would be too close by DDD10.

3. If you are interested in the issues of cremation in Romania please visit: http://www.incinerareamurg.ro/ Unfortunately there is just a romanian version of this website, but very soon we will have an english version one.

NEWS

2011-01-08T10:49:00.006+02:00

1. Pharos. The Official Journal of the Cremation Society of Great Britain and the International Cremation Federation mentioned in its winter number 2010 some things about Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference. Besides it is mentioned the activity of Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association. Please visit http://www.incinerareamurg.ro/ for reading more about the actions of this association (this site is just in romanian language).

2. I hope in two or three weeks the call for papers for the fourth edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference will send out. Good news upon it: Alba Iulia County Council will grant some funds for this conference. We hope we succed to keep this conference for free, namely not requiring money for registration or accomodation to the possible participants.

3. Finally in february 2011 all the copies of the proceedings of third edition of the conference will be edit, also sending these to all the contributors.

4. Here is a very useful link: http://www.isv.liu.se/nisal/forskningsnatverk-och-samarbeten/nordic-network-of-thanatology-nnt?l=sv for everyone interested in dying and death issues in nordic european countries. We hope we will colaborate with them!

TWELFTH COLLOQUIUM ON CEMETERIES

2011-01-04T17:18:00.000+02:00

TWELFTH COLLOQUIUM ON CEMETERIES

University of York, United Kingdom, Friday 27th May, 2011

A call is now being given for papers for the Twelfth Colloquium on Cemeteries, 2011. This event takes place in York every year and comprises a day meeting of scholars with an interest in cemeteries and burial. Disciplines that are routinely represented include historians, art historians, sociologists, anthropologists, historical archaeologists, landscape architects, conservators and policy analysts. The Colloquium often draws international speakers. A key aspect of the Colloquium is its informality and the time that is given to question and debate, making it a highly valuable forum in which to present new and emerging research. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to: Dr Julie Rugg, Cemetery Research Group, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD. Abstracts are also accepted by email: julie.rugg@york.ac.uk. Please ensure that the abstract is in Word format. Queries about the event should in the first instance be directed by email to the address given.

NOTE: This year, the Colloquium celebrates 20 years of cemetery research at the University of York. A special anniversary conference dinner will take place on Thursday 26th May.

The deadline for abstracts is 31st March 2011.

A Happy New Year!

2010-12-30T21:57:00.002+02:00

Happy New Year for all our friends! See you in 2011 at the fourth edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference and also at DDD10 in The Netherlands! Both conferences will take place in September! So, be prepared to be pulverized!

DDD10

2010-12-03T17:48:00.000+02:00

Dear Sir/ Madam,

The tenth Death, Dying and Disposal Conference (DDD10): Changing European Death Ways: New Perspectives in Death Studies.
We look forward to welcome you to the DDD’s first visit to Continental Europe and to Nijmegen, the oldest city in The Netherlands.
The conference will be held at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 9-12 September 2011 under the auspices of the University’s Centre for Thanatology and Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, and the international Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS).
The conference seeks to contribute to a comparative framework to improve our understanding of the rapidly and radically changing death ways, as well as to an integration of research-traditions from various countries in Europe and elsewhere. The overarching theme of the conference is mortuary variation in Europe and beyond.
Because dealing with death provides a valuable focus for comparative research on human experience and cultural life, proposals for papers are invited that relate to death, dying and disposal. Abstracts for papers (maximum of 250 words) and outlines of poster-topics (150 words) may be sent to thanatology@ru.nl.
Details concerning the conference programme will be made available on-line at the website of the Centre for Thanatology, Radboud University Nijmegen: www.ru.nl/ct/en.
To subscribe please fill out the form in the attachment and send it back to thanatology@ru.nl. Various discounts are available. Information can be found in the registration form.
You can always contact us for further information.
Budget-flights are available to nearby Weeze-Airport (Germany). www.airport-weeze.de/index.php?lang=en

Yours sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Eric Venbrux
Dr. Thomas Quartier

News

2010-11-26T23:53:00.005+02:00

I hope we can edit all the copies of the proceedings of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, International conference, third edition at the beginning of January 2011, also sending these to all the contributors. Also, we plan to organize the forth edition of this conference at the last weekend of September 2011. The call for papers will send out in January 2011.
On the other hand, finnaly a paper of mine was published in Transylvanian Review *indexed ISI: http://www.centruldestudiitransilvane.ro/detaliu.aspx?eID=575&t=noutati&cat=0
Here in Romania it is a craziness for scholars to publish their works in this type of ISI journals. I disagree with this custom but...

Dying and Death 03, Alba Iulia, Romania, September, 2010 in "Viata medicala" Journal

2010-10-20T17:16:00.002+03:00

As you can read above "Viata Medicala" journal (41/2010) from Bucharest published a paper upon Dying and Death 03 conference. This is a great moment in the history of this conference because for the first time medical press from Romania emphasizes the importance of our conference. I'm really happy with this!
On the other hand we intend to use for our conference an abbreviation for its easier identification. At the Lucian Teodorescu's suggestion the proper abbreviation for Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe would be ABDD, namely Alba Iulia Dying and Death, followed by the number of the conference edition.

Alcoholism02 International Conference

2010-10-08T19:33:00.001+03:00

Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues

International Conference, 2^nd Edition

Alba Iulia, 13-16 October 2010

Programme

Organizers:

Alba County Council

National Museum of Unification Alba Iulia

„1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

Partners:

Centro Culturale Italiano „G.M. Visconti” Alba Iulia

Alba County Directorate for Culture and National Heritage

Tradition Group Alba Iulia

Sponsors:

Wednesday, 13th of October

Arrival and registration of the participants

Location: Vila Elisabeta

20.00 – Welcome Dinner at Vila Elisabeta

Thursday, 14th of October

9.30-10.15. Opening Ceremony

Location: Union Hall, National Museum of Unification

10.15-10.45. Coffee break

10.45-14.00. Guided historical visit - National Museum of Unification and the Three Fortifications Route (Dr. Tudor Roşu)

14.00-15.30. Lunch at Vila Elisabeta

15.30-16.00. Siesta

16.00-20.00 – First Session:

Medical, Psychological and Social Issues of Alcohol Consumption

Location: Vila Elisabeta

Chairman: Claudiu Ştefani

The presentations will last for 20 minutes, and 5 minutes are allocated for discussions at the end of each paper. Although it is desirable to follow the programme exactly, last time modifications may appear.

16.00-16.25 - Cristina Maria Speranza, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapies „Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. (Coautor Medina Bordea) - The benefits of CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and it's high rates of succes in people with alcohol problems

16.25-16.50 - Wilfried Koehler, Klinik für Abhängigkeitserkrankungen und Konsiliarpsychiatrie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Detoxification and motivational therapy of alcoholism in Germany

16.50-17.15 – Vlad Zeno Millea, University „1 Decembrie 1918” Alba Iulia, Romania, Attitudes regarding alcohol consumption; determinant factors and implication

17.15-17.30 – Coffee Break

17.30-17.55 - Claudiu Şimonaţi, County Turism Company of Hunedoara, Romania, Alcohol - Primary risk factor for oral cancer

17.55-18.20 - Creţeanu Olimpia, Pielmuş Cristina-Ionela, Law Court Turnu Măgurele, Romania - The Alcoholism effects on the Social Life

18.20-18.45 - Marian Suciu, „Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - The Importance of the alcohol in the Society of East Asia

18.45-19.10 – Irina Takala, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia - Drinking as a Phenomenon of the Russian Culture

19.10-19.35 - Claudiu Ştefani, „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania - Influence of alcohol consumption over the risk bevaviors behind the wheel

19.35-20.00 – Eugen Băican, „Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania -

20.15 – Dinner, Vila Elisabeta

Friday, 15th of October

9.00-13.00 – Second Session:

History of Alcohol Consumption and Alcoholism

Location: Vila Elisabeta

Chair: Judy Stove

9.00-9.25 - Dana Burian, „Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Alcohol as a triggering factor for domestic violence in the second half of the nineteenth century in Transylvania

9.25-9.50 - Petar Atanackovic, Center for social researches and Alternative cultural organization, Novi Sad, Serbia - Alcohol and construction of social identities

9.50-10.15 - Marin Sâmbrian-Toma, University of Craiova, Romania - Pleasures of the body: a social history of drink in Wallachia (1700-1850)

10.15-10.40 - Costel Coroban, “Ovidius” University of Constanţa, Romania - Presbyterian & Jacobite Spirits in Early Modern Scotland

10.40-11.05 - Sidsel Eriksen, KØbenhavns Universitet, Denmark - ‘A disease of the rich?’ or ‘The rich men’s vice?’ – About preindustrial drinking

11.05-11.20 – Coffee Break

11.20-11.45 - Tudor Roşu, National Museum of Unification Alba Iulia, Romania - The Nationalist dimension in Romanian anti-alcoholism discourse untill the middle of the 20th Century

11.45-12.10 - Renée N. Lafferty, Brock University, Canada - The „Spirits” of Religion: Evangelicals and Medical Care for Toronto’s Dipsomaniacs, 1860-1890

12.10-12.35 – Iulia Adina Pop, “Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - The Hungarian Legislation over the Production and Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages During the Dual Monarchy

12.35-13.00 - Atilla Varga, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Masonry, Good Templars and the Alcoholism in 19th-20th Century Trannsylvania

13.30-15.00 – Lunch, Vila Elisabeta

15.30-19.45 – Third Session:

History, Religion, Social Asspects

Location: „1 Decembrie 1918” University

Chairman: Sidsel Eriksen

15.30-15.55 - Marius Rotar, „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania - Romanian anti-alcoholism Journals

15.55-16.20 - Oana Tămaş, „Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - „Because the drunkness is spread among our people..”. The anti-alcoholic Romanian press at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century

16.20-16.45 - Adrian Zandberg, Poland, „Down with the inn!” Polish temperance movement and the making of local prohibition (1920-1934)

16.45-17.10 – Monica Mureşan, „Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - The Problem of Alcoholism at the Romanian Clergy in Modern Transylvania

17.10-17.35 - Asztalos Ioan, „Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania - The antialcoholic congress of Cernăuţi in 1927 – case study on the religious media in Sibiu

17.35-17.50 – Coffee Break

17.50-18.15 - Adriana Tămăşan, „Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - The alcohol in the Muslim religion

18.15-18.40 - Nadia Văcaru, „Al. I. Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania - Alcoholism - stability factor disrupting Christian family in contemporary society

18.40-19.05 – Judith Stove, Australia, Alcohol, personal responsability, and the law: some recent Australian history

19.05-19.30 – Naima Khatoon, India

19.30-20.00 - Conclusions

20.30 – Dinner

Location:

My report to ANCS on Dying and Death 03 - in romanian language

2010-10-02T20:50:00.001+03:00

Raport asupra celei de a treia ediţii a conferinţei internaţionale Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe

Prezentare generală:

Cea de a treia ediţie a conferinţei internaţionale Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe a fost organizată de către Universitatea 1 Decembrie 1918 din Alba Iulia, Muzeul Naţional al Unirii, Alba Iulia, Radboud University of Nijmejen, Olanda, Ariodante Fabretti Foundation, Universitatea din Torino, Italia. Partenerii acestui eveniment ştiinţific au fost Consiliul Judeţean Alba, Direcţia de Patrimoniu Alba Iulia şi ANCS, Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association, Romanian Association for Death Studies si Giovanni Morandi Visconti, Centrul Cultural Italian din Alba Iulia. Iniţial conferinţa a fost preconizată a fi organizată la Râmeţ în judeţul Alba, însă datorită numărului mare de participanţi şi a numărului scăzut de posibilităţi de cazare a acestora s-a luat decizia, de către comitetul organizatoric al conferinţei, mutarea acesteia. Astfel, conferinţa a avut loc între 3 şi 5 septembrie 2010 în Alba Iulia fiind găzduită de Universitatea “1 Decembrie 1918” şi de catre Muzeul Naţional al Unirii. Au participat 71 de cercetători din 15 ţări europene (Marea Britanie, Italia, Danemarca, Finlanda, Germania, Bulgaria, Grecia, Franţa, Turcia, Olanda, Republica Ceha, Polonia, Ucraina, Republica Moldova şi România) precum şi din Noua Zeelandă, reprezentând diverse institute şi universităţi de prestigiu. În total au fost reprezentate peste 35 de universităţi, institute de cercetare sau alte ONG şi asociaţii.

