Conference Report: Necrogeographies of the Marginal Dead
Maja Rothardt has written a conference report on the KFG’s recent workshop on “Necrogeographies of the Marginal Dead“. The report was published on “H-Soz-Kult”:
Dealing with the dead and death is a topic that attracts scholars of every period. The universal question of transitioning from one state-of-being into the other represents a basic process applicable to every human being. As we all die one day and become part of the dead, their whereabouts and treatment will eventually affect every one of us. That is why this conference’s topic Necrogeographies of the Marginal Dead has a natural attraction to it because all of us will die one day and join the ranks of the dead. The conference combined the geographical aspect of placing the dead as well as looking at them as a marginal group. With examples from Europe, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, the conference offered a global view on the dead and transgressed traditional boundaries of space and time.
Read the full report here.

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urbrel (September 1, 2025). Conference Report: Necrogeographies of the Marginal Dead. Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations. Retrieved January 12, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/14k25





