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 …
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We have a pleasure to share with you the latest update from the editors of the OPEN ACCESS journal Research in Arts & Education, namely, that the special issue focused on topic of death and guest-edited by Helena Sederholm has now been published! Below we include a brief summary from the editors of the journal and the table …
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On 23rd March 2023, seven speakers and almost forty members of the audience have gathered at the Museum of Work in Norrköping for "Ecologies of Death, Ecologies of Mourning. Vol. I: An International Symposium". The event was the first in the series of activities focused on critical and creative approaches to grief and mourning in …
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During the second half of March 2023, The Eco- and Bioart Lab, Queer Death Studies Network and Tema G (the unit of Gender Studies) at Linköping University (LiU) have a pleasure to host our guest and visiting researcher Prof. Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK). We are thrilled to hold several local, hybrid and online …
In case you cannot make it for our symposium on 23rd March in Norrköping, or if you are still thirsty and wish to explore the theme further, you are warmly invited to join us - in a bit altered line-up - for this online event: Welcome to The Posthumanities Hub & The Eco- and Bioart …
Ecologies of Death, Ecologies of Mourning: Volume I International Symposium 23rd March 2023, 13:00 – 18:00 Organised by The Eco- and Bioart Lab, in collaboration with Queer Death Studies Network Venue: Arbetets Museum (The Museum of Work), Norrköping Keynote speakers: Prof. Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) Prof. Em. Nina Lykke (Linköping University, SE/Aarhus University, …
Nina Lykke: Vibrant Death. A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning. Bloomsbury Academic, London. WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM DECEMBER 2021, MORE INFO: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/vibrant-death-9781350149731/ Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking. It offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. The book's ethico-political figuration of vibrant …
The field of Queer Death Studies The planned reader will gather a wide range of contributions to the field of Queer Death Studies (QDS). This is an emerging, transdisciplinary field of study which takes research on death, dying, and mourning in new directions, inspired by feminist, posthumanist, decolonial, anti-racist, queer, trans, body- and affect-theoretical scholarship, …
Join us for The Posthumanities Hub Seminar on Queer Death Aesthetics, which takes place on 27th May at 13:15 – 15:00 CEST and is organised in collaboration with The Eco- and Bioart Lab. The speakers are: Karolina Żyniewicz (University of Warsaw, PL) and Jacob B. Riis (Aarhus University, DK). For more details, also on how …
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