Conference Papers
Congresses, Seminars, Conferences (recent years only)
2021, September 6-9, Death online in Italy: online grieving and digital continuing bonds, (accepted paper) Francesca Pasquali and Roberta Bartoletti, Ecrea, 8th European Communication Conference (postponed from October 2020 due to Covid-19)
2021, April 21-23, Death online in Italy: online grieving and continuing bonds (accepted paper), Roberta Bartoletti and Francesca Pasquali, The 5th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network, Copenhagen, Denmark, (postponed from May 2020 due to Covid-19)
2020, February 12-14, The changing meaning of cremation in a catholic country. Italy in historical perspective (1876-2018), Asher Colombo, Histories of Death Symposium, University of Turku, Finland, paper accepted September 7, 2019 (not attended due to Covid-19 crisis)
2019, September 12-14, The institutionalization of death in hospital settings in Italy: an historical perspective (1883-2013), Asher Daniel Colombo with Rocco Molinari, ECSR Annual conference, “Inequality over the life course”, Lausanne, Switzerland, paper accepted April 7, 2019
2019, September 4-7, 14th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD14), University of Bath, Oral presentation accepted: “Why do we go to the Cemetery? Religion, Social Capital, and the Cult of Dead in Today’s Italy” (Asher Colombo along with Eleonora Vlach), paper accepted mar 28, 2019.
2019, July 7-11, Tweeting about ghosts: death, mourning and postmortem bonds in 2000s Italian TV series, Stefania Antonioni, Roberta Bartoletti, Francesca Pasquali, Emiliano Chirchiano, IAMCR Conference, Madrid.
2019, 13-14 June, Narrazioni della perdita nella serialità televisiva italiana: il dispositivo del fantasma, Roberta Bartoletti, Stefania Antonioni, Sergio Brancato, Francesca Pasquali, paper accepted at the PIc-Ais Midteerm Conference Gli indistinti confini. Transmedialità nei processi comunicativi e transdisciplinarietà nelle scienze sociali, Università di Bologna, Bologna.
2019, 21-22 February, Narrazioni della perdita nella serialità televisiva italiana: il dispositivo del fantasma, Roberta Bartoletti, Stefania Antonioni, Sergio Brancato, Francesca Pasquali, paper accepted at the Congress Screen cultures. Cinque parole chiave per la ricerca del XXI secolo Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome.
2018, October 31- November 3, "Chiamala Vanessa” (“Call her Vanessa”). Death, mourning and postmortem bonds in 2000s Italian tv series, Francesca Pasquali, Stefania Antonioni, Roberta Bartoletti, Sergio Brancato, paper accepted at the Ecrea 7th European Communication Conference, Lugano (CH) .
2018, november 15-16, Narrazioni della morte e del lutto nella serialità televisiva italiana contemporanea: il dispositivo del fantasma, Roberta Bartoletti, Stefania Antonioni, Sergio Brancato, Francesca Pasquali, paper presented at the congress Divenire sempre. Come cambia la ricerca: dialoghi e proposte nel PIC-AIS, University of Palermo, Palermo.
2018, September 20-22, Death, funerals, mourning and postmortem bonds in 2000s Italian TV series, Stefania Antonioni, Roberta Bartoletti, Sergio Brancato, Francesca Pasquali, accepted as conference paper at the Congress TaCo2018 - Taboo and the Media Bertinoro, Italy.
2018, 13 September, Asher D. Colombo, "I sociologi e la morte", seminar Morte/Vita: Modi di Esistenza, Mort/Vie : Modes d’Existence, chaired by Paolo Fabbri, Centro Internazionale di Scienze Semiotiiche, Università di Urbino, Urbino, Italy.
2018, August 10-11, Communicating with the Dead in Italy: An Emprical Research, Marco Marzano, Pre-Conference at 'ASA 2018, "The Roots and Branches of Interpretive Sociology:Cultural, Pragmatist, and Psychosocial Approaches", Philadelphia, PA (Usa).
2018, July 15-21, "Commercializing Death and Appropriating Mourning. Negotiating Bereavement Scripts Among Italian Families and Funeral Service Workers" Roberta Sassatelli, Elia AG Arfini, accepted as a Distributed Paper, XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology , Toronto, Canada.