The Dignity of the Dead

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The Dignity of the Dead

Veranstalter
Einstein Forum, Potsdam
Ausrichter
Einstein Forum, Potsdam
Veranstaltungsort
Am Neuen Markt 7
PLZ
14467
Ort
Potsdam
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
19.05.2022 - 21.05.2022
Website
https://www.einsteinforum.de/tagung/the-dignity-of-the-dead/
Von
Liane Marz, Einstein Forum Potsdam

International Conference at the Einstein Forum, Potsdam
May 19 - May 21, 2022

The Dignity of the Dead

Conception: Mischa Gabowitsch, Potsdam, and Frédéric Keck, Paris/Berlin
with Sarah Benz, Berlin; Gaëlle Clavandier, Saint-Étienne; Nerija Putinaitė, Vilnius; Isabelle Reimann, Berlin; Iryna Sklokina, Lviv; Holger Stoecker, Göttingen; Liv Nilsson Stutz, Växjö; Małgorzata Wosińska, Warsaw; Alexei Yurchak, Berkeley

In a time of war and plague, how do we treat the dead with dignity? How has this question been answered in different times and places? Why do we display the bodies of certain heroes or victims, of certain saints or political leaders? Why do we present some of our dead in museums in the name of medicine or as colonial artefacts? What is the duty of the living to the dead?

Live at the Einstein Forum, Potsdam, no registration necessary.
Also streamed via zoom, to join the discussion online please register via our website: www.einsteinforum.de.

Programm

Thursday, May 19
19.00 Round table discussion:
Exposing the Dead. Human Remains on Display
With Isabelle Reimann, Holger Stoecker, Liv Nilsson Stutz, Aleksei Yurchak. Chair: Frédéric Keck

Friday, May 20
10:00 Mischa Gabowitsch
Introduction: The Dead Among Us

10:30 Liv Nilsson Stutz
Embodied Rituals and Ritualized Bodies – Making Sense of Death

11:30 Gaëlle Clavandier
The Handling of the Deceased During the COVID-19 pandemic

14:30 Alexei Yurchak
Bodies of Lenin. Ideology and Biochemistry in the Laboratory of the Future

16:00 Nerija Putinaitė
Undignified Deaths of Outlaws in the Soviet Union. The Case of Lithuanian Deportees and Camp Prisoners

17:30 Iryna Sklokina
Discourses on the Dignity of the Dead in the Ongoing Russian War Against Ukraine

19:00 Sarah Benz
Selbstbestimmt Abschied nehmen?

Saturday, May 21

10:30 Frédéric Keck
Human Remains in Baobab Trees and Anthropology Museums: Investigating Burial Practices in Senegal

11:30 Małgorzata Wosińska
Commemoration of Human Remains in Rwanda as an Emancipatory Strategy Against the Dominance of Holocaust Discourse

13:00 Holger Stoecker
Iwi Kupūna in Collections of the University of Göttingen. On the provenance and repatriation of ancestral remains from Hawaii

The event will be held in English

Kontakt

einsteinforum@einsteinforum.de

https://www.einsteinforum.de/tagung/the-dignity-of-the-dead/