Au fost organizate şase secţiuni ştiinţifice ale conferinţei, care datorită numărului mare de comunicării au trebuit sa fie organizate în paralel în primele doua zile. Organizarea de secţiuni paralele a reprezentat o premieră în istoria conferinţei, aspect ce relevă creşterea interesului ştiinţific asupra acestui eveniment, atât în ţară cât şi în străinătate.
De asemenea la conferinţa au participat în premieră cercetători din state europene nereprezentate pana acum, element ce releva creşterea prestigiului conferinţei în mediile academice. Astfel, pentru prima dată au fost reprezentate state din spaţiul balcanic, Europa nordică şi de asemenea s-a întărit participarea din spaţiul ex-sovietic.

Conferinţa s-a bucurat de o reflectare bună la nivelul presei locale dar şi naţionale:

http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/alba_iulia/Alba-Iulia-Cercetatori-conferinta-internationala_0_328767536.html
http://www.ziare.com/alba-iulia/stiri-actualitate/conferinta-despre-moarte-a-reunit-la-alba-iulia-peste-70-de-participanti-1613287
http://www.stiriazi.ro/ziare/articol/articol/conferinta-despre-moarte-a-reunit-la-alba-iulia-peste--de-participanti/sumar-articol/2955987/
http://www.eziare.com/stire/conferinta-despre-moarte,361486.html
http://stiri.freshinfo.ro/pentru-studenti-conferinta-internationala-despre-bautura-si-moarte-s159992671.html
http://www.informatiadealba.ro/2010/09/conferinta-despre-moarte-a-reunit-la-alba-iulia-peste-70-de-participanti /
www.monitorulab.ro/cms/arch/m_ab/.../2008-09-01.html

Din păcate, autorităţile locale au ignorat acest eveniment, în ciuda amplorii sale, lucru subliniat şi în presă.

Importanţa conferinţei:

Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference este unica manifestare dedicate tematicii din România şi centrul şi sud-estul Europei. Din această perspectivă organizarea cele de a treia ediţii reprezintă garanţia permanentizării acestui eveniment. Prin subiectul avut in atenţie conferinţa obligă la un dialog pluri si transdisciplinar. Cea mai simpla justificare a acestei afirmaţii constă în situaţia în care este imposibil a se analiza subiectul muririi si morţii prin prisma unei singure ştiinţe.Obiective avute in vedere:- conturarea unei noi reţele a cercetătorilor interesaţi asupra tematicii din Vestul, Estul, Centrul si Sud Estul Europei; dacă în cazul conferinţelor în domeniu organizate în Europa Occidentala se remarcă o participare aproape exclusivă a cercetătorilor din acest spaţiu geografic, Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, constituie cea mai buna punte de legătură între cercetătorii înteresaţi de subiect din întreaga Europa. Totodată, pentru prima data s-a înregistrat participarea din spatii non-europene, o alta dovada creşterii la nivel internaţional al acestei conferinţe.

- dezvoltarea studiilor de gen in România: dacă la precedentele ediţii ale conferinţei accentul a căzut pe o participare predominanta a mediului academic transilvănean, cea de a treia ediţie a înregistrat o participare deosebită de la diverse universităţi si institute din Bucureşti sau alte centre de cercetare din ţară.
- încurajarea dialogului interdisciplinar asupra tematicii, obiectiv realizat, conferinţa bucurându-se de participarea unor specialişti din diverse ramuri ale ştiinţei: istorici, sociologi, psihologi, medici, preoţi, filologi, asistenţi sociali, artişti (Golie Talaie, artist plastic din Olanda in acest an) sau filosofi ori, pe de altă parte, persoane direct implicate în industria funerară (Cosmin Bodrean, Brian Parsons); participarea doctorului Constantin Bogdan a constitute un punct în plus pentru nivelul conferinţei, domnia sa fiind preşedintele Societăţii Romane de Îngrijiri Paleative si Gerontologie, sub patronajul UNESCO.
- s-a urmărit la fel ca în cazul ediţiilor precedente sensibilizarea opiniei publice româneşti asupra importanţei tematicii muririi si morţii, datorită specificităţilor naţionale în domeniu.
- încercarea de implementare a unor modele vest europene în domeniu în România: spre exemplu serviciile de îngrijiri paliative (dictat şi de creşterea accentuată în ultimii ani a bolnavilor de cancer în România – obiectiv atins prin calitatea si numărul participanţilor la aceasta secţiune a conferinţei) sau a tanatologiei şi a sistemul death education (implementat în Occident prin diverse programe ale unor universităţi de prestigiu – de pildă, Center for Death and Society, Universitatea din Bath, Marea Britanie);

- încurajarea colaborării internaţionale în domeniu: obiectiv atins prin organizarea în cotutela cu Radboud University of Nijemgen, Olanda si Ariodante Fabretti Foudation, Universitatea din Torino, Italia a acestui eveniment
- încurajarea dezvoltării unor dezbateri polemice pe subiecte privind murirea şi moartea în România: euthanasia, sinucidere, tematica crematoriilor şi incinerărilor umane, ultima dintre acestea fiind considerată drept alternativă la rezolvarea crizei locurilor de veci din mediul urban românesc
- diseminarea rezultatelor sub forma editării unui volum al conferinţei: dacă până în acest an volum conferinţei a fost editat de sine stătător, din acest an proceedings-urile manifestării ştiinţifice de faţă au fost publicate ca supliment la Annales Universitatis Apulenis. Series Historica, revista indexata BDI, CEOOL. Situaţia de fata constituie un imbold esenţial în creşterea calitativă a manifestării ştiinţifice. De asemenea, aceasta împrejurare explică şi costurile mult mai ridicate implicate in editarea volumului conferinţei faţaă de ediţiile precedente. Se va încerca publicarea a doua articole din proceedings-uri conferinţei în jurnale ISI (Transylvanian Review)

Concluzii si propuneri pentru viitor:

- Obiectivele urmărite de către organizatorii conferinţei au fost atinse, chestiune demonstrata prin participarea extinsa din ţară şi din străinătate la aceasta manifestare ştiinţifică, multitudinea de subiecte atinse, cât şi prin reflectarea evenimentului la nivelul mass-mediei locale şi centrale. Publicarea volumul conferinţei asigura transparenţa demersului de fata. Din nefericire, datorită deadline-ului “scurt” nu toţi participanţii la conferinţă au reuşit să trimită în timp optim comunicările lor pentru publicarea acestora în volum. Ca urmare a creşterii prestigiului internaţional al conferinţei, Cambridge Scholar Publishing a propus tipărirea unei selecţii a unor lucrări susţinute şi publicate in cele trei ediţii ale conferinţei care sa apără sub forma unei cărţi ce va fi editată anul viitor. Astfel, vizibilitatea conferenţei va creste prin aceasta, în mod sensibil. Din cele peste 120 de articole publicate în volumele conferinţelor desfăşurate între 2008 şi 2009 vor fi selectate circa 20 pentru a fi publicate în această carte.

- De asemenea participanţii români la această conferinţă au decis în unanimitate revigorarea Asociaţiei Române pentru Studii asupra Morţii (RADS). Rostul acestei asociaţii este asigurarea unui nucleu divers de cercetători români asupra domeniului, traducerea pentru înţelesul publicului larg a politicilor sociale privind moartea în România, semnalarea deficienţelor actuale în sistemul românesc al morţii şi încurajarea organelor abilitate de a proceda la diverse modificări pentru îmbunătăţirea acestuia. Au fost aleşi ca membri ai consiliului de conducere ai acestei asociaţii: Marius Rotar – preşedinte, Victor Tudor Rosu – vicepreşedinte, Adriana Teodorescu – secretar.
- Din punct de vedere ştiinţific au fost discutate si analizate majoritatea subiecte presupuse de fenomenul muririi şi evenimentul morţii: analiza istorică a evoluţie atitudinilor în fata muririi si a morţii, a modalităţilor de dispunere asupra cadavrului (înhumare sau incinerare – ultimul dintre acestea fiind puţin răspândit în România); , bioetică, euthanasie, sinucidere, corelaţia boală-moartea în postmodernitate, subiectul îngrijirilor paliative, tematica literaturii (culturii), corelaţiile intre religie şi înţelesurile morţii etc. Ca o premiera a fost organizată o secţiune dedicate noilor ritualizării ale morţii in contemporaneitate, analizându-se tendinţe novatoare în domeniu.
- dimensiunea interdisciplinară, multiculturală, multietnică sau interconfesională este intrinseca acestei conferinţe. În consecinţă, dialogul purtat a fost deseori polemic, aspect ce a ridicat nivelul general al manifestării.
- La fel ca in ediţiile precedente la aceasta ediţiei s-a remarcat prezenta activa a unor persoane implicate În industria funerara la această conferinţă. Spre exemplu, Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association s-a implicat activ atât ca partener, cat şi ca sponsor principal al manifestării.
- Ca urmare a succesului deosebit al acestei ediţii a conferinţei s-a decis organizarea la un nivel a celei de a patra ediţii în ultima săptămână din septembrie 2011. De asemenea s-au demarat procedurile preliminare privind organizarea în premieră într-o ţară central sud est europeană, în speţă România, a celei mai importante conferinţe, pe plan mondial dedicate tematicii – Death and the Disposal of the Body pentru cea de a 11 ediţie preconizată ăn 2013. Pentru atingerea acestui scop, s-au iniţiat deja dialogurile cu Association for Death Studies, care patronează aceasta manifestare de mare prestigiu.

- cât priveşte posibilele modalităţi de creştere a conferinţei, este necesară pe viitor introducerea unei selecţii a participanţilor mult mai severă întrucât exista riscul de a se ajunge la o conferinţa cu peste 150 de participanţi, ceea ce implică costuri extrem de ridicate de suportat de către organizatori. De asemenea, comitetul organizatoric al conferinţei studiază posibilitatea de a introducere o taxa de participare minimă la conferinţă. În plus, una dintre cerinţele esenţiale ale conferinţei ar fi pe viitor implicarea si sensibilizarea mai activă a factorului deciziţional politic, pentru a i se semnala la nivel cat mai accentuat necesitatea reformei sistemului medical şi funerar din România. Se urmăreşte invitarea pentru ediţia următoare a conferinţei a unor membri ai Parlamentului României (spre exemplu senatorul UDMR Peter Lakatos – autorul proiectului noi legii a cimitirelor) sau a altor factori de decizie naţionali.

