Deadline: 10 June 2011
Open to: historians, sociologists, psychologists, and physicians interested in the topic
Dates and Venue: 29 September – 1 October 2011, Alba Iulia, Romania
Costs: a 25 EUR publication fee, costs of accommodation and meals will be covered by the organizers
The fourth edition of
Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, International Conference
29th September – 1st October 2011,
at Alba Iulia, Romania.
The main aim of this conference is to bring together historians, sociologists, psychologists, and physicians from all over the Europe and to attract original papers on the following topics:
1. Cultural history of death;
2. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century;
3. Bereavement in modern and post-modern society;
4. Suicide, euthanasia and the law;
5. End of life and palliative care;
6. Definitions of death in terms of biomedicine and otherwise;
7. Commemorating the dead in space and time;
8. Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation;
9. Religion and the meaning of death
Application Process
Authors should submit an abstract before June 10, 2011 at the following addresses:
mrotar2000@yahoo.com ; adriana.teodorescu@gmail.com or marina.sozzi@fastwebnet.it
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
These proceedings are edited as supplement of Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series
Historica, the journal of History Department of “1 Decembrie 1918″ University of Alba
Iulia, Romania. These proceedings are in indexed in CEEOL – (Central and Eastern European Online Library) (international Database).
The costs of accommodation will be covered by the organizers (meals, hotel, accommodation, official reception), except for the travel expenses that will have to be
covered by the participants themselves.
If your paper will be accepted for publication in the conference proceedings, there is
a publication fee: 25 EUR per each accepted paper.