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The Death Studies Podcast

The Death Studies Podcast

The Death Studies Podcast is a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Find out more at www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com

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01:14:50

Dr. Nina Vaswani on young men and grief during in...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2026/02/01

What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Nina Vaswani on young men and grief during in imprisonment, childhood bereavement, masculinities and grief, trauma informed practice, comics for education and research, disenfranchised grief, grieving a death you have caused, and public health responses to grief Who is Nina? Nina is Senior Research Fellow at the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice, University of Strathclyde. Her key research interests are the experience and impact of

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01:15:44

Joshua Hurtado Hurtado on postmortal futures, future...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2026/01/02

What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Joshua Hurtardo Hurtardo on postmortal futures, future studies, de-growth, immortality imaginaries, future collective death, Westworld, and promoting your work in 2026 Who is Joshua?Joshua Hurtado Hurtado is a Mexican interdisciplinary researcher, currently finalising his PhD research at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He studied International Relations for his Bachelor’s degree at the Tecnológico de Monterrey university,in Mexico. He obtained his

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01:14:51

Professor Douglas Davies on the development of death...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/12/01

What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Douglas Davies on thedevelopment of death studies, ‘words against death’, the ‘dividual’, religion, ‘sacred secrets’, the ‘opacity of the self’ and the ‘curated everything’, keeping a dream diaries since 1979, the over-optimism of posthumanism, wealth inequality, & the privilege of intellectuals as ‘people who think’.Who is Douglas? This introduction to Douglas Davies was written by DrGeorgina Robinson, who awarded Douglas with the

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01:06:38

Dr. Jessica Young on assisted dying, the New Zealand...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/11/01

What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Jessica Young on assisteddying, the New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill, culturally responsive research, end of life care and decision making, and sociological approaches.Who is Jessica?Dr Jessica Young is a Senior Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland, and an adjunct senior lecturer in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology.She is a sociologist specialising

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01:39:26

DDD17: The 2025 Death, Dying and Disposal Conference

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/10/01

What's the episode about?In this episode, get an overview of the 2025 Death, Dying and Disposal Conference held in Utrecht in the Netherlands What was the conference about? The below information was taken from the conference website.'Death is political and performs the political. This is evident not only in death itself, but also in the dead (who can become political actors), their bodies, the process of dying (which is, amongst others, infrastructurally related to political discourse and

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00:57:37

Dr. Kaylee Alexander on digital humanities, being a...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/08/01

What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Kaylee Alexander discuss the digital humanities, being a research data librarian, visual culture, cemeteries, French cemetery laws, cemetery sculpture, ethically sound data visualisation and survival bias Who is Kaylee?Dr. Kaylee P. Alexander is a Research Data Librarian at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture from Duke University and specializes in nineteenth-century visual

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01:19:58

Professor Patricia MacCormack on philosophy, death...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/07/03

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Patricia MacCormack on philosophy, death activism, veganism, antinatalism, necrosexuality, the Anthropocene, dudebros in academia, and a loving and vitalist relationship to deathWho is Patricia?Professor Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy. She is the author of Cinesexuality (Routledge2008) and Posthuman Ethics (Routledge 2012) and the editorof The Animal Catalyst (Bloomsbury 2014), Deleuze andthe Animal (EUP 2017), Deleuze

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01:16:41

Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology,...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/06/01

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology, complicated grief, being a non-religious chaplain, hospice and loss.Who is Terri?Dr. Terri Daniel is an inter-spiritual hospice chaplain, end-of-life educator, and grief counselor certified in death, dying and bereavement by the Association of Death Education and Counseling and in family-focused grief therapy by ThePortland Institute for Loss and Transition. She conducts workshops throughout the

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01:00:39

Dr. Sydney Campbell on Medical Assistance in Dying...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/05/01

What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Sydney Campbell on Medical Assistance in Dying for mature minors, children’s participation, policy, assisted dying, childism, participatory research and end-of-life contexts Who is Sydney? Dr. Sydney Campbell is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University. She completed her PhD in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto wherein she generated conceptual and empirical

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00:42:39

Professor Claire Nally on literature, Goth,...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/04/01

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Claire Nally on literature, Goth, Steampunk, death memoirs, representations of dead women, death positive libraries & working in academiaWho is Claire? Claire Nally is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University, UK, where sheresearches Irish Studies, Neo-Victorianism, Gender and Subcultures. She published her first monograph, Envisioning Ireland: W. B. Yeats’s Occult Nationalism, in 2009, followed by her

