AGS Virtual Conference and Annual Meeting
The Association for Gravestone Studies requests paper submissions for its virtual annual conference, June 18-27, 2021. Research on all aspects of the study of gravestones, cemeteries, or closely related topics is eligible: preservation issues, carver studies, marker styles and motifs, management and interpretation issues, burial practices, historic surveys, cemetery histories, etc. In the past winners have come from art, art history, architecture, folklore, conservation, genealogy, anthropology, historic preservation, popular culture, and other allied fields. This conference is an opportunity to have extended conversations with conservators, cemetery managers, historians, advocates, preservationists, academics, other students, and early career professionals from around the world who practice, research, and promote gravestone studies.