25th Cemeteries Colloquium
This in-person, day event comprises an informal meeting of academic researchers in all disciplines with an interest in burial places.
Date and time
Location
King's Manor - University of York
Exhibition Square York YO1 7EP United KingdomRefund Policy
About this event
- 8 hours 30 minutes
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