All about the ASCE Annual General Meeting and an overview of past meetings, their location and topics.
AGM 2022
This year's AGM and Conference will take place from 15 to 17 September 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. News and updates are being published on our website, social media and sent vida our newsletter on a regular basis, so don`t forget to follow us.About AGM
Each year Annual General Meeting and conference 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 from modern cemeteries management. This main ASCE event is held at the end of September or beginning of October 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.
- Guided tour of the 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 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