Queer Death Studies Network

09/11/2025

BIG NEWS! The Routledge International Handbook of Q***r Death Studies, edited by Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska is finally out! 63 chapters and 73 contributors.
You can order - or better, ask your local library to order - this 758-page long behemoth of a book via Routledge website: https://www.routledge.com/9781032504384

The book also includes some contributions that are available in . One of them is Ch. 1 "Q***r Death Studies: In Times of Anthropocene Necropolitics and the Search for New Ethico-Political Imaginations": https://bit.ly/4p43793

18/08/2025

Today we would like to share some news especially relevant to our Swedish-speaking (or rather, reading) followers: a Swedish translation of the article "Q***r Death Studies: Death, Dying and Mourning From a Q***rfeminist Perspective" (originally published in Australian Feminist Studies in 2020) has just come out in the journal Fronesis (issue 86-87, focused on the theme of Futures / Framtider). The issue is available at selected bookshops, newsagents or via Fronesis website: https://fronesis.nu/.
Check it out!

15/07/2025

Check out this exciting PhD course organised at Stockholm University!

Feminist posthumanism and new materialism, 7,5 credits. Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism are fields within the humanities and the social sciences that are becoming increasingly important for understanding the antropocentric world, its more-than-human relationships, and rethinking of bodies,...

08/04/2025

Dear all - please check out this exciting CfP published by our colleagues at The Eco- and Bioart Lab!

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15th May

The Eco- and Bioart Lab International Symposium-Workshop “Critical Ecologies: Crisis, Grief, and Resilience in Philosophy, Art, and Science” 2nd-3rd October 2025, Arbetets Museum, Norrköping Presen…

03/09/2024

Tema G hybrid seminar with Prof. Christine Daigle (Brock Univ., Canada)! Register by scanning the QR code below!

01/09/2024

In April 2024 several of Q***r Death Studies Network members took an active part in Meta.Morf 2024 - [up]Loaded Bodies Trondheim Biennale for Art and Technology TEKS Opening Festival and Conference.

We are now delighted to read that Q***r Death Studies has been singled out by art curator and writer Regine Debatty in "We Make Money Not Art" as one of the seven thrilling and unique 'art and tech ideas' presented at the festival. You may learn more by clicking the link below.

Meanwhile, we are truly honoured to be mentioned in such an exciting company :)

From the art of photoprompting to the fact that many of the “godfathers” of the VR industry were in fact women

16/04/2024

Today and tomorrow Q***r Death Studies Network team and members have a pleasure to join in this exciting workshop held by Nordic Network Gender, Body and Health: "Vulnerability and the Gift of Death", taking place at Stockholm University

Tuesday, April 16 Södra huset D4110 (morning sessions) 09.30 Coffee and welcome 09.45 – 11.45 Chair: Lisa Käll Tara Mehrabi: “Killable bodies and necro-value in times of COVID: an ethnography of de…

08/03/2024

Important and beautiful collection of texts on environmental violence and ecocide inflicted upon Ukraine.

We’re delighted to launch London Ukrainian Review: War on the Environment 🌍

Learn about the current state of the debate through Anna Ackermann’s interview with the Stop Ecocide co-founder Jojo Mehta, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna’s poetry and essays by Kateryna Iakovlenko, Thammy Evans, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Marjukka Porvari.

➡️ Explore all the pieces in the latest issue at www.londonukrainianreview.org

London Ukrainian Review is published by the Ukrainian Institute London, in partnership with the Institute for Human Sciences and Academic Studies Press. It is edited by Sasha Dovzhyk.

This issue of LUR has also been supported by the Culture of Solidarity Fund powered by the European Cultural Foundation, the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, the Delegation of Flanders (Embassy of Belgium) in the UK and Ireland, the Cyprus High Commission and EUNIC London (European Union National Institutes for Culture).The issue contains specially commissioned illustrations by Kateryna Aliinyk.

08/03/2024

Our colleagues from Utrecht University have some exciting news to share: a NOISE Summer School on "Q***r Death Studies: Loss and Grief in Contemporary Bio- and Necropolitics", taking place on 26-30 Aug in Utrecht, NL.
The summer school is aimed at both PhD and MA students.

Check it out:

NOISE Summer School 2024 Q***r Death Studies Loss and Grief in Contemporary Bio- and Necropolitics Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies 26 – 30 August 2024, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. How are grief, loss and death conceptualized in the fields

06/10/2023

Exciting publication out soon!

It is our great pleasure to feature here on our blog the latest publication coming out via Bristol University Press and edited by Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker and Philip R. Olson –…