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 …

‘Queering Ecologies of Death’ panel at the SLSAeu GREEN conference in Copenhagen, 13-16 June 2018

On 14th July some of the QDS Network researchers had a pleasure to present their work in the two-session panel 'Queering Ecologies of Death', proposed by Prof. Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) and Dr. Marietta Radomska (Linköping University, SE), at the SLSAeu GREEN conference that took place on 13-16 June 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark. …

Full programme of The Third International Queer Death Studies Workshop is out now!

Dear all, Please, check the full programme - including abstracts and bios - of The Third International Queer Death Studies Workshop Death Matters: Death and Dying in a Queer Context, taking place on 30-31 May 2018 in Linköping, here. If you would like to attend the event, but haven't registered yet, please do so by sending an …

CfP for a special issue of Women, Gender & Research on Queer Death Studies

Cfp: KKF 2019/2-3: Queer Death Studies Call for Papers: Queer Death Studies: Coming to Terms with Death, Dying and Mourning Differently Special issue Women, Gender & Research, 2019/2-3 Queer Death Studies (QDS) refers to an emerging transdisciplinary field of research that critically and (self) reflexively investigates and challenges conventional normativities, assumptions, expectations, and regimes of …

The Third International Queer Death Studies Workshop “Death Matters: Death and Dying in a Queer Context”: the programme & registration!

Dear all, It is our great pleasure to announce the programme of the upcoming Third International Queer Death Studies Workshop: Death Matters: Death and Dying in a Queer Context that takes place on 30th and 31st May 2018 at Linköping University. The workshop starts at 10:15 on 30th May and finishes at 16:00 on 31st May. …

Deadline EXTENDED

Dear all, Due to many requests we received, we have decided to extend the abstract deadline for The Third International Queer Death Studies Workshop until 18th March 2018. You can find more information on the workshop, including the CfP here, or in the pdf version here. We hope that in this way those of you …

The Third International Queer Death Studies Workshop “Death Matters: Death and Dying in a Queer Context”, 30-31 May 2018 Linköping University, Sweden

CALL FOR PAPERS Queer Death Studies Network (QDSN) was officially launched in November 2016 at the G16: Swedish National Gender Research Conference in Linköping and has been vividly developing since then. The network constitutes a space for researchers, students, artists, activists, and other practitioners who critically and (self) reflexively investigate and challenge conventional normativities, assumptions, …