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01:00:29

Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/03/11

What's the episode about?In this episode, get an overview of the 2025 Edited Collection Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past What is the Book About?Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement. However, there has been little holistic or multidisciplinary research in this area, with studies typically focusing on individual settings such as hospitals and cemeteries, or being confined to specific

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01:31:19

The 7th International Symposium of the Death Online...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/03/04

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear highlights from the 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network (DORS#7) and Tamara Kneese on digital death, genAI, ethics, moving from academia to the private sector, data, society & collective actionWhat was DORS#7?The 7th International Symposium of the Death Online ResearchNetwork (DORS#7) on October 3rd–5th, 2024 was titled Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife. Hear soundbites and learn about the

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01:19:31

Todd Meyers on grief, anthropology, entanglements,...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/02/01

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Todd Meyers on grief, anthropology, entanglements, addiction, language, overdose death, opioid crisis, life’s incoherence and knowing your limits Who is Todd? Todd began his career as a painter, earning a BFA in studio from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His interests slowly moved to the history of medicine, public health, and anthropology, earning a PhD in anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University. Todd began teaching in

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01:07:05

Professor Michele Aaron on filmmaking and end of life...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2025/01/03

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Michele Aaron discuss filmmaking and end of life care, hospice documentary, death and LGBTQIA+ communities, palliative care, film practice, ethics and visual culture and dying Who is Michele? Michele completed her BA in English Literature at Queen Mary’s (or QMW as it was then) and both my MA, (in Culture and Social Change) and PhD (in contemporary film and fiction) at the University of Southampton. She joined Warwick in 2017 from the University

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01:37:14

DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE conference episode on death,...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2024/12/01

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear live recordings and interviews from the DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE conference at Falmouth University in September 2024. The episode features discussion of death, culture, older age rational suicide (OARS), film, design, grief, knitting, jewellery and memento mori, material culture, museums, and memorial reefs What was DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE? DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE: Radical Re-Imagining for the End of Life brought together an interdisciplinary group of

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00:57:52

Dr. Heidi Kosonen on representations of voluntary...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2024/11/01

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Heidi Kosonen discuss representations of voluntary death suicide, posthumanism, planetary death, emotion, affect, disgust and gender Who is Heidi? Heidi Kosonen is a postdoctoral researcher (Contemporary Culture) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, with research expertise covering varied affective contemporary cultural phenomena. She defended her PhD on suicide cinema from the perspectives of taboo and biopower Fall 2020 and is currently focused

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01:11:27

Evie King on council funerals, being a funeral...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2024/10/01

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Evie King discuss council funerals, being a funeral officer, the unidentified dead, Section 46, dying alone, rituals, respect for the dead, marginalisation and her book Ashes to Admin Who is Evie? Evie King is a council worker and writer. A former stand up comedian, she has always written short form pieces in the margins of her various day jobs, contributing to New Humanist, Guardian Comment is Free, BBC Comedy and Viz Comic. Since moving to the

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00:54:15

Dr. Minakshi Dewan on last rites and rituals in...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2024/09/01

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Dr. Minakshi Dewan on last rites and rituals in India, gender, faith, religion, funeral pyres, sky burial, caste, gender, discrimination and the professionalisation of rites and funerals Who is Minakshi? Dr Minakshi Dewan is a researcher and writer with a PhD degree in social medicine and community health from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a master's degree in social work from TISS Mumbai. She possesses extensive experience in health, gender,

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01:09:30

Professor Nina Lykke on queer & feminist death...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2024/08/01

What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Professor Nina Lykke on queer and feminist death studies; posthumanism; the more than human; necropolitics; philosophy, atheism and death; vibrant death; mourning, and ongoing relationships with the dead Who is Nina? Nina Lykke, Dr. Phil., Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. Nina participated in the building of Feminist Studies in Scandinavia and Europe more broadly

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00:01:35

DeathxDesignxCulture: Radical Re-Imaginings for End...

The Death Studies Podcast ·

2024/07/22

Find out more at: https://deathxdesignxculture.info/ or follow the gram RADICAL RE-IMAGININGS FOR THE END OF LIFE From 4-6 September, the Department of Graphic Design, Falmouth University (UK), and the Death and Culture Network, University of York (UK); in partnership with the Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan (USA), and the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group, University of Glasgow (UK) are hosting the DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE: RADICAL RE-IMAGININGS FOR THE END OF

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