25th Cemeteries Colloquium

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 Ann Tandy-Treiber

Bodying forth the enslaved in the heart of Manhattan: the African Burial Ground National Monument

9:30-10:00 David Ocón and Young Wei Ping

Placemaking heritage sites in the margins: re-thinking urban burial spaces in Singapore

10:00-10:30 Carol Brindley, Ross Clow, Yota Dimitriadi

Performativity and symbolic action: community engagement in two Victorian garden cemeteries in Berkshire

10:30-11:00 Ágnes Sallay

Digital footprint of European significant cemeteries in the context of their multifunctional use

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Session 2: Politics and marginality

11:30-12:00 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

12:00-12:30 Philippa Chun

The politics of memorialization: remembering the dead in nineteenth-century New York cemeteries

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Session 3: Material culture and conservation challenges

13:30-14:00 Joeri Mertens

Immortelles, a forgotten funerary flower of the 19th century

14:00-14:30 Roger Bowdler

The Age of Bronze: British cemetery monuments of bronze c.1850-1920

14:30-15:00 Eglė Bazaraitė

Programming burial landscapes: regulations and practices

15:00-15:30 Ian Dungavell

Seeing the wood for the trees: Grave renewal and memorial management in a historic cemetery

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