ABDD04

ABDD04 information

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

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!

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

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

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...

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

Instructions for authors + ANCS

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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