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 …
Call for abstracts: Queer Death Studies Reader. Edited by Nina Lykke, Marietta Radomska and Tara Mehrabi
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, …
The Posthumanities Hub Seminar on ‘Queer Death Aesthetics’ (online)
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 …
Continue reading "The Posthumanities Hub Seminar on ‘Queer Death Aesthetics’ (online)"
New Publication: Special issue of the journal Australian Feminist Studies focused on Queer Death Studies
We are delighted to say that the special issue of the journal Australian Feminist Studies focused on the topic of “Queer Death Studies” and co-edited by Marietta Radomska, Tara Mehrabi and Nina Lykke, has finally been published. The issue contains contributions by QDS scholars: Patricia MacCormack, Marietta Radomska, Tara Mehrabi, Stine Willum Adrian, Margrit Shildrick, Hema’ny Molina Vargas, Camila Marambio and Nina Lykke. The collection …
InterGender course “Queer Death Studies – Analyzing and Resisting Necropower”
NEWS via InterGender, Consortium and Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies http://www.Intergender.net For this course PhD students, but also Master’s students are eligible to apply. Title of the Course: Queer Death Studies – Analyzing and Resisting Necropower The recommended accreditation is: 7,5 + 7,5 credits Time: December 8, 2020 Location: Online Deadline …
Continue reading "InterGender course “Queer Death Studies – Analyzing and Resisting Necropower”"
The First International Queer Death Studies Conference “Death Matters, Queer(ing) Mourning, Attuning to Transitionings” is almost here!
For all the latest info about the conference, check the official conference website or the tab 'programme' on our website! Official conference hashtag: #QueerDeath2019
Special issue of Women, Gender & Research focused on QDS is out now!
It is our great pleasure to let you know that the long-awaited special issue of the journal Women, Gender & Research, focused on Queer Death Studies: Coming to Terms with Death, Dying and Mourning Differently, and edited by Marietta Radomska, Tara Mehrabi and Nina Lykke is out now available in OPEN ACCESS here.
Seminar “Queer Death Studies: Searching Points of Exit from Hegemonic Narratives” with Professor Margrit Schildrick and Dr. Marietta Radomska (at University of Jyväskylä, FI)
Welcome to the seminar "Queer Death Studies: Searching Points of Exit from Hegemonic Narratives" with Professor Margrit Schildrick and Dr. Marietta Radomska. The seminar, held on the 28 of May (D 109) at 13-16, is organised by the Disgust Network in collaboration with Crises Redefined: Historical Continuity and Societal Change. Further details below. Seminar “Queer …
CFP: Dying at the Margins: A critical exploration of Material-Discursive Perspectives to Death and Dying
Organizers: Natashe Lemos Dekker (University of Amsterdam and Leiden University Medical Center) and Jesse D Peterson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Place: Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Dates: September 26-27, 2019 Description Death is often assumed to arrive when heart and lungs stop. Yet, sometimes the borders between life …
The First International Queer Death Studies Conference: CfP is out now!
The First International Queer Death Studies Conference: “Death Matters, Queer(ing) Mourning, Attuning to Transitionings”, organised with the support from Karlstad University and Linköping University, takes place on 4-5 November 2019 in Karlstad, Sweden. The CfP has just been announced and you may check it out here. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2019.
Queer Death Studies Network 