Today we have some exciting updates for you directly from our colleagues at Utrecht University, namely, an invitation to sign up for a PhD and MA student-focused NOISE Summer School on “Queer Death Studies: Loss and Grief in Contemporary Bio- and Necropolitics“ which takes place on 26-30 August 2024 in Utrecht, NL.
The 2024 edition of the summer school is coordinated by Dr Ida Hansen (Utrecht University) and Prof. Em. Nina Lykke (Linköping University).
Here is a brief description taken from the organisers’ website:
“Embedded in the emerging field of Queer Death Studies, this year’s NOISE summer school focuses on the topics of loss and grief by bringing perspectives from the fields of queer feminist, posthuman and eco-critical, anti-racist and post- and decolonial studies to bear on contemporary questions, practices and politics of life and death.
The interdisciplinary field of Queer Death Studies has, in recent years, taken shape as critical interventions in and reconfigurations of the ontologies, epistemologies and ethics that limit the conventional study of death and dying to the anthropocentric, racist, sexed/gendered and otherwise normatively figured human subject and its similarly imagined relations, with little attention paid to the impacts of contemporary bio- and necropolitics (Radomska, Mehrabi and Lykke 2020). Simultaneously, the topic of grief has received heightened attention with its recent realization as psychiatric diagnosis (i.e., the entries of “Prolonged Grief Disorder” in the DSM-5-TR and the ICD-11). Across expert discourse and popular-societal debate, however, resides a tendency to constrain engagement with experiences of loss to the question of whether to perceive of grief as pathology, rather than asking what else this phenomenon might have to tell us about life and death. […]”
READ MORE ABOUT THE SUMMER SCHOOL AND LEARN HOW TO REGISTER.
Queer Death Studies Network 