About this Event
This international day conference brings together academics from all over the world with an interest in the places of burial. The conference is entirely interdisciplinary, and this year's programme offers papers on the subjects of funerary heritage and community engagement, material culture and conservation challenges, politics and marginality, and mass burial in extreme situations. This is a friendly, highly supportive event for new researchers in this area.
The conference fee includes full refreshments throughout the day.
This year celebrates the 25th annual gathering, which will be marked by a conference meal on Thursday 24th May. The option to attend the meal will be offered on the booking page.
Programme:
8:45-9:00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
Session One: Funerary heritage and community engagement
9:00-9:30 David Ocón and Young Wei Ping
Placemaking heritage sites in the margins: re-thinking urban burial spaces in Singapore
9:30-10:00 Carol Brindley, Ross Clow, Yota Dimitriadi
Performativity and symbolic action: community engagement in two Victorian garden cemeteries in Berkshire
10:00-10:30 Ágnes Sallay
Digital footprint of European significant cemeteries in the context of their multifunctional use
10:30-11:00 Corinne Elicona
For all the living and the dead: harmonizing activation and solace in cemeteries
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
Session 2: Material culture and conservation challenges
11:15-11:45 Joeri Mertens
Immortelles, a forgotten funerary flower of the 19th century
11:45-12:15 Roger Bowdler
The Age of Bronze: British cemetery monuments of bronze c.1850-1920
12:15-12:45 Eglė Bazaraitė
Programming burial landscapes: regulations and practices
12:45-13:15 Ian Dungavell
Seeing the wood for the trees: Grave renewal and memorial management in a historic cemetery
13:15-14:00 Lunch
Session 3: Politics and marginality
14:00-14:30 Lo Ka Nok (Carlos)
To rent or to sell?: the transformation of cross-border funeral in Macau and cemetery property transactions of China in the mid-20th century
14:30-15:00 Philippa Chun
The politics of memorialization: remembering the dead in nineteenth-century New York cemeteries
15:00-15:30 Sandeep Viswanath
Hindu burial grounds of Bangalore
15:30-15:45 Tea break
Session 4: Mass burial in extreme situations
15:45-16:15 Tim Grady
Exhuming the enemy, losing the past: Britain and the German war dead
16:15-16:45 Brice Molo
Necropolitics and legitimization of mourning: analysis of the processes of recognizing and patrimonializing victims of disasters in Cameroon
16:45-17:15 Sora Duly
From icy waters to the frozen ground: the conflicting case of temporary mass burials in 2011 post-tsunami Japan
17:15 CONCLUDING COMMENTS AND CLOSE
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
King's Manor - University of York, Exhibition Square, York, United Kingdom