The Green Zone seminar series: Queer Death Studies in times of Anthropocene Necropolitics with speakers Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska.
We wholeheartedly invite you to join us on 12th November for the Green Zone seminar on the recently published Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies (2026). We will be joined by the editors, Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi and Marietta Radomska. The seminar takes place at Accelerator, Stockholm.
Abstract
Taking research and art-making on death, dying, mourning, and afterlife into new directions, the book explores the multiple effects of contemporary necropolitics and the proliferation of death-worlds during the current period of Earth’s history, ‘The Anthropocene’.
Informed by queer, critical posthumanist, decolonial, and feminist approaches, the Handbook presents a unique variety of both critical and affirmative reflections upon the world’s intersecting necropowers, and ethico-political potentials for social and environmental change. Contributors speculate on ways to reimagine life/ death-relations as vibrant entanglements. They also investigate modes of mourning differently, resisting necropolitical regimes that deem human and non-human individuals and populations to be disposable and non-grievable when they differ too much from the normative modern subject, Universal Man, in terms of intersections of gender, racialisation, class, sexuality, embodiment, embrainment, geopolitical positioning, or species.
Speaker bios
Nina Lykke – a queerfeminist philosopher-poet and writer; Emerita-Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University; member of CUHRE, Elite Center for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment, University of Southern Denmark. She* co-founded the Network for Queer Death Studies, (co-)authored books such as Vibrant Death (2022), Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters (2024) and Cancer Ecologies (2026), and co-edited Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies (2026).
Tara Mehrabi is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. Her research engages feminist technoscience, intersectionality, feminist posthumanities, digital humanities, and queer death studies. She is a founding member of the Network for Queer Death Studies, and co-editor of books New Materialism and Intersectionality: Making Middles Matter (2025) and Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies (2026).
Marietta Radomska, PhD, Docent, is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities at Linköping University; director of The Eco- and Bioart Lab; co-founder of Queer Death Studies Network; member of Bioart Society; and co-editor of State of the Art – Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing (2023) and Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies (2026). She works at the intersection of environmental humanities, continental philosophy, queer death studies, contemporary art, and artistic research.
The Green Zone Seminar Series is organised and hosted by Stockholm University Environmental Humanities Network.
The present seminar is organised in collaboration with Queer Death Studies Network and The Eco- and Bioart Lab.