- In concluzie se poate considera ca a treia ediţie a Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe a fost cea mai reuşita dintre toate ediţiile acestei conferinţe, atât prin numărul si calitatea participanţilor si nivelul ştiinţific atins, precum si prin perspective care s-au deschis pentru dezvoltarea acestei manifestării si a unor colaborări internaţionale ulterioare.

Marius Rotar

Adrian Nastase's opinion upon Dying and Death 03 conference

2010-09-27T16:28:00.003+03:00

Adrian Nastase, the former prime minister of Romania, mentioned on his blog something about Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, International Conference. He was ironic with the general topic of our conference and also he tried to criticize his political enemies mentioning our conference:

"Cu toate ca, probabil, o sa vi se para un inceput prea morbid al acestei sectiuni, va anunt ca au existat doua stiri ale caror informatii mi-au ramas intiparite in minte zilele anterioare. Nu, nu este vorba despre remanierea guvernamentala, asa cum nu este vorba nici despre bataile la usa mamei unui anumit fost ministru al dinastiei Boc 4.

Primul subiect vorbea despre faptul ca in week-end, la Alba Iulia, a avut loc cea de-a treia editie a conferintei internationale “Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe”. Conform spuselor organizatorilor, evenimentul organizat in Romania este, citez, unic in Centrul si Sud Estul Europei. O prima concluzie? Pana si moartea se simte la ea acasa, unica si in centrul atentiei in Romania…

De cealalta parte, o alta stire, din acelasi flux, anunta faptul ca ministrul Educatiei este asteptat, culmea, tot la Alba Iulia la sfarsit de saptamana. Involuntar, fara o lectura prealabila a textului din urma, am facut o legatura malitioasa, ce-i drept, intre Congresul International si vizita lui Daniel Funeriu. Vizita care, nu in contextual remanierii, repet, ci in acela al ramanerii demne a domniei sale in functie (Ministerul Educatiei este cel mai vaduvit de fonduri minister in urma rectificarii bugetare, iar dascalii sunt cea mai umilita categorie sociala a Romaniei, alaturi de medici, de catre Traian Basescu), ar fi putut avea o prezentare la congresul mai sus-mentionat, cu titlul Moartea sistemului educational romanesc". (http://nastase.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/raspunsuri-vechi/#comment-106992 )

I fully understand the jokes and the ironies and I dolove these but I think Adrian Nastase minimizes our effort to organize this conference, taking into the laughter the conference.
This is my comment upon it on his blog approved already by him:

"Domnule Adrian Nastase,

Imi cer scuze ca va raspund asa de tarziu la ceea ce ati scris pe blogul dvs. legat de conferinta. In calitate de initiator si organizator principal al manifestari mentionate, nu pot decat sa-mi exprim regretul fata de aprecierile pe care le-ati facut. Inteleg ironia si umorul, insa in acest caz nu-si au avut rostul, intrucat vorbim despre un eveniment stiintific de inalta tinuta, unic intr-adevar in partea asta de lume. Nu ma apuc sa va vorbesc despre relevanta sa si nici nu va dau diverse linkuri care v-ar edifica asupra interesului academic existent de decenii bune asupra tematicii. Ar fi o pierdere de vreme. Vreau doar sa va spun ca, din pacate, vorba unui coleg, atunci cand organizezi un astfel de eveniment, dupa ce se incheie, realizezi, in calitate de cercetator, ca nu mai ai bani cu ce sa-ti platesti gazu’ fiind nevoit, de cele mai multe ori, sa pui bani din buzunar pentru organizare. Asta apropo de sprijinul autoritorilor locale si centrale. Iar ca satisfactie profesionala nu primesti de multe ori decat aprecieri hazlii la adresa muncii depuse.
Va stau oricand la dispozitie cu amanunte despre aceasta conferinta, ajunsa in acest an la a treia editie si care in 2010 a adunat cercetatori din 16 tari. De asemenea va pot trimite proceedings-urile conferintei din acest an, pentru a vedea ca ironiile dvs. nu isi au rostul. Proceedings-urile sunt indexate BDI si sper ca anul viitor sa le indexam ISI.
Puteti vizita blogul meu: http://www.romaniandeathcremation.blogspot.com pentru a va lamuri si mai bine despre ce a fost vorba.
Va putem invita anul viitor sa participati si sa vedeti, spre exemplu, dimenisiunile reale ale crizei in sistemul mortii din Romania (slaba dezvoltare a serviciilor de ingrijiri paliative, criza locurilor de veci in mediul urban, lipsa de reforma a sistemului funerar romanesc etc.)
Va multumesc!
Cu respect,
Marius Rotar" (http://nastase.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/raspunsuri-vechi/#comment-106992 )

Anyway it is a honor that my blog was mentioned on Adrian Nastase's blog and I'm not sad by his opinion.

Conference Proceedings 2010

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For conference proceedings 2010 we received about 42 papers. This is a good overall taking into account the participants' number at the conference. Right now I'm hardly working on my report which I have to send to ANCS, Romania. I will publish this report on my blog.
Also, Cambridge Scholars Publishing proposed to me to edit a book with some selected papers from all the editions of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, international conference. I think they and I will select maximum 20 papers for this book.

Thomas Quartier in action at karaoke party of Dying and Death 03, Alba Iulia 2010 !

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He is best singer at our conference's karaoke party, performing Bob Dylan!

Me performing Luminita Anghel's Let me try at Dying and Death 03 conference

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This is a very serious reason to laugh! Enjoy!

Dying and Death III, Alba Iulia, Romania, September, 2010

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Pictures + ELVIS

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At Ramet Monastery

Some of the conference's participants (without italian team and other participants from UK, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Romania, too)

Elvis at Dying and Death III conference

Pictures

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Cremation team (Peter C. Jupp, Zdenek Nespor, Hilary Grainger, Mihaela Bodrean, Brian Parsons, Marius Rotar)

Elvis never dies!

Me perfoming Luminita Anghel's Let me try

My daughter at Ramet monastery

Cyrill Nespor (Czech Republic) - the youngest participant at the conference

Conclusions' moment

Here are some pictures taken by me at the third edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, Alba Iulia, Romania, 3-5 of september 2010. I will post other pictures later. Stay here for this!

Thank you!

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On behalf of organizers and the organizing team of "Dying and Death in 18-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe", International Conference I wish to THANK YOU for your participation and your contribution at our conference. I think our conference was a great moment.
Here is the Rocky:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWR0k_R6XDE

In few days I will post here some pictures taken by.
See you very soon!

The Final Programme

2010-08-28T09:16:00.006+03:00

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.

Announcement

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Due to the many final arrangements which have to be done just tomorow I can post here the final programme of the conference scheduled by days, times, locations!
Stay here for this!

A very important change with the conference

2010-08-24T14:59:00.003+03:00

There is a very important change with the conference: due to the fact that the guesthouse where I intended to organize the conference cannot host all the participants, having also big problems with the room for meals, we decided to change the location of the Dying and Death III Conference from Ramet to Alba Iulia. We are about 74 participants, including here the organizing team! So, under these conditions all the participants at the conference will have their accomodation at Hotel Cetate in Alba Iulia. This is the link to see this Hotel: http://www.hotel.cetate.tourneo.ro/F_New/
This is a good hotel. On Thursday the conference programme by time schedule will be sending out on this blog.
Remember: in spite of this change all the costs conference for participants are free!

Thanks for understanding this!

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

2010-08-17T14:11:00.003+03:00

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

News

2010-08-09T11:07:00.004+03:00

I came back from my vacation to Romania. We received many confirmations for conference's participation. I think in 10-12 days we can arrange the final programme of Dying and Death III conference posting it on this blog.

Also, in few days I will post here the accepted papers for second edition of Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference.

Stay here for news!

The picture from above is taken by me into the one of the oldest rooms of Cenusa Crematorium's Columbarium in Bucharest.

New Deadline for Your Confirmation

2010-07-29T12:13:00.005+03:00

I will be gone for a week to Bulgaria at the Black Sea, taking my vacation together with my family *until 6 of August. For this reason I extented the deadline for your confirmation participation at Dying and Death III until 9th of August 2010.

I don't know if I will have internet connection over there during next week. So, if you have any question regarding the conference please contact Adriana Teodorescu, one of the members of organizing team of the conference, at adriana.teodorescu@gmail.com

The picture from above was taken by me last month and this is from Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest.

Another picture taken by me published in Adevarul

2010-07-26T14:27:00.006+03:00

Today "Adevarul", the most important newspaper from Romania published another picture taken by me on the page dedicated to the readers ( http://www.adevarul.ro/actualitate/Poza_lunii_5_254424584.html ). It's about the picture from the previous post on this blog, taken by me in the Columbarium of Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest.
Also, don't forget to confirm your presence at our conference Death and Death III, 3-5 of September 2010 sending a mail to me (mrotar2000yahoo.com ). Please tell me your flights details to Romania if you come from foreign country to Romania attending at our conference. We need these information for your accommodation and also to pick up you from airport.

Deadline

2010-07-19T12:09:00.003+03:00

I remind to you that the deadline of your confirmation participation at third edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, International Conference, Alba Iulia Ramet, 3-5 september 2010 is August The First 2010. Also, the deadline for sending us your full paper for conference proceedings is 16th of September 2010.
You can see above a very interesting picture taken by me into the Columbarium of Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest: the workers from there found the "perfect place" for storing their tools and slippers, too - into the niches of this Columbarium!!!! Halellujah !!!

Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, International Conference, third edition - Information for participants

2010-06-15T09:45:00.004+03:00

1. Instructions for Authors

Romanian Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS) will grant some funds for organizing the third edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, International Conference. Due to this fact we have to edit the conference proceedings latest 30 days after conference. As your presentation will be published in the conference proceedings I ask you to send it to us at marina.sozzi@fastwebnet.it; eric.venbrux@gmail.com; or mrotar2000@yahoo.com . The deadline for it is 16th of September 2010.
Here are the instructions for authors:
Papers are accepted only in English or French
Paper not exceeding 12,000 words
Please supply a short biographical note (50 words maximum) and information about your affiliation, postal address, and an email address.
Abstracts of not more than 200 words are required for all papers submitted.
Each paper should have 5 to 7 keywords
Style guidelines:
a).Page Format: B5, 2.5 cm above, below 2 cm, left 2 cm, right 2 cm, header1.5 cm, footnote 1 cm portrait (except annexes necessary to use type) edges in the mirror, align the left-right, a row spacing, indentation of first lines1.25 cm, without using the Tab key.
b. Recommended fonts: Times New Roman or Garamond (12 p. fortext p. 10 for footnotes and annexes 11 p. for summary).
c. The title should be written in capitals and centred, followed by the nameauthor's (right-aligned).
d. Running titile written in italics and centred 11 p., will contain the nameauthor's (on p. para) and the study title (possibly shortened, the odd page).Page number will be put underground and centred.
e. Summary will be placed at the end of the text and will be accompanied by a number of approx.
f. Annexes will be written in Word program under Windows, does not recognize textsent as image.
3. Illustration
Images must be of high quality jpg format., Bmp., Gif., Tiff. (Not allowed Xerox copies) and accompanied by explanations and sources of origin mentioning (Where applicable).
4. Drafting rules
a. Titles of books, studies, newspaper or magazine, mentioned in the text is written withitalics.
b. To draw up quotations are used bold, not italics,marking the opening of their being made in accordance with the rules of punctuation in English
When the author wants to emphasize a few wordsthe quotation, use italic characters, followed by mention of [national] or [nn].
For citations in classical languages will use italics, without quotation marks.
c. footnotes are permitted only (orders placed by using Insert Reference, footnote), generally prepared in accordance with Academy Romanian, noting that it will use abbreviations for further Citation sources / books / articles, and not 'op. cit..
Examples of full citation:
National Archives Directorate Alba County, Alba Prefecture fund, no.84/1938, f. 22r (v).
Paul Johnson, A History of the Modern World 1920-2000, Bucharest, Humanitas, 2003, p. 84.
Nikolaus Boroffka, 'Observations on the discoveries of prehistoric amberRomania', in Apulum, XXXIX (2002), p. 147.
R.J.W. Evans, "Joseph II Habsburg and Nationality in the Land", in HM Scott ed.,Enlightened absolutism. Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe, London,Macmillan, 1990, p. 209-219.
Examples of abbreviations:
DJAAN, prefecture, no. 76/1880, f. 2r (v).
Johnson, A History, p. 56.
Boroffka, Observations, p. 150.
Evans, Joseph II, p. 210.
The conference proceedings will be published as supplement of the journal Annales Universitatis Apulensis, Series Historica (http://istorie.uab.ro/publicatii/colectia_auash/auash_prezentare.html). This journal is indexed in CEEOL (Central and Estern European Online Library) scientific international database (http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/publicationlist.aspx).

