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Hřbitovy jako součást krajiny v průběhu staletí
Cemeteries as part of the landscape over the centuries
Event by: Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i.
Location: Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, v. v. i. | Institue of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Husova 4, Praha 1
About event
We cordially invite you to participate in the international interdisciplinary conference focused on funeral culture, which will take place 5th to 6. November 2025 in Prague.
This conference builds on a long tradition of session on the issue of sepulkral monuments and its aim is to expand their thematic and methodological scope. This year, the theme will be the cemeteries as part of the landscape over the centuries, the role of burial grounds in social, urban and natural environment. The conference wants to open space for experts from various scientific disciplines and approaches and offer a platform for discussion on historical, anthropological, artistic and social aspects of cemetery. Cultural landscapes - the role of burial grounds in urban and natural environment, their protection and transformations Contexts.
posts may apply to all aspects of the issue, preference is preferred or methodological relationship to Central European material. Especially welcome are the contributions of young researchers, as well as contributions to Jewish or Muslim separal monuments, which can be devoted to a separate block.
Conference languages are Czech, Slovak, German and English. minutes)
• News (10 minutes)
• Panel presentations (including student panels)
Publications of contributions: from selected studies will be published collective monographs in the Epigraphica & Sepulcralia - monographs publishing house AS CR, v. I., Artifactum. Other texts can be included in the magazine Historie -Otázky - Probleme, possibly in the archive magazine, or the studio Historica et archivistica.
The organizational team reserves the right to select contributions. 2025.
The conference will take place on 5th - 6th. November 2025 at the Academic Conference Center, Husova 4A, Prague.
This conference builds on a long tradition of session on the issue of sepulkral monuments and its aim is to expand their thematic and methodological scope. This year, the theme will be the cemeteries as part of the landscape over the centuries, the role of burial grounds in social, urban and natural environment. The conference wants to open space for experts from various scientific disciplines and approaches and offer a platform for discussion on historical, anthropological, artistic and social aspects of cemetery. Cultural landscapes - the role of burial grounds in urban and natural environment, their protection and transformations Contexts.
posts may apply to all aspects of the issue, preference is preferred or methodological relationship to Central European material. Especially welcome are the contributions of young researchers, as well as contributions to Jewish or Muslim separal monuments, which can be devoted to a separate block.
Conference languages are Czech, Slovak, German and English. minutes)
• News (10 minutes)
• Panel presentations (including student panels)
Publications of contributions: from selected studies will be published collective monographs in the Epigraphica & Sepulcralia - monographs publishing house AS CR, v. I., Artifactum. Other texts can be included in the magazine Historie -Otázky - Probleme, possibly in the archive magazine, or the studio Historica et archivistica.
The organizational team reserves the right to select contributions. 2025.
The conference will take place on 5th - 6th. November 2025 at the Academic Conference Center, Husova 4A, Prague.