Organized by the working group transmortality X of the Museum for Sepulchral Culture and the University of Hamburg.
The topics of dying, death and mourning have increasingly become the focus of interdisciplinary research in recent years. Disciplines such as archaeology, ethnology or art history have always been concerned with graves and burial places. In the meantime, however, very different disciplines are interested in the change of mourning and burial culture, such as sociology, psychology, but also history and health sciences, cultural studies, gender studies and media studies.
Under the title transmortality, a workshop was held for the first time on February 6, 2010 at the University of Hamburg in order to link the many-sided and multi-layered research approaches to the topic of dying, death and mourning. The events transmortality II to IX have taken place in an expanded framework as a conference and workshop at the Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel.
In 2017, there was an international conference in Luxembourg with Transmortality International, organized by the Research Project: Material Culture and Spaces of Remembrance. The transmortale is open to young scholars from the field of early career research (students in the final phase or PhD students), but also to postdocs and interested researchers.
Here the programs and proceedings of previous transmortale events can be viewed. A selection of contributions was published in: Moritz Buchner und Anna-Maria Götz (Hrsg.): transmortale. Sterben, Tod und Trauer in der neueren Forschung (Kasseler Studien zur Sepulkralkultur Band 22), Köln: Böhlau, 2016. The volume brings together a selection of transmortale-contributions from different disciplines such as history, art history, ethnology, cultural anthropology, sociology, theatre, film and music studies as well as cultural and media studies.
Death is known to be a problem of the living. Thus, all scientific fields of research that deal with the (co)existence of human beings also have points of contact with dying and death, farewells and commemoration, finitude and attempts to cope with the inevitable.
2010 was the beginning of the transmortality, which has been held annually since then. This year, the first day of the event is thematically open to young scientists who are in the final stages of writing a qualification thesis, but also to postdocs and other interested researchers. The goal is an interdisciplinary discussion that brings together empirical as well as theoretical approaches and opens up an intensive exchange.
On the second day – thematically in line with the upcoming special exhibition – the specific topic of "comfort" will be examined from a transdisciplinary perspective by junior and by experienced scholars. Consolation is a ritualized form of interaction that is closely connected to death and mourning contexts, but also becomes virulent in other experiences of disappointment or loss. Consolation does not change existing problems, but the corresponding social gestures symbolize that the suffered cut does not have to be coped with alone. Comforting invites reflection on what has happened without numbing the pain of loss.
Each presentation will be followed by a discussion (not at the poster sessions)
11:00 – 11:15 am
Welcome
11:15 – 11:45 am
Daniel Felscher (Frankfurt (Oder))
„Und in der Stille, da wird es so richtig intensiv.“ Reduktion und Intensivierung in Praktiken der Stille am Beispiel ehrenamtlicher Hospizarbeit und Trauerbegleitung
11:45 am – 12:15 pm
Maximiliane Nietzschmann (Heidelberg)
Umgang mit Toten und Sterbenden in Zeiten von Corona (März – April 2020) in der medialen Vermittlung
12:15 – 12:45 pm
Break
12:45 – 13:15 pm
Lena Stange (Oldenburg)
„Also, wenn ich dann tot bin …“ Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Befragung zu gesundheitlicher Vorausplanung für das Lebensende
13:15 – 13:45 pm
Tanja Kilzer (Köln)
Orte des Trostes und der Heilung. Trosträume und tröstende Elemente als essenzieller Bestandteil moderner Gedenkstättengestaltungen und der modernen Gedenkkultur
13:45 – 14:30 pm
Lunch
14:30 – 15:00 pm
Poster-Session
Fanny Berghof / Nina Gurol / Nele Legeland / Clara Schuppan (Regensburg)
Inwieweit sind gesellschaftlich institutionalisierte Sterbe- und Trauerangebote für obdachlose Menschen sinnvoll?
