Here’s Your Chance
To Attend a National Conference of the Funeral Consumers Alliance
Registration is now up for the FREE Fall National Conference at https://funerals.org/conference-2020/
Keynote Speakers include:
Wednesday September 23, 2020
Featured Live Keynote— Dr. Kami Fletcher, Associate Professor of History, Albright College
African American Undertaking: History, Burial Rights and Deathwork
Specifically discussing her research about the earliest African American undertakers in Baltimore, Dr. Fletcher provides a history of African American undertaking and undertakers. Focusing on the rise of the Reconstruction-Era African American undertaker, Dr. Fletcher will show how race, racism and the autonomous black cemetery led to early 20th-century African American undertaking as a vehicle for wealth building and communal self-help. The talk will put special emphasis on how Black women undertakers used newspapers to subvert patriarchy and gender norms in order to thrive in death work that was dominated by men.
Thursday September 24, 2020
Live Keynote—Sarah Jane Lambring, FCA of North Texas, FCA national board
Distance Grieving: Ritual and Connection When We Can’t Be There in Person
Explore how funeral homes are tackling pandemic restrictions, discover unique solutions families have implemented, and discuss the successes and failures of mourning at a distance.