The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Pantheon: Cultural/Celebrity
Baker, S. 2004
‘Tales from the crypt/a Surrealist pantheon’, in R. Wrigley & M. Craske (eds) Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea, Aldershot: Ashgate, 167-192.
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Craske, M. 2004
‘Westminster Abbey: a public pantheon built upon private interest’, in R. Wrigley & M. Craske (eds) Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea, Aldershot: Ashgate, 57-80.
Dović M. & Helgason, J. 2016
National Poets, Cultural Sains: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe, Brill.
Jonge, H. de 2008
‘Patriotism and religion: pilgrimages to Soekarno’s grave’, in P.J. Margry (ed.) Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred (2008), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 95-120.
Kazmier, L. 2001
‘Her final performance: British culture, mourning and the memorialisation of Ellen Terry’, Mortality, 6:2, 167-190.
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Levitt, L. 2012
‘Solemnity and celebration: dark tourism experiences at Hollywood Forever Cemetery’, Journal of Unconventional Parks, Tourism & Recreation Research, 4:1, 20-25
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Levitt, L. 2018
Culture, Celebrity, and the Cemetery: Hollywood Forever. London: Routledge.
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Levitt, L. 2018
‘Fandom and its afterlife: celebrity cemetery tourism’, in C. Lundberg & V. Ziakas (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism, London: Routledge, 195-200.
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Margry, P. 2008
‘The pilgrimage to Jim Morrison’s grave at Père Lachaise cemetery: the social construction of sacred space’, in P. Margry (ed.) Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred (2008), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 143-172.
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Matthews, S. 2002
‘Burying Tennyson: the Victorian Laureate immortalised’, Mortality, 7:3, 247-68.
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Pasquali, S. 2004
‘From the pantheon of artists to the pantheon of illustrious men: Raphael’s tomb and its legacy’, in R. Wrigley & M. Craske (eds) Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea, Aldershot: Ashgate, 35-56.
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Pavićević, A. 2009
‘Welcoming the dead people: exhumation and reburial of famous deceased in Serbia’, in M. Rotar, V. Tudor Roşu & H. Frisby (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 306-325.
Renaudet, I. 2023
‘La seconde vie d’Eva Péron, de la Belle endormie à l’errance mortuarire’, in A. Carol & I. Renaudet (eds) Des Morts qui Dérogent: Á L’Écart des Normes Funéraires XIXe-XXe siècles, Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universaires de Provence, 83-104.
