The Death Studies Podcast

This podcast features a variety of perspectives on Death Studies, showcasing voices from academia and beyond to explore themes related to mortality and loss.

Recent Episodes

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Dec 1, 2024

DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE conference episode on death, culture, older age rational suicide (OARS), film, design, grief, knitting, jewellery and memento mori, material culture, museums, and memorial reefs

97 mins

Nov 1, 2024

Dr. Heidi Kosonen on representations of voluntary death suicide, posthumanism, planetary death, emotion, affect, disgust and gender

58 mins

Oct 1, 2024

Evie King on council funerals, being a funeral officer, unidentified dead, Section 46, dying alone

71 mins

Sep 1, 2024

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

54 mins

Aug 1, 2024

Professor Nina Lykke on queer & feminist death studies; posthumanism; the more than human; necropolitics; philosophy, atheism & death; vibrant death; mourning, & ongoing relationships with the dead

70 mins