Death conference Stockholm 2015

HERITAGE OF DEATH
Program
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
The conference venue is building Geovetenskapens hus, house Y, Stockholm University (rooms vary)
8:15-9:00
Registration. Coffee, breads, etc.
8:50-9:00
[Speakers are shown computer/projection equipment]
SESSION 1
DARK TOURISM
(Room William-Olssonsalen)
9:00-9:15
Conference Welcome Remarks from Mattias Frihammar, Helaine Silverman and
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Karin Helander
9:15-9:30
Banaszkiewicz, Magdalena. “Lenin’s tomb”
9:30-9:45 Biran, Avital and Dorina, Maria Buda. “Pleasure of touring death”
9:45-10:00
Silverman, Helaine. “Death of a death museum”
10:00-10:15
Mellor, Lee. “Murder tourism”
10:15-10:30
Mowatt, Rasul. “Heritage of lynching in America”
10:30-10:45
Poade, Donna. “Dark tourism as business”
10:45-11:00
Dahlin, Johanna. “No one is Forgotten, Nothing is Forgotten”
11:00-11:30
COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 2A
MEMORIALS, EPIC DEATH AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS
(Room William-Olssonsalen)
11:30-11:45
Sloane, David. “Death everywhere”
11:45-12:00 Krohn Andersson, Fredrik. “Heritagization of nuclear power”
12:00-12:15
Friedrich, Mona. “Genocide memorials in Rwanda”
12:15-12:30
Lebel, Udi. “Terror victims, national pantheon, death stratification”
12:30-12:45
Vanraepenbusch, Karla. “German WWI monuments in Belgian cemeteries”
12:45-1:00
Caldas, Roberta. “Victims of the Berlin Wall”
SESSION 2B
NEW PERSPECTIVES
(Room Y10)
11:30-11:45
Thomas, Helen. ”Islands of death and the sea as cemetery”
11:45-12:00 Reimers, Eva. “Living (and the) dead cemeteries as affective spaces”
12:00-12:15
Anthony, Sian. “Unearthing uncomfortable heritage”
12:15-12:30
Sim, Jack and Maclean, Hilda. “Sharing the cemetery tourism landscape”
12:30-12:45
Mornvik, Terese. “Le Mort: everyday associations and mortality”
12:45-1:00
Wang, Yi-Wen and Pendlebury, John. “1933 Building, Shanghai: Killing, Consumption”
1:00-2:30
LUNCH
At restaurant “Lantis” in Allhuset, in campus area (see map in conference bag). Use the meal ticket in the conference bag. SESSION 3A
MEMORIALS, EPIC DEATH AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS continued 2:30 -2:45
Comer, Margaret. “Heritage of repression in Russia since 1991”
2:45-3:00
Huang, Shu-Mei. “Decommissioned prisons in East Asia”
3:00-3:15
Mason, David. “At the shrine of the fallen - heritage values and the ‘Digger’ legend in Australia”
3:15-3:30
Whitaker, Anne-Maree. “Australia’s 1798 Memorial”
SESSION 3B
RELIGION AND EMOTION
(Room Y10)
2:30 -2:45
Pantazatos, Andreas. ”Heritage objects and death”
2:45-3:00
Wangefelt, Helena. “Instrumentalising death: Christian relics used, reused”
3:00-3:15
Sinha, Amita. “Death as spectacle”
3:15-3:30
Wahlstrom, Maria. “Aesthetics and ethics of mourning in literary works”
3:30-3:45
COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 4
CEMETERIES
(Room William-Olssonsalen)
3:45-4:00
Basmaji, Marwan. “Vertical park cemetery in Jerusalem”
4:00-4:15
Doyle, Siobhán. “Commodification of the cemetery”
4:15-4:30
Rugg, Julie. “Locating the deadly in the Victorian cemetery”
4:30-5:00
COFFEE BREAK
5:00-6:00 KEYNOTE TALK BY MIKE ROBINSON
6:00-7:00 Transfer to City Hall
7:00 p.m. RECEPTION AT CITY HALL
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
(All sessions are in Room William-Olssonsalen)
8:30-9:00
Coffee, bread, etc.
SESSION 4 (continued from Thursday)
CEMETERIES
9:00-9:15
Baptist, Karen Wilson. “Legacy of Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland”
9:15-9:30
Tuulik, Tiina. “Estonian historical cemeteries and cemetery culture change”
9:30-9:45
Silvén, Eva. “Decorated graves: private or public space”
9:45-10:00
Nolin, Catharina. “Framing children’s sections in cemeteries”
10:00-10:15
10:15-10:30
SESSION BREAK
Assimakópulos, Anastasia. “Mapuche cemeteries as national monuments, Chile”
10:30-10:45 Leach, Sara Amy. “Memorialization in U.S. cemeteries: Civil War origins”
10:45-11:00
Petersson, Anna. “Urban cemetery animals”
11:00-11:15
Rothstein, Karla. “New urban mortuary practices”
11:15-11:30
COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 5
SOUNDS OF DEATH
11:30-11:45
Buchanan, Donna. “Bulgaria’s Armenian diaspora: commemorative heritage”
11:45-12:00
Pitic, Badema. ”Srebrencia genocide: musical narratives of death”
SESSION 6
ROYAL DEATH
12:00-12:15
Engstrom, Alexander. “Nobility’s funerary culture in 17th century Sweden”
12:15-12:30
Rodrigues, Nuno. “Monastery of Santa Maria de Belém: King or Kings?”
12:30-12:45
Young, Craig. “The reburial of King Richard III and interurban politics”
12:45 Transfer to Skogskyrkogården
1:30-2:30 Lunch at Visitor Center, Skogskyrkogården
2:30-4:30 Guided tour at Skogskyrkogården
Transfer back to Stockholm University
7:30 Dinner at Stockholm University
At Stockholms universitets fakultetsklubb (Manne Siegbahnvillan, Frescativägen 22.
(Two minute walk from subway station Universitetet: take left, walk towards brick building.)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
11:00-1:00
Special Event at the Royal Palace: Theatre of Death at Livrustkammaren. Guided tour and talk by Ann Grönhammar.
Thanks to
Royal Armoury at the Royal Palace
Woodland Cemetery and Stockholm City Museum
Town Hall and City of Stockholm
Special thanks to Vetenskapsrådet/Swedish Research Council

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