2. Other informations:

Also, please confirm your participation at our conference until August the First 2010.
Please inform us about your flights to Romania (time of your arrival and your departure in order to pick up you from Cluj Napoca or Sibiu airports).
The first day of the Conference will take place in Alba Iulia *opening ceremony and the first two sections of the conference. Due to the larger numbers of the presentations we have to organize in the first day of the conference two parallel sections. The next two days of the conference will take place at Ramet.
All the participants will have their accomodation in Ramet during the conference(http://www.pensiunearamet.ro/ ). In the first day of the conference a bus will take the conference participants for going from Ramet to Alba Iulia (in the morning).
If you have any other questions regarding the conference please contact dr. Marius Rotar (mrotar2000@yahoo.com)

Papers at the Dying and Death III, International Conference

2010-05-27T12:11:00.001+03:00

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

2010-05-24T12:54:00.003+03:00

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

2010-05-20T19:31:00.004+03:00

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

2010-05-19T10:17:00.004+03:00

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

2010-05-13T12:44:00.004+03:00

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

2010-05-06T10:50:00.004+03:00

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

2010-05-04T13:58:00.004+03:00

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.

AMURG

2010-04-23T19:08:00.002+03:00

A historical moment here: the romanian version of Amurg.Romanian Cremation Association's website is available for now on: http://www.incinerareamurg.ro/
I'm very happy and I'm proud to be part of this!
In two weeks I hope we will have the english version of it.

Don't forget: the deadline for submission abstract proposal for our third edition of Dying and Death conference is 15 of May 2010. You can find details in my previous two postings on this blog!

Deadline - 15 MAY!

2010-04-21T19:34:00.003+03:00

I remind to you the deadline for the third edition of Dying and Death conference is 15 OF MAY 2010!
You can send abstract proposal for one of these nine sections of our conference, until this time, to mrotar2000@yahoo.com ; eric.venbrux@gmail.com or marina.sozzi@fastwebnet.it
Please visit http://www.uab.ro/sesiuni_2010/die/index.htm if you prefer the on-line registration at Dying and Death in 18th--21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, International Conference, third edition

On the other hand, at the beginning of next week the website of AMURG. Romanian Cremation Association will be available. We have the draft of this website but we must make some improvements to it.

Registration on-line at our conferences

2010-04-15T09:41:00.005+03:00

The registration at our both conferences which we organize this year is avaiable on-line now.
Please visit http://www.uab.ro/sesiuni_2010/die/index.htm for the registration at Dying and Death in 18th--21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, International Conference, third edition
http://www.uab.ro/sesiuni_2010/alcoholism/index.htm for the registration at Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference, second edtion.
Also, me and Tudor Rosu sent two applications to ANCS, Romania for funding these conferences. Let's hope we get these!
You can find information about both conferences on http://www.uab.ro/conferinte/index.php?cale=conferinte2010 too

Albaiulianul

2010-04-09T20:21:00.003+03:00

The "Albaiulianul" published, in romanian language, a short paper of mine about the actual situation of cremation in Romania. This paper is not a scientific one, but a paper for popularization the practice of cremation and our association, Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association, too. Here is the link to this paper: http://www.albaiulianul.ro/asupra-incinerrii-i-crematoriilor-umane-in-romania.html
I tried to be calm talking on cremation, not burning myself into the feelings' flames!

Review

2010-04-03T12:25:00.003+03:00

This is a review of the Proccedings of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference, second edition, published in Apostrof, a romanian cultural journal from Cluj Napoca: http://www.revista-apostrof.ro/articole.php?id=1102 *unfortunately this review is written in romanian language. The author, Stefan Borbely is a Professor at the Department of World and Comparative literature of The Faculty of Letters in Cluj, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj Napoca, Romania. This is a very favorable review considering our conference a great succes but Stefan Borbely has doubts that romanian cultural authorities will support us in the future.

Draft Programme of XIVème CONGRÈS international D’ÉTUDES SUR LES DANSES MACABRES ET L’ART MACABRE EN GÉNÉRAL, SIBIU, (ROUMANIE), 20 - 23 MAI 2010

2010-03-30T09:40:00.005+03:00

PROGRAMME
(susceptible de modifications)

JEUDI, le 20 mai 2010

10h – 12h
Accueil et inscription des participants, à la Maison des Arts (Casa Artelor), 21, Piaţa Mică

Inscription des participants étrangers (orateurs et auditeurs) au rez-de-chaussée de la Maison des Arts, (Casa Artelor), 21, Piaţa Mică;
Inscription des participants roumains (orateurs et auditeurs) au Ier étage de la Maison des Arts (Casa Artelor), 21, Piaţa Mică

12h – 13h45
Visite guidée du centre historique de la ville de Sibiu, par M. Alexandru Gh. SONOC, Directeur des Collections d’Art du Musée National Brukenthal

13h45 – 15h
Déjeuner en commun, Restaurant HERMANIA, 2, Rue Filarmonicii

15h15 – 15h30
Ouverture du Congrès par le Président de l’Association française « Danses macabres d’Europe », M. Bertrand UTZINGER et par Mme Cristina BOGDAN, Faculté de Lettres, Université de Bucarest

DANSES MACABRES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI

Présidence de séance: Irmgard SEDLER (Allemagne)

15h30 – 15h50
Irina CRISTESCU (Roumanie), “A closer look at the German late-medieval Totentanz: the Dances of Death in Lübeck, Basel and Berlin”;

15h50 – 16h10
Lenke KOVÁCS (Espagne), « Effroi ou intrépitité – les différentes manières de faire face à la Mort dans la ‘Representació de la Mort’ majorquine du XVIe siécle »;

16h10 – 16h30
Antonio PREVITALI (Italie), titre réservé;

16h30 – 16h45
Pause café

16h45 – 17h05
Hélène UTZINGER (France), « Une Danse macabre moderne : celle de Christian Bizeul, 1989 »;

17h05 – 17h25
Irmgard SEDLER (Allemagne), « Le chant du roi et de la mort (königslied). Un jeu de carnaval de la Transylvanie entre Danse macabre et jedermann »;

17h25 – 17h45
Marie-Dominique LECLERC (France), « Une danse macabre minuscule et insolite. L’édition parisienne d'Etienne Groulleau »;

18h – 19h45:
Vernissage de l’Exposition Gert Fabritius, Maison des Arts (Casa Artelor), 21, Piaţa Mică

Réception oficielle (Discours des organisateurs et des partenaires du XIVe Congrès International d’études sur les Danses macabres et l’art macabre en général)

20h
Dîner en commun, Restaurant BUTOIUL DE AUR, 4, Strada Turnului

VENDREDI, le 21 mai 2010

ART ET PÉDAGOGIE MUSÉALE. LES COLLECTIONS BRUKENTHAL

Présidence de séance: Dana HRIB (Roumanie)

10h – 10h20
Maria Olimpia TUDORAN-CIUNGAN, (Roumanie), “Ambiental scenery in the macabre depictions of Alessandro Magnasco”;

10h20-10h40
Anamaria TUDORIE, Raluca TEODORESCU (Roumanie), “A ludic approach of macabre thematic in museum education activities”;

10h40-11h
Dana HRIB (Roumanie), “The Naked and the Dead: typologies in religious European painting of Brukenthal collection”;

11h – 11h15
Pause café

11h30 – 13h30
Visite guidée des Collections d’Art du Musée National Brukenthal (par M. Alexandru Gh. SONOC, Directeur des Collections d’Art du Musée National Brukenthal) ou visite guidée du Musée d’Histoire (La Maison Altemberger) au choix

13h45 – 15h
Déjeuner en commun, Restaurant HERMANIA, 2, Rue Filarmonicii

LES ESPACES DE LA MORT

Présidence de séance: Alexandru Gh. SONOC (Roumanie)

15h10 – 15h30
Mihaela GRANCEA (Roumanie), « L’Image de la Mort à Săpânţa »;

15h30 – 15h50
Florenţa SIMION (Roumanie), « La mort dans la ville – signes et monuments funéraires dans les villes du sud de la Roumanie»;

15h50 – 16h10
Antal LUKACS, Aurel DRAGNE (Roumanie), « Ofrandes et / ou reliques dans les églises orthodoxes de Transylvanie. Documents archéologiques »;

16h10 – 16h30
Marius ROTAR (Roumanie), “Cremations and Crematoria in the Public Space of Romania after 1989”;

16h30 – 16h50
Marian ŢIPLIC (Roumanie), “The funerary ritual in Transylvania (9th-10th). Between the steppe model and Christianity.

16h50-17h10
Pause café

TECHNIQUES MODERNES D’ENREGISTRER LA MORT

Présidence de séance: Emilie JAWORSKI (France)
17h10 – 17h30
Simona CONSTANTINOVICI (Roumanie), « Considérations stylistiques sur le macabre dans la peinture et la littérature. Dali et Urmuz »;

17h30 – 17h50
Regula ODERMATT-BÜRGI (Suisse), “Die Frau und der Tod im Werk von Barbara Gut”;

17h50 – 18h10
Adela TOPLEAN (Roumanie), “Does Modern Medical Macabre Really Have a Sacred Dimension? The Merits and the Limits of a Sociological Inquiry”;

18h10 – 18h30
Pause café

18h30 – 18h50
Victor Tudor ROŞU (Roumanie), “World War I, the Silent American Film (1915-1927) and the Representation of Death”;

18h50 – 19h10
Emilie JAWORSKI (France), « Images de la mort, mort des images. De la portraitisation à l'occultation des défunts en Pologne »;

19h10 – 19h30
Jan VAN DEN DRIESSCHE (France), titre réservé;

19h30 – 19h50
Film réalisé par Jan VAN DEN DRIESSCHE (France)

20h Dîner en commun, Restaurant BUTOIUL DE AUR, 4, Strada Turnului
SAMEDI, le 22 mai 2010

SACRÉ ET MACABRE. EXEMPLES ROUMAINS

Présidence de séance: Bertrand Utzinger (France)

10h – 10h20
Cătălina VELCULESCU, Ileana STĂNCULESCU (Roumanie), « Eglises en bois et icônes – rituels d’enterrement »;

10h20 – 10h40
Cristina BOGDAN (Roumanie), « Les Cavaliers de l’Apocalypse – l’histoire et le périple d’un thème iconographique dans l’espace occidental et roumain »;

