The Death Studies Podcast

47 Episodes

1. Todd Meyers on grief, anthropology, entanglements, addiction, language, overdose death, opioid crisis, life’s incoherence and knowing your limits

   Published: 2/1/2025
2. Professor Michele Aaron on filmmaking and end of life care, hospice documentary, death and LGBTQIA+ communities, palliative care, film practice, ethics, visual culture and dying

   Published: 1/3/2025
3. 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

   Published: 12/1/2024
4. Dr. Heidi Kosonen on representations of voluntary death suicide, posthumanism, planetary death, emotion, affect, disgust and gender

   Published: 11/1/2024
5. Evie King on council funerals, being a funeral officer, unidentified dead, Section 46, dying alone

   Published: 10/1/2024
6. 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

   Published: 9/1/2024
7. 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

   Published: 8/1/2024
8. DeathxDesignxCulture: Radical Re-Imaginings for End of Life Promo!

   Published: 7/22/2024
9. Dr Hannah Gould on death and the dead in Japan, changing death rituals, necromaterials, death rites, caring for the dead, death technologies, vertical burial and ethnographies of things.

   Published: 7/1/2024
10. Dr Juliet Hooker on Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, language and social justice, democracy, and killings by the police in the US  

    Published: 5/31/2024
11. Dr. Yasmin Gunaratnam on transnational dying, end-of-life care, being a carer, education with end-of-life-care professionals, art methods, anti-colonial death studies, genocide, yoga, and ADHD

    Published: 5/2/2024
12. M. F. (Mike) Alvarez on suicide, mental health and illness, the ethics of autoethnography, fine art, reflexive writing, creative writing, interdisciplinarity and biases in suicidolodgy and the academy

    Published: 4/1/2024
13. Clare Hogan on death anxiety, breath work, transpersonal psychology, performing death, death cafes and seeing death as an adventure and gateway to more life.

    Published: 3/4/2024
14. Professor Lucy Easthope on disaster recovery, emergency planning, risk, the Grenfell and Hillsborough disasters in the UK, humanitarian disasters, pregnancy loss, hope and wellbeing

    Published: 2/1/2024
15. Professor Ann Luce on suicide, the ethical reporting of suicide, suicide prevention, the Bridgend suicides, emotional labour in research self-care, and living with post-Covid complications

    Published: 1/7/2024
16. Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture

    Published: 12/7/2023
17. Dr Christopher Hood on the world’s largest single plane crash, memorials, disasters, Japan and Japanese memorial cultures, writing fiction, plane crashes, mental health and suicide in academia

    Published: 12/1/2023
18. Foluke Taylor on Black feminist writing and the permission to write (and think) differently, the limits of decolonisation, citational practices, therapy, language, grief, and more!

    Published: 11/1/2023
19. Angeline Morrison at the 2023 Falmouth University Haunted Landscapes conference on voicing Black British ancestors through music, folk music and death, sorrow songs and more!

    Published: 10/1/2023
20. Ru Callender on funerals, radical undertaking, eco-funerals, green undertaking, bereavement, grief and loss

    Published: 9/1/2023