AGM

All about the ASCE Annual General Meeting and an overview of past meetings, 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:

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

Every time, AGM takes place in a different European city and addresses a different topic. Below you can find an overview of all the past Annual General Meetings from 2001 to today.

Annual General Meeting 2024

Budapets, Hungary (19. – 21.9.2024)
Title: Cemeteries as Cultural Spaces of European Remembrance

Annual General Meeting 2023

Mantua, Italy (21. – 23.9.2023)

Title: Cemeteries of the future

Annual General Meeting 2022

Belgrade, Serbia (15. – 17.9.2022)
Title: Cemeteries for everybody

Annual General Meeting 2021

Budapest, Hungary (16. – 18.9.2021)

Annual General Meeting 2020

Vienna, Austria (7.10.2020)

Online meeting with live broadcasting.

Annual General Meeting 2019

Ghent, Belgium (3. – 5.10.2019)

Title: Shared use and reuse of cemeteries.

Annual General Meeting 2018

Innsbruck, Austria (20. – 22.9.2018)

Title: European Cemeteries in the European year of Cultural Heritage

Annual General Meeting 2017

Athens, Greece (5. – 7.10.2017)

Title: Ancient Greek Art and European Funerary Art

Annual General Meeting 2016

Dublin, Ireland (6. – 8.10.2016)

Title: Conflict, Memorialization = Reconciliation

Annual General Meeting 2015

Bucharest, Romania (24. – 26.9.2015)

Title: Foreigners in Significant Cemeteries

Annual General Meeting 2014

Barcelona, Spain (2. – 4.10.2014)

Title: Beyond the death: Remembrance, Memory and Heritage

Annual General Meeting 2013

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (19. – 21.9.2013)

Title: Gardens, forests, cities. European cemeteries as cultural landscape

Annual General Meeting 2012

Maribor, Slovenia (13. – 15.9.2012)

Title: Promotion of cemeteries and their surrounding territories

Annual General Meeting 2011

Vienna, Austria (22. – 24.9.2011)

Title: Modern Influences on Significant Cemeteries

Annual General Meeting 2010

Cagliari, Italy (16. – 18.9.2010)

Title: Cataloguing, preservation, maintenance and restoration of cemeteries

Annual General Meeting 2009

Granada, Spain (1. – 3.10.2009)

Title: Cemetery, tourism and culture

Annual General Meeting 2008

Birkenhead, England (18. – 20.9.2008)

Title: The role of volunteers in cemetery care and management

Annual General Meeting 2007

Stavanger and Sandnes, Norway (20. – 22.9.2007)

Title: The significance of cemeteries in society

Annual General Meeting 2006

Verona, Italy (28. – 30.9.2006)

Title: The importance of the history of 19th and 20th century European funerary sculpture

Annual General Meeting 2005

Berlin, Germany (22. – 24.9.2005)

Title: The future of the cemetery in cities

Annual General Meeting 2004

Genoa, Italy (23. – 25.9.2004)

Title: Memory and future in the architecture of European cemeteries

Annual General Meeting 2003

Barcelona, Spain (16. – 19.10.2003)

Title:

Annual General Meeting 2002

Vilnius, Lithuania (17. – 19.10.2002)

Title: European cemeteries, history, research and restoration

Annual General Meeting 2001

Bologna, Italy (10.11.2001)

The first AGM: formal establishment of ASCE and election of ASCE first president

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