10h40 – 11h
Silvia MARIN-BARUTCIEFF (Roumanie), « L’art de fuir le canon. Une classification morphologique des représentations de Saint Christophe en Roumanie »;

11h – 11h20
Pause café

11h20 – 11h40
Laura JIGA ILIESCU (Roumanie), “Narrative configurations of the Death in the Romanian traditional culture. Personnage, self, meanings”;

11h40 – 12h
Ana DUMITRAN (Roumanie), “Representations of the Three Faced Holy Trinity in the Romanian Environment from Transylvania. Theological Significations, Ways of Spreading, Diverse Ways of Artistic Expression”;

12h15 – 13h
Visite guidée de l’exposition temporaire “Gotica”, Musée National Brukenthal

13h15 – 14h30
Déjeuner en commun, Restaurant HERMANIA, 2, Rue Filarmonicii

LA LONGUE DURÉE DES IMAGES DE LA MORT

Présidence de séance: Claude BÉZIERS (France)

14h45 – 15h05
Alexandru Gh. SONOC (Roumanie), « Considérations sur le motif de la bête féroce et dévoratrice, ainsi que sur les représentations de ľEnfer intestinal dans le sud de la Transylvanie »;

15h05 – 15h25
Bertrand UTZINGER (France), « Du gisant au transi : le tombeau du cardinal Jean de Lagrange »;

15h25 – 15h45
Jean LETEINTURIER-LAPRISE (France), « Le Dit des trois Morts et des trois Vifs au centre du programme iconographique de Villevillon »;

15h45 – 16h05
Barbara KOLKMANN-KLAMT (France), « La dynamique rituelle de la figure de la Mort dans ‘les Vers de la Mort’. Est-ce qu’il s’agit d’un mouvement vers un culte d’égérie ? »

16h05-16h25
Georges FRECHET (France), « Deuil de pierre : les Mises au tombeau du Christ à la fin du Moyen-âge »;

16h25 – 16h45
Patrick LE CHANU, (France), « Quelques réflexions sur l'évolution du thème de la Vanité de toutes choses du XVe au XVIIe siècle »;

16h45 – 17h05
Claude BÉZIERS (France), « Anatomie, art macabre et beaux-arts »;

17h30 – 19h30
Visite guidée du Musée de la Civilisation Populaire Traditionnelle ASTRA, par le muséographe Ştefan Păuceanu

Spectacle avec une danse traditionnelle roumaine de la zone de Vrancea („Chipăruşul”)

20h
Dîner en commun au Restaurant du Musée de la Civilisation Populaire Traditionnelle ASTRA

DIMANCHE, le 23 mai 2010

EXCURSION AUX ALENTOURS DE LA VILLE DE SIBIU

L’église orthodoxe de TĂLMĂCEL (représentations macabres) – XVIIIe siècle

L’église orthodoxe de RĂŞINARI (la Roue de la Vie) – XVIIIe siècle

14h30 –16h
Déjeuner en commun

L’église orthodoxe de SIBIEL et le Musée d’Icônes sur glace « Pr. Zosim Oancea » de SIBIEL (représentations macabres, images du Saint Haralambe, Le Jugement dernier, La Crucifixion)

Call for Papers: Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference, second edition, Alba Iulia, Romania, 13 – 15 October 2010

2010-03-20T12:19:00.004+02:00

Call for Papers:

Second edition of International Conference on Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, Alba Iulia, Romania, 13 – 15 October 2010

On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to attend the second edition of Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference to be held between 13 – 15 of October 2010, in Alba Iulia, Romania.The organizers of this conference are Alba County Council, National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia, Romania; “1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, Romania.

The aim of the conference is to bring together historians, sociologists, psychologists, and physicians from all over the world and to attract original papers on the following topics:

1. History of Alcoholism: history of production, distribution and consumption of alcohol
2. Social Issues of Alcoholism (social, cultural, psychological and medical aspects)

Scientific Committee:
Hasso Spode (Germany)
Dan Malleck (Canada)
Ron Roizen (United States)
Toader Nicoara (Romania)
Marius Rotar (Romania)
Victor Tudor Rosu (Romania)
Claudiu Stefani (Romania)

Organizing Committee:

Marius Rotar
Victor Tudor Rosu
Corina Rotar
Liviu Zgarciu
Rares Diodiu
Claudiu Stefani
Oana Tamas

Authors should submit an abstract before 20 June, 2010 at the following addresses: mrotar2000@yahoo.com; tudor.rosu@yahoo.co.uk Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. These proceedings will be edited as supplement of Caiete de Antropologie Istorica (Handbook of Historical Anthropology), Semestrial Journal Edited by the Seminar of Historical Anthropology, “Babes-Boylai” University of Cluj Napoca, Romania (http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro/hiphi/CAI/home_en.htm ). This journal is indexed by Copernicus.
The costs of accommodation will be covered by the organizers, except for the travel expenses that will have to be covered by the participants themselves.

Other information:

The Conference and participants’ accommodations will be at Vila Elisabeta in Alba Iulia (http://www.vilaelisabeta.ro/welcome ).
If your abstract proposal will be accepted for a presentation please book your flights to Cluj Napoca airport or Sibiu airport.For the previous editions of this conference please visit http://romaniandeathcremation.blogspot.com/ (tag: alcoholism)

2010-03-18T13:52:00.000+02:00

AMURG. Romanian Cremation Association + Famous Cremated Romanians (XXIX)

2010-03-17T10:44:00.006+02:00

As I announced already, yesterday 16 of March 2010 Justice Court from Hunedoara approved the statutes and the existence of Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association. But We have to wait for a week to receive all the offical documents for the functioning of our association. So, I think from the next week we will start the registration action for the possible Amurg's members. Stay here with us for all the details regarding this!
Famous Cremated Romanians (XXIX):
1944
Anton Badulescu - General of Border Guard of Romanian Army
Alfred Pagoni - composer, he died in the bombing of German Nazy avition on the Bucharest in August 1944, being cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest
1946
Alexandru Papana - aviator, died in Las Vegas in 1946, commiting suicide, he asked his ashes to be scattering from an airplane *I don't know if his wish was accomplished or not.
1975
Vasile Firoiu - writer
Decebal Niculescu Zinca - professor, PhD., he introduced the importance of radioisotopes in the development of medicine studies
Robert Braunstein - international box referee
2010
Michaela Iordache - professor, PhD., the wife of the famous romanian actor Stefan Iordache

2010-03-14T12:18:00.000+02:00

On 22 of March 2010 will take place a public presentation of both the Proceedings edited by us (Dying and Death, second edition and Alcoholism, first edition) at the National Museum of Unification from Alba Iulia. The Proceedings will be presented by PhD. Vasile Moga (principal researcher, National Museum of Unification from Alba Iulia - Alcoholism I) and PhD. Diana Campan (associate professor, "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia - Dying and Death II).

ESF

2010-03-10T09:04:00.003+02:00

I submitted online an application to ESF. I'm the project leader of this and the principal investigators project are PhD. Zdenek Nespor (Czech Republic) and professor Eric Venbrux (The Netherlands). Let's hope we get this!
The title of our ESF application is:
Mortuary Variation in Europe: A Comparative Study of Attitudes Towards Cremation in Romania, the Czech Republic and The Netherlands

News

2010-03-08T11:38:00.006+02:00

Florina Codreanu (Romania), Aleksandra Vuletic (Serbia), Adriana Teodorescu (Romania) at the second edition of our conference

Ann Malamah Thomas (UK), Mirjam Klaasens (the Netherlands) and Janneke Peelen (the Netherlands)

1. 16 of March 2010 is a historical day for us: Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association will be an official structure. I have to go to Hunedoara Justice Court for the final decision upon it but this decision is a favourable one.
2. Stefan Borbely, profesor at Babes Boylai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania, wrote in Apostrof journal a very good review upon the Proceedings of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference, second edition. I hope very soon I can post this review here. Many thanks to Adriana Teodorescu for this information.
3. We started to receive abstract proposal for the third edition of Dying and Death Conference. Until now we have receieved some such proposals for Poland, Italy, Hungary and Romania. Remember: the deadline for sending to us abstract proposals for this conference is 15 of May 2010.
4. This week the call for papers of the second edition of Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues will send out. Stay here for this!

Mortality!!!

2010-03-05T13:04:00.005+02:00

Finaly a paper of mine was published in the famous Mortality Journal (The Mask of the Red Death: the Evil Politics of Cremation in Romania in December 1989). Here is the link to the abstract of it: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a919672850

I tried for two times before to publish in this journal but both papers of mine was rejected by. But now they accepted my paper for publication. I'm so very happy with this. Many thanks to Helen Frisby, Peter C. Jupp. Tony Walter, Sheila Harper, Andra Hosking (Jessy - my old and dear friend), Niall (Andra's husband), Glennys Howarth and Irene Vasiu who helped and encouraged me to not give up to this.

Proceedings of Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference, first edition, Alba Iulia, Romania, 28-29 of August 2009

2010-03-03T12:11:00.005+02:00

Finnaly the Proceedings of Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference, first edition, Alba Iulia, Romania, 28-29 of August 2009 were printed. These proceedings have 24 papers, 242 pages, ISBN 978-973-117-258-3 being published as supplement of Caiete de Antropologie Istorica journal (B+ CNCSIS).
Next week we will start to send these proceedings to all the contributors of it.

Three Pictures from the Second Edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference, Alba Iulia, 25-27 of September 2009

2010-03-02T09:42:00.010+02:00

Tony Walter (UK), Peter C. Jupp (UK), Ioan Ileana (Romania), Marius Rotar (Romania), Constantin Inel (Romania), Victor Tudor Rosu (Romania)

Anna Kubiak (Poland), Emily Jaworski (France) and Constantin Inel (Romania)

Me and my friend Joanna Wojtkowiak from the Netherlands

AMURG. Romanian Cremation Association

2010-02-26T08:34:00.005+02:00

Having in my mind the idea that in a very short time Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association will be a functional structure for sustaining and promoting cremation in Romania I put here a picture of the interwar application for accesion for anyone to become member of Cenusa. Romanian Cremation Society (1937). This is a very important piece of what means a history of cremation in Romania and a very strong argument for us to restore the tradition of the interwar romanian cremationists.

AMURG. Romanian Cremation Association

2010-02-23T13:37:00.004+02:00

Last week I met my friend and partner Cosmin Bodrean. We talked a lot about our plans to develop cremation in Romania. Due to the financial crisis in Romania we believe now it's hard to open a crematorium in Transylvania and we will try to develop a stronger system to take the bodies of the transylvanian romanians who want to be cremated to the Sgezed crematorium in Hungary. This is the first practical step for promoting cremation here. On the other hand, the best ideological tool for sustaining and promoting cremation here is our association AMURG. Romanian Cremation Association. In very short time we can facilitate to you to become member of our association. At the very first sight I think we will have about 30 members at the beginning of our asociation. In my opinion this is a very good begining having on my mind the fact that in 1923 when Cenusa. Romanian Cremation Society was founded this had just 14 members!
So, if you are interested to promote and sustain cremation in Romania come with us into the fire, becoming member of AMURG. Romanian Cremation Association!

Proceedings of the Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference, first edition, Alba Iulia, Romania, 28-29 August 2009

2010-02-17T12:17:00.004+02:00

Here is the first cover of the proceedings Alcoholism Conference 2009. Me and Tudor Rosu are the editors of these.

