their location and topics.
AGM 2024
This year’s AGM and Conference took place
from 19 to 21 September 2024 in Budapest, Hungary, within the organisation of the National Heritage Institute of Hungary. Conference inspired and served the professionals from various aspects of cemeteries. Touristic, artistic, historical, architectural and other topics merged but kept the same focus of Cemeteries as Cultural Spaces of European Remembrance. More about the AGM 2024 can be found HERE.
About the AGM and Conference
Each year, the Annual General Meeting attracts over 100
cemetery academics, artists and professionals from all over Europe. It
generates a lot of public attention and through the conference helps expose important topics on cemetery’s history, art, architecture, cultural heritage, sustainability, management, and future trends. This main ASCE event is
held at the end of September and consist of
three segments:
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Annual General Meeting of members, where most important projects
and activities of ASCE are presented, along with financial and
administrative reports. -
Conference which consists of presentations over themed subjects
arranged by the editorial board. -
Cultural program and guided tour of a significant cemetery where participants can
discover the particulary important monuments, events or stories that
shaped the cultural heritage of town, city and Europe.
AGM history
different topic. Below you can find
an overview of all the past Annual General Meetings from 2001 to
today.
Annual General Meeting 2024
Title: Cemeteries as Cultural Spaces of European Remembrance
Annual General Meeting 2021
Annual General Meeting 2019
Title: Shared use and reuse of cemeteries.
Annual General Meeting 2018
Title: European Cemeteries in the European year of
Cultural Heritage
Annual General Meeting 2017
Title: Ancient Greek Art and European Funerary Art
Annual General Meeting 2016
Title: Conflict, Memorialization = Reconciliation
Annual General Meeting 2015
Title: Foreigners in Significant Cemeteries
Annual General Meeting 2014
Title: Beyond the death: Remembrance, Memory and
Heritage
Annual General Meeting 2013
Title: Gardens, forests, cities. European
cemeteries as cultural landscape
Annual General Meeting 2012
Title: Promotion of cemeteries and their
surrounding territories
Annual General Meeting 2011
Title: Modern Influences on Significant
Cemeteries
Annual General Meeting 2010
Title: Cataloguing, preservation,
maintenance and restoration of cemeteries
Annual General Meeting 2009
Title: Cemetery, tourism and culture
Annual General Meeting 2008
Title: The role of volunteers in
cemetery care and management
Annual General Meeting 2007
22.9.2007)
Title: The significance of cemeteries
in society
Annual General Meeting 2006
Title: The importance of the history
of 19th and 20th century European
funerary sculpture
Annual General Meeting 2005
Title: The future of the cemetery
in cities
Annual General Meeting 2004
Title: Memory and future in
the architecture of European
cemeteries
Annual General Meeting 2003
19.10.2003)
Title:
Annual General Meeting 2002
19.10.2002)
Title: European cemeteries,
history, research and
restoration
Annual General Meeting
2001
(10.11.2001)
The first AGM: formal
establishment of ASCE and
election of ASCE
first president