Everyday Heritage & Afterlives of Asylum Burial Grounds Workshop, 27 October

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10:15-12:30 SESSION 1                   Researching Asylum Burial Grounds in the UK

10:15-10:30                        Alana Harris &                 Welcome and Introductory remarks

                                          Julie Rugg

10:30-11:00                        Claire Hilton                     Exploring Asylum Cemeteries

11:00-11:30                        Sarah Dentith                   Worcester Asylum Cemetery Burial Register

 11:30-12:00                      Colin Fenn                      State of the Nation’s Asylum Burial Grounds

 12:00-12:30                     Kevin McDonnell           Lessons from Friends of Horton Cemetery, Surrey

13:00-13:30 SESSION 2                   Sites as Testimony

 13:00-13:30                       Sue Stewart                       Littlemore Hospital, Oxford

 13:30-14:00                      Katherine Dettwyler   Delaware Hospital & New Castle County Almshouse

14:00-14:30                       Mindy Pitre, Madeleine     St. Lawrence County Poorhouse Cemetery in Canton, NY

                                          Mant and Maya Larrondo

14:30-15:00                       Maria Fiebrand &           Asylum Burial Grounds in Saxony as Crime Scenes & Testimony to Nazi Murder

                                           Hagen Markwardt        

15:30-17:45 SESSION 3                     Heritage

15:30-16:00                   Cecilia Rodéhn             Psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries – interred patients and cultural heritage

16:00-16:30                  Hannah Walton             Haunted Ground: Asylum Burial Grounds, Working-Class

                                                                                 Folklore and the Informal Archives of Institutional Death

16:30-17:00                   Harriet Harriss               The Precarious Dead: Asylum Cemeteries and Climate Collapse

 17:00-17:30                   Alana Harris                   Concluding discussion and next steps