News

2010-02-15T13:46:00.009+02:00

Vitan Barzesti Crematorium in Bucharest
My friend Alexandru Murad Mironov searching for Mihai Popovici's grave in Balaneanu cemetery in Bucharest together with me!
Mihai Popovici's obituary published in Romania Libera newspaper in 1968

1. I was gone for couple of days to Bucharest trying again to see the archive of Cenusa and Vitan Barzesti crematoria in Bucharest. Unfortunately, in spite of the Adela Frecateanu's efforts, one of the lawyers of ACCU, to help me *(many thanks for your kindness, Adela!), I didn't succed to done it. I think the reason they refused me again with it is not to hide some secrets but just the bureaucracy of the employers of ACCU. Anyway they promised will permit me to see all these archives at my next visit at ACCU . I believe that in maximum 3 weeks I will be gone again to Bucharest for it.
Also, I was to Balaneanu cemetery in Bucharest searching for the grave of Mihai Popovici, one of the most important romanian cremationists, together with my friend Alexandru Murad Mironov from University of Bucharest. Unfortunately, we didn't find this grave.
2 I'm working with professor Eric Venbrux from University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands and my friend Zdenek Nespor, from Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic for an application at a common project research with european funds. The topic of this research project is Cremations and Crematoria in 20th-21st century Europe: Between Western and Eastern European Issues of Cremation. My main problem is the fact is very hard to me to find others 5 researchers in Romania interested in cremation issues, exceepting myself!

The Proceedings of Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference, 2009

2010-02-08T14:19:00.005+02:00

This is a picture of a hard drunk man from Alba Iulia taken by me 2 weeks ago. Location of this: bus station of Alba Iulia, Romania!

The Proceedings of Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference, 28-29 of August 2009, Alba Iulia, Romania will be published as supplement of Caietele de Antropologie Istorica (Journal of Historical Anthropology, semester journal edited by the Seminar of Historical Anthropology, "Babes-Boylai" University of Cluj Napoca, Romania, editor in chief prof. Toader Nicoara). This journal is indexed in International Database. Here is the link to this journal: http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro/hiphi/CAI/numere.htm

The Contents Draft of the Proceedings of Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference, Alba Iulia, 28-29 of August 2009

2010-02-02T09:10:00.004+02:00

CONTENTS
FACT OR FICTION? AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY OF ALCOHOLISM.... 9
Hasso SPODE
BETWEEN SUPPORT, LACK OF INTEREST AND MOCKERY. PUBLIC
PERCEPTION OF ALCOHOLISM AND ANTI-ALCOHOLISM IN SERBIA IN
THE FIRST HALF OF 20TH CENTURY........ 17
Petar ATANACKOVIĆ
THE COMPATIBILITY OF THE MINNESOTA MODEL OF ADDICTIONS
TREATMENT WITH THE ROMANIAN CULTURE.......25
Floyd FRANTZ
SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECTS: TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISM IN A
MULTI-CULTURAL SOCIETY ...................... 31
Wilfried K. KOEHLER
INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY AND SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE
PREVENTION...........35
Patrick Dimitris AKRIVOS
ALCOHOLISM, A SOCIAL PHENOMENON IN THE ROMANIAN
TERRITORIES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY.............. 41
Oana Mihaela TĂMAS
“100 grams for Victory!” or the dilemmas of collective memory in the Republic
of Moldova............ 51
Ludmila COJOCARI
„DRUGS OF THE WORKING CLASSES”. THE SUBSTITUES OF LEGAL
VODKA IN INTERWAR POLAND............59
Adrian ZANDBERG
ALCOHOLISM AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY: INDIAN PERSPECTIVE 69
Naima KHATOON
ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM IN WOMEN EVERYDAYS IN THE
ROMANIAN SPACE (1850-1940) ........ 79
Iulia Adina POP
ALCOHOLISM AS GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE IN THE TRANSYLVANIAN
GREEK-CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH
AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY..... 95
Monica MURESAN
TEMPERANCE AND ABSTINENCE IN TRANSYLVANIA AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY. THE CASE OF THE THEOLOGICAL
ASSOCIATION IN BLAJ...............107
Victor-Tudor ROSU
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS IN CHRONIC ALCOHOLIC PATIENTS......... 117
I. MARINCU, L. NEGRUŢIU, I. IACOBICIU, Ioana TODOR, A.M. NEGHINĂ,
M. CORNIANU, R. NEGHINĂ..........117
A SOCIAL STUDY OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN ALBA COUNTY ... 125
Claudiu STEFANI
VITICULTURE IN ALBA COUNTY.............. 143
Adriana ŢUŢUIANU, Daniela Elena CUCUI, Adina GOSA
THE ANTI-ALCOHOLISM ACTION IN SOVIET MOLDOVA BEETWEN 1985-1987...........155
Virgiliu BÎRLĂDEANU
SEVERAL ACCOUNTS ON THE WORSHIP OF LIBER PATER-DIONYSUS
IN APULUM...... 161
Radu OTA
ANTI-ALCOHOLISM ACTIONS IN ROMANIA DURING THE INTER-WAR
PERIOD ........... 169
Marius ROTAR
“THE EVILS OF ARDENT SPIRITS”: QUAKERS AND TEMPERANCE IN
EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY AUSTRALIA ........................................... 177
Judy STOVE
SPIRITUALITY OF THE ADDICTION. ALCOHOL: A BLESSING OR A
CURSE? ........ 187
Fr. Iulian NEGRU
THE PHENOMENON OF ALCOHOLISM IN ADOLESCENCE. ASPECTS
CONCERNING THE DOMESTIC ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS AND THE
SPECIFIC OF THE ADOLESCENT’S PERSONALITY – THEORETICAL
FACTS...... 201
Anca ROZOREA, Cătălin IONESCU
PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION IN CHRONIC
ALCOHOLIC PATIENS ......... 213
I. MARINCU, L. NEGRUŢIU, I. IACOBICIU, Ioana TODOR, A.M. NEGHINĂ,
M. CORNIANU, R. NEGHINĂ
PSYCHOLOGYCAL MODELS OF ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE.................... 221
Ioana TODOR
“The Romanian People Are Inclined to Get Drunk”. Truncated Images: The
Romanians and Alcohol in Several Foreign Accounts of the 16th Century ..... 231
Octavian Tatar

Conference, Newpaper, Famous Cremated Romanians (XXVIII)

2010-01-27T17:39:00.008+02:00

1. A very important information for all the possible participants at the conference:
If your abstract will be accepted for a presentation at our conference and you will book your flights to Cluj Napoca and Sibiu airport is our task to collect you from these airports and going to Pensiunea Ramet. We used to do this for the foreign participants at the previous edition of our conference. Don't book your flights to Bucharest airport because it is impossible for us to collect you from there and you have to come to Ramet on your own using trains and buses.
2. Sunday the Romanian newspaper Adevarul published an interesting paper on some of the problems in the death system of Romania of nowadays. Here is the link http://www.adevarul.ro/actualitate/social/inmormantare-Bucuresti-biserica-preoti-gropari_0_195580739.html It's about the prohibited prices for a burial in Bucharest.

3. Famous Cremated Romanians

1939

Marin Nedeleanu - General of Romanian Army
1945
Alexandru Bujor - director of Sigurantei service Bucharest,police quaestor

1946

Marietta Horga - actress

Zelly Doncea - wife of the Romanian communism leader Constantin Doncea
Chrisanta M. Romnician - teacher at the famous college "Sf. Sava" from Bucharest
Dumitru G. Marinescu - general director of Mail Phone Telegraph Romania
Ioan Gh. Fortuneanu -member of Romanian Parliament, prefect of Mehedinti county
Ana Barbulescu - wife of Ilie Barbulescu, professor at University of Jassy, died in 1945 - I don't know if he was cremated or not...
Al. Gr. Ionescu - businessman
Boldur Gh. Simeaon - Phd. Economics
Leon Laserson - art collector
Theodor M. Bassarabeanu - lawyer, mayor of Focsani city
Traian Popovici - lawyer and mayor of Cernăuţi during World War II, known for saving 20,000 Jews of Bukovina from deportation, his ashes was buried in the cemetery of his native place (Colacu village in the North of Romania)

1968

Constantin Ticuta Pavelescu - major general of Romanian Army
Grigore Ghidionescu - composer
Paul I. Demetrescu - professor at University of Jassy
Modest Grigorcu - PhD. in economics and justice, he was sentenced some couple of years by jail for Romanian communists
Iorgu Istrate - adviser of Romanian Foreign Minister
1974
Niculita Teodoru -actor
Gheorghe Gogu Nicolescu - the founder of the first Romanian soccer club

Conference,Proceedings 2010 + Famous Cremated Romanians (XXVII)

2010-01-25T16:42:00.006+02:00

1. Conference
Saturday I was to the Pensiunea Ramet for visit it and for a conversation with the owners of this guesthouse. As I wrote in the call for papers of the conference the registration fee is FREE at our conference. This mean all the meals and bed for 4 nights for any participant at our conference.
Please visit http://www.pensiunearamet.ro/Galerie/index.html to see some pictures of it. There is a very spectacular landscape over there due to the area mountains and Ramet monastery. Anyway we will take a dinner at the monastery.
2. Conference Proceedings 2010
These proceedings will be published as a supplement of Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Historica, the journal of History Department of "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia. This is a journal indexed by CEEOL.
3. Famous Cremated Romanians
1939
Victor Costin - professor at the University of Jassy and the promoter of projective geometry studies in Romania
Vasile I. Radu - journalist and writer
1940
Nicolae Portocala - General of Romanian Army
Gheorghe Moruzzi - General of Romanian Army - this is a very interested eccentric cremation case because according to the general Moruzzi's will his ashes was scattered at Ploiesti Hippodrom due to his love for horses racing.

Conference Proceedings 2010

2010-01-22T14:47:00.004+02:00

It's very possible that the conference proceedings 2010 to be published as a supplement of the Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Historica, the journal of History Department of "1 Decembrie 1918" Univerity of Alba Iulia.
I preferred this solution because this journal is indexed in CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library - http://www.ceeol.com/ ) . You can read on-line the abstracts of this journal: (http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/publicationdetails.aspx?publicationid=d336af08-1fad-404b-bae8-9e973073c369 ).
After a meeting of the editorial board of this journal they will give me the answer for my proposal on Monday but they already told me there is not any problem for them to accept it. In my opinion this is one of the best solutions to improve the quality and the scientific level of the conference proceedings 2010.

Call for Papers

2010-01-20T11:56:00.006+02:00

The Call for Papers of Third International Conference on Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe:Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, Alba Iulia (Râmet), Romania, 3 – 5 September 2010 is now indexed on http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=173383 ; http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1ms68a http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/calendar/d/fadw92 and also http://www.ru.nl/ct/english/call_for_papers/more_info/
Please visit these!
You are welcome at our conference!

Call for papers Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe:Refiguring Death Rites, Alba Iulia (Ramet), Romania, 3-5 of September 2010

2010-01-18T16:46:00.004+02:00

Call for Papers: Third International Conference on Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe:Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, Alba Iulia (Râmeţ), Romania, 3 – 5 September 2010.

On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to attend the third edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe, International Conference to be held between 3 – 5 of September 2010, in Alba Iulia (Râmeţ), Romania.

The organizers of this conference are: Romanian Association for Death Studies; The Refiguring Death Rites Research Group, Centre for Thanatology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Ariodante Fabretti Foundation, Turin, Italy; Alba County Council, National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia, Romania; “1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, Romania.

