Monday, October 28
16:00–20:00h
Arrival of Participants and Get Together
20:00h
Dinner
Tuesday, October 29
INTRODUCTION
9:30–10:00h
Matthias Bähr/Alexander Kästner (Dresden)
SESSION 1
10:00–10:45h
Sarah-Maria Schober (Zurich)
Skulls and Stories. Creating the Value of Bones in Blumenbach’s Collection
Coffee Break
11:15–12:00h
Anton Serdecnzy (Aix-Marseille/Florence)
From the Dead. An Anthropological History of Medical Resuscitation
12:00–12:45h
Simone Kahlow (Berlin)
Cut into Pieces in Service of Science – an Archaeological Point of View
12:45–14:30h
Lunch
SESSION 2
14:30–15:15h
Josef Vacek (Prague)
Unbaptized Infants: Commodity, Magic and Everyday Life
15:15–16:00h
Benedikt Brunner (Mainz)
Poor Maggot-Sack. The Corpse as Homiletical and Ritual Capital in Protestant Funeral Sermons, 1545–1725
Coffee Break
SESSION 3
16:30–17:15h
Lena Marasinova (Moscow)
The Corpses of the Criminal. The Punishment after Death in Eighteenth-Century Russia
17:15–18:00h
Alex Bamji (Leeds)
The Economics of the Corpse in Early Modern Venice
18:00–18:30h
Discussion and Conclusion
19:30h
Dinner