Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica

Issue Special Issue 2011 | Vol. 15

Dying and Death

1 January 2014

Editor: Marius Rotar, Corina Rotar, Adriana Teodorescu

Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe. International Conference, Fourth Edition, Alba Iulia, Romania, 29th September - October 1st, 2011

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Anthropology and Ethnology
1. Finnish funerals customs in manners guide
Keywords: funeral, Finland, modernization

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2. Death – a factor of social communication in the premodern Romanian countries
Keywords: death, ritual, Romania, foreigners’ writings.

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3. The meaning of death in Albanian ballad
Keywords: ballad, walled up wife, death, brother, variants.

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4. Rroma community`s attitude facing death
Keywords: Rroma community, death perception, funeral practice, impurity, fear of dead.

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5. La symbolique funéraire et l'identité culturelle dans la région multiethnique. Les comtés de Mureş et Harghita
Keywords: coutumes funéraires, architecture funéraire, piliers de chevet, roumains, hongrois, sicules, saxons.

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6. Rituals of death, food and life in Greece
Keywords: Greece, modern, ancient, Death-cult, death-rituals, Communication, Gifts, Food.

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7. Lithuanian funeral rites: from tradition to modernity
Keywords: Lithuanian funeral rites, tradition, modernity.

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Cultural history of death
1. Ancient Egyptian burial patterns being repeated – mannerism or specific meaning of death
Keywords: Egypt, culture of death, mannerism, mummification.

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2. Thoughts on dying and suicide at the turn of the 18th-19th century: a Transylvanian girl of Capulet-destiny
Keywords: death, suicide, Transylvania, attitudes.

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3. Commemorating death in European artistic music
Keywords: music, death, commemoration, Europe, love

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4. Categories of death in Romanian rural world of the late 19th – early 20th century after parish registers in several villages from Mureş County
Keywords: history of death, cultural death, church records, burial customs, folk mentality.

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5. Death and dying as war experience in the war-diary Doberdo. The book of a Honvéd officer from the Isonzo front of István Szabó
Keywords: expectation of death, dying of heroes, experience of killing, cemeteries, funerals, mourning.

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6. V. I. Lenin - history of a political relic
Keywords: V. I. Lenin, political relic, burial issue, mausoleum, Soviet symbol.

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7. Medicalisation of death at the turn of the 18th to 19th centuries. The moment of death, apparent death and attitudes towards the dead from the point of view of the history of medicine
Keywords: European governments, Apparent death, Medicalisation of death, Reforms of funeral services, The Enlightenment.

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8. Death and the Boogeyman
Keywords: death, children, fear, boogeyman.

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9. Lay saints, remains, relics and mourning in Venice after Italian Resurgence (June 1867)
Keywords: Devotion, Martyrs, Memory, Mourning, Relics, Remains.

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10. The clericalisation of protestant funeral ceremonies in 19th century Germany: from silent burials to mourning acts,
Keywords: Funerals, Protestantism, clericalisation, church politics, Germany, 19th century.

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11. Dying and death at war – concentration zone: the place of (special) dying
Keywords: death, dying, camp, crematorium, Boris Pahor.

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12. Modern state and death matters: issues on Romanian legislation concerning burials and burial grounds in the 19th and at the end of the 20th century
Keywords: Transylvania, Old Kingdom, Modern Age, legislation, corps, burial, cemeteries.

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13. German widows of the First World War: images of rage and repression
Keywords: War widows, bereavement, repression, images, Kirchner, Kollwitz.

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14. Places for a cult of memories in the Italian post-secular city
Keywords: secularization, Italy, Catholic Church, architecture, crematoria.

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15. European echoes upon Romanian cremationist movement
Keywords: cremation, Romania, influences, Europe.

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Literature and philosophy
1. The eternal time in fairytales. (The dissemination of the Land of Youth theme in various cultures)
Keywords: Thanatos, Land of Youth, forgotten time, Youth Everlasting and Life without End, bildungsroman.

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2. Death, suicide and mourning in Herta Müller’s Herztier. Aktionsgruppe Banat and the Securitate
Keywords: Herta Müller, death, suicide, mourning, Aktiongruppe Banat.

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3. Death and work or: death by work? A classical case study: Marx
Keywords: Karl Marx, work, death, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, 19th century.

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4. “I gave you wings but i couldn’t help the winds”. Child’s suicide experienced by parents in 1984-2010, Finland
Keywords: suicide, death, children, parents, Finland.

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New Ritualisation of Death
1. Audiences of death – between real and virtual funeral wakes
Keywords: virtual wakes, virtuality, funeral, dealing with death, grief processing

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2. Religion, nation, media. National mourning in Poland after 1989
Keywords: national mourning, national disaster, liminality and communitas, the media coverage.

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3. Disease as the process of dying. Cultural images of AIDS at the turn of XXth and XXIst century
Keywords: AIDS, HIV, terminal disease, social campaign, documentary, TV-series.

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4. Mourir en tant que migrant : thanatopolitiques et thanatopratiques de l’Italie contemporaine
Keywords: death, immigrants, thanatopolitics, Italy.

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5. Symbolic immortality through children. A thanatological perspective
Keywords: Death, Immortality, Children, Paradox, Construction, Mythology.

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6. Digital re-construction and durable biography
Keywords: death, dying, digital reconstruction, biography.

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7. The observation of the unobservable: ideas of afterlife in a sociological perspective
Keywords: Afterlife, death and dying, sociology of religion, worldviews, qualitative research, group discussions, Niklas Luhmann.

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End of Life
1. The term of life and the term of death as a two fundamental bioethical and thantological values
Keywords: bioethics, thanatology, life, death, ethics of the holliness of life, ethics of quality of life.

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2. End of life and palliative care
Keywords: palliative care, death, patient, quality of life, dying.

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3. Queering death: dying and mourning in the Romanian gay community
Keywords: death, gay community, mourning, dying.

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4. Suicide and euthanasia under Turkish law
Keywords: Suicide, forced suicide, honour killing, euthanasia, law, Turkish law, Turkish Penal Code.

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5. The discourse of biopower against disturbances of the boundary between life and death
Keywords: euthanasia, biopower, biopolitics, death, Keywords boundary

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