The aim of the conference is to bring together historians, sociologists, psychologists, and physicians from all over the Europe and to attract original papers on the following topics:

1. Cultural history of death
2. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century
3. Bereavement in modern and post-modern society
4. Suicide, euthanasia and the law
5. End of life and palliative care
6. Definitions of death in terms of biomedicine and otherwise
7. Commemorating the dead in space and time
8. Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation
9. Religion and the meaning of death

Scientific Committee:
Eric Venbrux (The Netherlands)
Tony Walter (UK)
Marina Sozzi (Italy)
Peter C. Jupp (UK)
Marius Rotar (Romania)
Victor Tudor Rosu (Romania)

Organizing Committee:
Marius Rotar
Victor Tudor Rosu
Corina Rotar
Liviu Zgarciu
Adriana Teodorescu

Authors should submit an abstract before April 25, 2010 at the following addresses: mrotar2000@yahoo.com; eric.venbrux@gmail.com or marina.sozzi@fastwebnet.it
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
The costs of accommodation will be covered by the organizers, except for the travel expenses that will have to be covered by the participants themselves.

Other information:

The Conference and participants’ accommodations will be at Pensiunea Râmeţ (http://www.pensiunearamet.ro/ ). Râmeţ is a commune located in Alba County, Romania. It has a population of 751. There are 30 km from Alba Iulia to Râmeţ. Also, Râmeţ monastery is one of the most famous Romanian orthodox monasteries. You can see some photos and read about it on http://www.romanian-monasteries.go.ro/alba/ramet.htm
If your abstract proposal will be accepted for a presentation please book your flights to Cluj Napoca airport or Sibiu airport.
For the previous editions of this conference please visit http://romaniandeathcremation.blogspot.com (tag: conference)

Famous Cremated Romanians (XXVI)

2010-01-15T15:11:00.005+02:00

Lucian Grigorescu 's works. He was member of Romanian Academy, died in 1965 and cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest.

1954

Mihai Moraru - member of Great National Assembly (the legislature of Communist Romania)
1956

Ion Calugaru - writer

Petru Niculescu - member of Great National Assembly

1958

Teodor Iordachescu - Minister of Construction
1969

Emanoil Vinea - deputy Minister of Finance

1960

Ion Silvan - architect

1966

Marcel Breslasu - poet, writer, he had Jewish origins

1970

Nicolae Deleanu - historian
Gheorghe Gheorghita - journalist

Mihai Dalea - ambassador in Soviet Union

Proceedings + Famous Cremated Romanians (XXV)

2010-01-15T09:33:00.004+02:00

1. Proceedings of Dying and Death... International Conference, 2009

Yesterday I took from the Accent Publishing House the copies of the Dyind and Death Conference's Proceedings 2009 and next week I will send these to the participants and contributors of it.

2. Famous Cremated Romanians (XXV)

1938

Dimitrie Evolceanu - professor, PhD., literary critic

Titus Ionescu - lawyer, prefect of the Baia county

Emil F. Emilian - founder of Gazeta Sporturilor newpaper, journalist - he died in Czechoslovakia, but he was cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest
Constantin Gh. Ratescu - President of the High of Justice and Cassation of Romania

1967
Barbu Dimitrescu - professor PhD. at the University of Bucharest

Gheorghe Scodihor - engineer, author of full of water development plans in Romania between 1951-1955

Leonte Parvulescu - lieutenant general of Romanian Army

I. Weinberg - PhD., musicologist

George Ionescu Baldovin - judge

Petre Dudcovschi - principal editor of Tineretului Publishing House

Jean Vornic - journalist

Ion Fatulescu - commander aviator

In 1938 following a plane crash occurred Lieutenant Colonel Waka Masakatsu, the military attache of the Embassy of Romania Japanese died. He was cremated at the Cenusa crematorium and urn ashes sent to Japan. You can see above a picture of his cremation ceremony occured at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest.

Conference + Famous Cremated Romanians (XXIV)

2010-01-13T13:56:00.006+02:00

Marcel Chirnoaga 's work: Ressurection of the Dead. According to his will he was cremated in 2008 at the Vitan Barzesti crematorium in Buharest.

1. At the end of this week or latest at the very beginning of the next week the Call for Papers for Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference will be available on this blog. Stay here for it!

2. Famous Cremated Romanians (XXIV)

1918

Lascar Viorel - painter. He died in 1918 being cremated in Germany but latter his ashes was buried at the Eternitatea Cemetery in Piatra Neamt.

1919

Mircea Zorileanu - pilot, one of the pionier of Romanian Aircraft. He died in 1919 at Genoa, Italy being cremated. In 1937 his urn became the foundation of a monument dedicated to his memory in Bucharest

1941

Aetiu Hogas - one of the children of famous romanain writer Calistrat Hogas

1996

Ion Pantazi - journalist. He died at Munich but his urn was buried at Ghencea Cemetery in Bucharest

Besides these persons there was an other very intersting case of the painter George Nasturel: he died very poor at the 96 age in United States. With the help of some orthodox romanian belivers from Los Angeles he was "saved" from cremation being inhumated!

Famous Cremated Romanians (XXIII) - 582!

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One of the Ileana Radulescu's works. She was cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest in 1984

1939
Miti Dumitrescu's team composed by: Miti Dumitrescu (lawyer), Ion Ionescu (student), Ovidiu Isaia (photographer), Ion Moldoveanu (student), Gheorghe Paraschivescu (student), Cezar Popescu (student), Mihai Stanciulescu (worker mechanic), Traian Popescu (student) and Ioan Vasiliu (illustrator). They were members of Iron Guard a far-right movement and political party during the interwar period and having also a ultra-nationalist, fascist and antisemitic character. Miti Dumitrescu's team is responsible by the assassination of Armand Calinescu, prime minister of Romania on 21 of September 1939. For this fact, they were executed and their bodies were cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest. Also in 1939 others Iron Guard's member cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucarest: Vasile Cristescu, Nicoleta Nicolescu and Victor Dragomirescu and others unidentified until today.

1942
Dimitre Motas - general of Romanian Army

1945
Fischer Hogl - killed during the first anti-communist manifestation at Bucharest on 8 November 1945. His body was cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest. It's very important the fact that some dead of this manifestation were cremated, too but their identity remained unknown until today.

1952
Macavei Al Nicolae - employer of Siguranta Statului (the secret police) during the interwar period. He was killed embracing his daughter (4 years old!) by Securitate (the political police of Romanian Communist Party) in 1952. Their bodies were cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest

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Bucura Dumbrava - writer, alpinist
Emilian Cristea - alpinist

I have had until now on my list 582 names of famous cremated romanians!

Famous Cremated Romanians (XXII)

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One of Aurel Acasandrei's works. Acasandrei was cremated in 2006 at Vitan Barzesti Crematorium in Bucharest.

1974

Nicolae Manolescu - General of Romanian Army

1977

Mihai Zapan - professor, PhD., Chemistry
Radu Rusescu - colonel-general of Romanian Army, the president of Red Cross Romania (1958-1961)
Ernest Rossi -consul Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Mihai Cerchez - associate profesor, Mathematics

1984

Theodor Donciu - researcher
Adrian Secosan - painter

1986

Constantin C. Atanasiu - art critic

Aurel Malnasan -deputy foreign Minister, ambassador

Mircea Raianu - professor, writer

George Ceausu - General of Romanian Army

Ioan Teodor - PhD. , engineer, professor at Military Acamedy

1987

Adriana Dimopol - actress

Stelian Streja - journalist, son-in-law of Ilie Pintilie, one of the most important member of Romanian Communist Party durin interwar period

Constantin Duhaneanu - professor, PhD., Polytechnic

Silviu Teodor Dumitrescu - porfessor, PhD. , Polytechnic

Ioan Nistor - associate professor

Ilie Moisescu - major-general of Romanian Army

Gina Solomon - pianist

Tudor Ionescu Dorohoi - researcher, PhD.

Ilie Stefanescu - architect

Constantin Frumuzache - architect

Astra Nandris Calugareanu - Ph.D, doctor, daughter of Dimitrie Calugareanu, member of Romanian Academy; in her case is essential the fact his father and his brother (Gheorghe Calugareanu) were cremated, too. I don't know anything about her mother (Maria Maxim Calugareanu)

Janeta Robu - lecturer

Logo RCA + RADS

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Finally, at the suggestions of some friends and future members I choose the logo of Asociatia Romana de Studii asupra Mortii (Romanian Association for Death Studies) and also of Asociatia Cremationista Amurg (Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association).
Many thanks to Gabriel Ursut, my old friend, for his help with these. Gabriel Ursut is a real very talented painter, his works being focused on orthodox icons and so on! Please visit his website: http://www.ug.webgarden.ro/menu/icoane-ortodoxe

Famous Cremated Romanians (XXI)

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One of the Lazar Ghelman's works

1888
Dora d'Istria (Elena Ghika) - Romanian writer and feminist, painter and alpinist. She died in France and, according to her wish, her ashes was put into the Florence cemetery "Trespiana"

1969
Victor Asquini - architect
Laura Vaian - writer

1971
Rodica Bondi - painter - in 1963 she painted herself poitrait but after this she was blind...
Serban Ignace - arhitect, PhD. associate professor
Alex. Colorian - poet, writer
Mircea Demetrescu, general of Romanian Army, Judge

1976
Mita Alexandru, professor, Romanian Academy for Economical Studies
Lazar Ghelman - painter
Vasile M. Ioachim - professor, Romanian Academy for Economical Studies

1978
Ludmila Farcas - associate professor, Polytechnic of Bucharest

1981
Sorin Aurel Victor Lepa - actor
Emil Grecescu -vice-admiral
Emil Samoila - journalist
Nicolea (Niky) Radulescu - lieutnant general of Romanian Army
Mihai Albu - major General of Romanian Army
Ileana Radulescu - painter
Dumitru Negrea - illustrator
Vasile Rusu Ciobanu - painter, writer

1983
Radu Stoichita - professor of Logic, University of Bucharest
Grigore Stefanescu Griguta - actor
Emil Nicolescu Nic - painter
Ion Maier - professor, Horticulture
George Mirodescu - general of Romanian Army
Eugen Dragulescu - general of Romanian Army, member of the french National Order of Legion of Order
Cornel Teodorini - general of Romanian Army

1982
Constantin Andreoiu - doctor, surgeon

1983
Alexandru Bondoc - editor in chief "Protectia muncii" journal

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Nicolae Radulescu Roegen - member of Romanian Academy

2002
Ion Zamfirescu - professor of Theater, Phd.

2006
Haukler Stefan -fencing coach - died and cremated at Budapest

Famous Cremated Romanians (XX) + Per Olof Ekstrom

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One of the Paul Neagu's work (1938-2004)
Per Olof Ekstrom's masterpiece (1926-1981)
Famous Cremated Romanians (XX)
1946
Mihai Antonescu
Constantin Vasiliu
Gheorghe Alexianu
All of three men was the closest collaborators of Ion Antonescu, Marshall of Romania and also Prime Minister of Romania during the Second War World. They were executed after a trial on 1 June 1946 and their bodies cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest
1977
Constantin Streia - writer
Iosif Drimus - professor, Phd. Chemistry, University of Bucharest
Thedor Munteanu - professor, PhD., Romanian Academy for Economical Studies
Dimitrie (Titel) Antonescu - major general, Romanian Army
1978
Rudner Valter - lecturer, Polytechnic of Bucharest
Nicolae Dionisie Mardan - journalist
1979
Victor Badescu - major general, Romanian Army
Aureliu Visan - major general, Romanian Army
1982
Marin Popescu Urlueri - doctor, professor, PhD.
Mircea Bratucu - doctor professor, PhD.
Ovidiu Dragnea - professor, PhD. , Polytechnic of Bucharest
Maximilian Schulmann - sculptor
Ernest Kahana - doctor
1983
Andrei Ciocoanescu - major general, Romanian Army
Petre Tartia - PhD. in law
1984
Ion Grapini - actor
2004
Paul Neagu - Romanian sculptor, painter, poet, larger-than-life character, journalist. He died at London in 2004 but his ashes was burial at the Timisoara cemetery, according with Paul Neagu's will *many thanks for this information to Iolanda Costide! Please visit http://www.paulneaguhyphen.com/ for reading more about Paul Neagu's works!

