Funerals in the North of Europe – similarities and differences

Keynote lectures:

Place: Åbo Akademi University, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2 (aud. Westermarck C 101) and online via Zoom: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/67106913984. Please log in to the seminar with your full name in order to be admitted.

Time: Wednesday 6 April 2022 at 17.00-18.30 (Finnish Time)

Prof. Avril Maddrell, University of Reading, UK:

Equal in Death? The Universal ‘Right to Rites’ and the Experience of Minority Cemetery and Crematoria Needs in Northern Europe

Dr. Paulina Kolata, Lund University, Sweden:
Touching the Untouchable: Death Care under Covid-19 in the UK

Moderator: Dr. Magdalena Nordin, Gothenburg University, Sweden

The open keynote lectures are part of the roundtable conference “‘Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes’? Funerals in the North of Europe – similarities and differences” arranged in Åbo 6–8 April by the Swedish funerals research network, The Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS), Uppsala University and the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Åbo/Turku, Finland.