Lena Magdeburg (Paderborn)
Sterben und Tod in den Vorstellungen von Grundschulkindern. Eine qualitative Studie im Kontext von Sachunterrichtsdidaktik
Leonie Schmickler (Passau)
Sterbefasten – Problem oder Lösung? Soziologische Betrachtung eines Sterbehilfediskurses
15:00 – 15:30 pm
Lester Gerdung (Heidelberg)
Die Verschiebung individueller Auseinandersetzung mit Tod und Sterben auf mediale Darstellungen anstelle von gesellschaftlicher Verdrängung
15:30 – 16:00 pm
David Lillington (London, Großbritannien)
Das Thema der Wehklage in der Videokunst von Elisabeth Price
16:00 – 16:30 pm
Break
16:30 – 17:00 pm
Alexander Querengässer (Halle (Saale))
Vom Massengrab zum Nationaldenkmal. Militärische Begräbniskultur vom Mittelalter bis in die Moderne
17:00 – 17:30 pm
Esther Preis (Berlin)
Trost spenden und Trauer normieren. Begräbnisgedichte in der Frühen Neuzeit (1500 – 1700)
18:30 pm
End
Each presentation will be followed by a discussion (not at the poster sessions)
10:00 – 10:30 am
Katarzyna Woniak (Halle (Saale))
Trost und Todesangst. Emotionen in Polen unter deutscher Besatzung 1939 – 1945
10:30 – 11:00 am
Nina Rabuza (Innsbruck)
Sterben im Kapitalismus. Über Tod und Trauer in der kritischen Gesellschaftstheorie Theodor W. Adornos
11:00 – 11:30 am
Break
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Matthias Meitzler (Tübingen)
Postmortale Fortexistenz als Trost? Räumliche und körperliche Dimensionen der Verlustbewältigung
12:00 – 12:30 pm
Thorsten Benkel (Passau)
Am Ende. Formen der Beziehungsauflösung
12:30 – 13:30 pm
Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 pm
Melanie Pierburg (Hildesheim)
Die Reflexivität des Leidens. Soziologische Perspektiven auf den Trost
14:00 – 14:30 pm
Ekkehard Coenen (Weimar)
„Es gibt irgendwie so ’ne Trosttruppe.“ Zum Mit-, Für- und Gegeneinander der Gefühlsarbeit im Bestattungswesen
14:30 – 15:00 pm
Break
15:00 – 15:30 pm
Ursula Engelfried-Rave (Koblenz)
Trost suchen und Trost spenden. Eine soziologische Betrachtung des Tröstens
15:30 – 16:00 pm
Miriam Sitter (Hanover)
Trösten oder Vertrösten? Eine zu leistende Differenzierung durch Empathie
17:00 pm
End
Regular: 30,- €
Reduced: 12,50 € (students)
If booked in advance by 20 March 2023, catering (lunch snack, cake, fruit, drinks) can be provided for 27,- € per person per day. Without this, self-catering is required.
If you are unable to attend after registration, please notify us 7 days prior to the start of the conference. Otherwise we will have to charge you the full fee. You have the possibility to name a substitute participant free of charge at any time.
Study Group Cemetery and Monument (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal e. V. )
Central Institute and Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel
Dr. Dirk Pörschmann, Dr. Dagmar Kuhle
University of Hamburg
Institute for Empirical Cultural Sciences
Prof. Dr. Norbert Fischer
Cooperation partners in Berlin
Dr. Moritz Buchner, Stephan Hadraschek M.A., Jan S. Möllers M.A.
Working Group Thanatology
Dr. Thorsten Benkel, Passau
Dr. Ekkehard Coenen, Weimar
Prof. Dr. Ursula Engelfried-Rave, Koblenz
Dr. Matthias Hoffmann, Saarbrücken
Matthias Meitzler M.A., Tübingen
Dr. Melanie Pierburg, Hildesheim
Leonie Schmickler B.A., Passau
Dr. Miriam Sitter, Hanover
Telefon: 0 561 / 918 93 0
Fax: 0 561 / 918 93 10
Weinbergstraße 25-27
34117 Kassel
in German language
transmortale XI, 25. – 26. März 2022, Kassel/ digital
transmortality X, 26. – 27. March 2021, Kassel/ digital
transmortality IX, 15. – 16. March 2019, Kassel
transmortality VIII, 10. March 2018, Kassel
transmortality 2017, Luxembourg
transmortality VI, 7. March 2015, Kassel
transmortality V, 15. March 2014, Kassel
transmortality IV, 23. February 2013, Kassel
transmortality III, 10. – 11. March 2012, Kassel
in German language
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal e.V.
Zentralinstitut für Sepulkralkultur
Museum für Sepulkralkultur
Weinbergstraße 25–27
D-34117 Kassel | Germany
Tel. +49 (0)561 918 93-0
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