2. Per Olof Ekstrom
Per Olof Ekstrom (1926-1981) was a very important swedish writer. His masterpiece is the novel Sommardanser (1949) which became One Summer of Happiness movie (1951), the movie winner of Golden Berlin Bear, Berlin International Film Festival (1952). After a long illness Per Olof Ekstrom died in Romania in 1981, being cremated at Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest.
The romanian poet Florenta Albu described this moment in his diary, entitled Zidul Martor. Also, Florenta Albu was cremated latter, but all the time when I'm thinking to Florenta Albu I'm so very impressed by one of the title of her book, namely Shade Burnt. This title was like a premonition of her own's cremation!

PS. I'm so glad for my list of Famous Cremated Romanians. I hardly worked on this always having into my mind some famous words of soviet writer Maxim Gorky: "There are only two forms of life: decay and combustion. Cowards one will choose the first one, brave and generous people on the second! "

Logo RCA + RADS

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In this morning Gabriel Ursut, my friend sent to me his proposals for logo of Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association and Romanian Association for Death Studies (Asociatia Romana pentru Studii asupra Mortii). We will choice two of these today! Many thanks, my friend!
If you are interested in Gabriel Ursut's works please visit his website: http://www.ug.webgarden.ro/menu/icoane-ortodoxe

Crematoria and News

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Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest, but this crematorium is not functional now.

Durham Crematorium, UK, I visited this crematorium during DDD9 *a picture taken by my friend Meike Heeseels

This is a picture taken inside of a crematorium from Netherlands *also a picture thanks to my friend Mieke Heessels

2. The third edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference, will be organized by Romanian Association for Death Studies in collaboration with Refiguring Death Rites, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Prof. Erik Venbrux accepted my proposal for this. I hope Marina Sozzi from Fondazione Fabretti, Turin, Italy will be one of the co-organizers of this conference. Very soon the call for papers for this conference will be available on this blog.

3. Also, very soon the logo of Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association and Romanian Association for Death Studies will be available thanks to my old friend Gabriel Ursut. Please visit his website: http://www.ug.webgarden.ro/menu/icoane-ortodoxe

Proceedings of Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference, first edition, Alba Iulia, Romania, 5-7 September 2008 - Book

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Excerpt

Proceedings of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference, first edition, Alba Iulia, Romania, 5-7 of September 2008, Marius Rotar, Marina Sozzi (eds), Cluj Napoca: Accent, 2009, 298 pages - ISBN 978-973-8951-80-0

Dialogue and friendship

"Death has always been just a joke to me; life is my weakness"
Anthony Quinn (1915-2001)

One of the most lucid protests against death as an event and personal reality is found in the autobiographical novel, A Man Finished written by Giovanni Papini and published in 1913, at the age of 31. Entitled as simple as Death, the essay gives a very suggestive description of the fundamental anxieties of the modern society and namely the fear of death. Death, a subject which invites reflection and analysis par excellence, through the many mutations it produces, is a particular subject matter, often wrongfully given a secondary place among the scientific research interests. For this reason in particular, death cannot be considered the prerogative of just one science, although some may take a special interest in the topic. We cannot describe, understand, explain or come up with solutions to the reality of death without the joint effort of History, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Medicine or Literature. Thus, the idea on which this conference was based, and which we would like to become a regular event, was that of multidisciplinary and of an open dialogue between researchers who are fond of this subject and who come from various academic communities. At a first glance, a conference organized in Romania exclusively on dying and death does not seem to be such a special thing, if we are to consider the world developments on the subject. However, the conference Dying and Death in 18-21 Centuries Europe was the first scientific event of this kind ever organised in Romania. The idea of this event was born some time ago, through scientific and friendship relations. The conference was organized by the Iuliu Maniu Centre for Historical and Political Studies of ‘1 Decembrie 1918’ University of Alba Iulia, the National Unification Museum, Alba Iulia, Romania, Ariodante Fabretti Foundation, Turin, Italy and with the support of the Alba County Council, the Local Council of Alba Iulia and Alba Iulia County Direction for Culture, Cults and National Heritage. Other partners of this event were the Historical Anthropology Seminary of ‘Babeș Bolylai’ University of Cluj Napoca, the Alba County Hospital and One TV. The conference was attended by experts of world fame in the field, coming from Italy, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, the Republic of Moldova, France and Romania. Also, the Romanian National Research Council, CNCSIS, granted some of the funding through the type AT project, code 47 "Atitudini în faţa morţii; perspective asupra vieţii în România secolelor XIX-XXI” (Attitudes in front of Death; Perspectives on Life in Romania from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries), project manager: Marius Rotar. There 10 were positive echoes to this event. The Romanian local and national media spoke of it, proving that the scope of the conference was achieved. This is the conference proceedings, containing most of the papers presented at the conference. Unfortunately, due to objective reasons, the papers by Glennys Howarth, Enrico Cazzaniga, Liana Don, and Nicolae Mihai were not included here. There were six conference sessions as the present volume reveals. Each of these papers was intended to be an original contribution to the topic of the conference, highlighting sensitive subjects, which called forth debates and polemics. Therefore, sensitive subjects for the Romanian society were considered, related to death, such as euthanasia, suicide and especially crematories. From this point of view, we believe that our intentions have been achieved and that the second edition of this conference, planned for the end of September 2009, will further the discussions and enlarge upon the subject. The members of the organizing team were Marina Sozzi, Marius Rotar, Corina
Rotar, Luca Prestia, Victor Tudor Roşu, Paul Nanu, Liviu Zgârciu and Rareş Diodiu. It is said that death, as an event, equalizes that which life differentiates and from this perspective, our intent is to continue and strengthen the dialogue and friendship that connect us. Likewise, it is said that poetry, as a situation, begins where it ends on paper. Thus, the image of death as reality offered by the Romanian poet Horia Furtună can be one of the symbols of this conference:

«Death is a slowly moving carriage,
Its wood creaks, its bones crack,
Its wheels grind,
It comes for all of us, one at a time!
For many years it has been passing by,
On dusty and stony roads
And it leaves slowly through mud,
on a causeway
To another realm.
At the sound of its axles, its bones
Doors are closed, and houses and gates
Children stop flying their kites
The sky erases its rainbows
The laundry is gathered,
Singing and playing stop
Mothers and grandmothers cry
The death carriage passes by again today
Dogs stop barking behind the gates
On the quiet street
Grow fears, frost and cowbane
Sunflowers bend to the ground
Doves are gone with the wind
The carriage with no horses, no driver, no whip
Comes here
It has arrived on our street
There is no face at the window
There is no creak
It stopped
So be it!
The much awaited ghost has arrived
My heart has stopped beating
I’m waiting!
At last
My light has set
I will also leave
From God’s will
On the road that my mother and father
have taken
…
I am ready!!!»

Marius Rotar, Marina Sozzi
Alba Iulia - Turin, 2 March 2009

A Happy New Year!

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When I started this blog I strongly refused to make it as my diary . After 8 months of Romanian. Death. Cremation I'm proud by what became this blog: an easier way to keep in touch of death scholars in worldwide. This blog didn't represent just my contribution but a wider one of all the people who believed and sustained this project! Thank you very much! A Happy New Year for all of you!
I don't know if this picture is the proper one in order to express these lines from above but this photo is a very interesting one: one of the biggest problems of death system in Romania of nowadays is the crisis of burial places in urban area so this photo, taken in the Alba Iulia's cemetery, show us the real dimensions of this situation - a burial place between corns! Hallelujah!

One moment - three pictures at the Ceremony of Re-burial of Unknown Soldier at Bucharest (1923)

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In 1923 it was organized a big ceremony for the eternal honor of the fallen Romanian soldier during the First World War. In the presence of the royal family of Romania the burial ceremony took place at Bucharest on 17th May 1923 and on the slab of the crypt were written: "Here lies at rest happily unto the Lord the Unknown Soldier, extinguished from life in the sacrifice for the unity of the Romanian people. On his bones lies the land of united Romania. 1916-1919".

Books

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Finnaly, the website of Accent Publishing House is available on http://www.accentpublisher.ro/
Here You can find and buy on-line the Dying and Death in 18th-21srt century Europe, International Conference's proceedings 2008-2009; my book Moartea in Transilvania in secolul al XIX-lea (Death in 19th century Transylvania), second volume, 2007 - http://www.accentpublisher.ro/site/autori/?a=view:25# ; Victor Tudor Rosu's book, August Treboniu Laurian (1810-1891). Discurs istoric romantic - http://www.accentpublisher.ro/site/autori/?a=view:37 - and also Corina Rotar's books on evolutionary computation - http://www.accentpublisher.ro/site/autori/?a=view:27

One moment - four pictures at the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1965)

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4 photos from Scanteia- the official newspaper of Romanian Communist Party at the death and burial of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901-1965), communist leader of Romania (1948-1965), being succeeded by Nicolae Ceausescu.

One moment - two pictures at the death of Joseph Stalin

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There are two pictures from Scanteia *Sparkle, the official newspaper of Romanian Communist Party at the death of Joseph Stalin (1878-1953).

Romanian Death Association for Death Studies

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This is a provisional list of the persons interested to become founders of Romanian Association for Death Studies:

1. Marius Rotar, historian, PhD., "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia
2. Tudor Victor Rosu, historian, PhD., National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia
3. Corina Rotar, computer scientist, PhD., "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia
4. Cosmin Bodrean, manager, "Sf. Gheorghe" Cemetery, Hunedoara
5. Cristina Bogdan, historian, PhD., University of Bucharest
6. Silvia Marin, historian, PhD., University of Bucharest
7. Nicu Mihai, historian, PhD., "C.S. Plopsor" Romanian Academy Institute, Craiova
8. Mihai Burlacu, sociologist, PhD. student, "Transylvania" University of Brasov
9. Adriana Teodorescu, PhD. student, "Babes-Boylai" University of Cluj Napoca
10. Corneliu Simut, theologian, PhD., "Emmanuel" University of Oradea
11. Florina Codreanu, PhD. student, "Babes-Boylai" University of Cluj Napoca
12. Gabriela Boiangiu, PhD., "C.S. Plopsor" Romanian Academy Institute, Craiova
13. Andi Mihalache, historian, Ph.D, "A.D. Xenopol", Romanian Academy Institute, Jassy
14. Carmen Alexandrache, Ph.D student, University of Galati

If you want to be between founders of this unique Association please send me a mail and a short CV at mrotar2000@yahoo.com
The main aim of Romanian Association for Death Studies is to develop and to improve the quality of death studies in our country. Also, we try to keep alive the flames of Dying and Death in 18th-21srt Century Europe, International Conference! This is the only conference on death in Romania and also in this part of Europe! For all of these and other 1000 unspoken reasons I do need you by our side!