Transnational death in times of crises

Program
 

12.00 Dr. Sergei Mokhov, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Funeral Rite in Contemporary Russia: Grief, Overcoming and Materiality. Also in Zoom at 12.00 - 13.00 (Helsinki time).

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13.15 The program continues in the Room AU104-AU105 (Yliopistokatu 2, Aurora II Building, B-door) with the following presentations:

13.15 Pirjo Pöllänen Universal and individual feelings of death – is it possible to study feelings by using ethnographic methods
14.00 Ismo Björn Finnish cemetery as a theater stage – roles, scenery, direction script (private and public)
14.45 Oleg Reut Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Places of Honorary Burials in Petrozavodsk
15.30 Teemu Oivo Returning to motherland in coffins: collectivized media representations of death
16.15 Olga Davydova-Minguet Bracketed war, bracketed deaths. Difficulties in talking about the current war in Ukraine with Russian-speaking immigrants in Grenoble, France.

Dr. Sergei Mokhov is Editor of the Eastern and North European Journal of Death Studies  
Ambassador for Russia of the Association for the Study of Death and Society
Latest publications:
- Sergei Mokhov (2022) Death and Funeral Practices in Russia. Routledge. ISBN 9780367721527.  
- Sergei Mokhov and Anastasia Novkunskaya (2021) Infrastructural Breaks on the Road from Birth to Death in Contemporary Russia. Religions 12, 1115.
- Sergei Mokhov (2021) Care for the dying in contemporary Russia: the hospice movement in a low-income context, Mortality, 26:2, 202 215
- Sergei Mokhov, Anna Sokolova (2020) Broken infrastructure and soviet modernity: the funeral market in Russia, Mortality, 25:2, 232 248