The Death Studies Podcast
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Professor Richard Coker on public health, HIV/AIDS, being a medical…
Professor Richard Coker on public health, HIV/AIDS, being a medical…
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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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- Professor Richard Coker on public health, HIV/AIDS, being a medical doctor, dissection, infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and medical training · 1 h 12 minIn this episode, hear Dr Richard Coker on public health, HIV/AIDS, being a medical doctor, dissection, infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and medical training Who is Richard?…
- Dr Jane McCarthy on grief, bereavement, family relationships, relationality, children, young people and death, decolonising death studies, climate emergency and more · 1 h 10 minWho is Jane? Jane McCarthy is an English sociologist who has worked for many decades across various disciplines to focuson ‘family’, childhood, and relationality. In the last 25…
- Professor Joanna Stalnaker on death and philosophy, writing at the end of life, last works, Enlightenment thinking, women in the Enlightenment, teaching, and developing a brain tumour · 1 h 0 minWhat's is this episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Joanna Stalnaker on death and philosophy, writing at the end of life, last works, Enlightenmentthinking, women and…
- J.T. Welsch on poetry and suicide, poets’ lives, autoethnography, memoir, suicidology, creative writing, language and the messiness of life · 1 h 14 minWho is J.T. Welsch? J. T. Welsch is a writer and academic born in the US andbased in the UK, where he teaches at the University of York. He is the author of several books of and…
- Love and Loss: A Day at Arnos Vale Historic Garden Cemetery, Bristol discussing love, romance, death, culture, prison writing, slow suicide, creative writing, obituaries, epitaphs and more · 49 minWhat's the episode about? In this episode, hear about an event on Love and Loss: A DayAt Arnos Vale Historic Garden Cemetery, Bristol discussing love, romance, sex, death…
- Dead Women and Gendered Death in Visual Culture for MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture · 53 minDead Women and Gendered Death in Visual Culture for MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Co-edited by Devaleena Kundu, Bethan-Michael-Fox, and Khyati Tripathi, Dead Women and…
- Dr Molly Conisbee on social histories of death and mourning, liberation thanatology, lessons from the history of death, walking tours and being a bereavement councillor · 1 h 11 minWhat's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Molly Conisbee on social histories of death and mourning, liberation thanatology, lessons fromthe history of death, walking…
- Professor Sandra Ruiz on poetry, writing, form, Brown Study, Ricanness, anticoloniality, grief-work, walking and being with the dead, and minoritarian aesthetics · 51 minWhat's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Sandra Ruiz on poetry, writing, form, Brown Study, Ricanness, anticoloniality, grief-work, walking and being with the…
- Ruth E. Toulson on the necropolitics of the ordinary, dying and death in Singapore, anthropology, burials, funeral directors and morticians · 1 h 18 minWhat's the episode about? In this episode, hear Ruth E. Toulson on the necropolitics of the ordinary, dying and death in Singapore, anthropology, burials, funeral directors and…
- Professor Beverley Clack on philosophy of religion, failure, loss, neoliberalism, thinking about death and not freaking out, women, gender and good public conversations about difficult topics · 1 h 5 minWhat's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Beverley Clack on philosophyof religion, failure, loss, neoliberalism, thinking about death and not freaking out, women…
- Cole Imperi on grief, thanatology, shadow loss, and non-clinical tools in support of those experiencing loss and grief · 59 minCole Imperi on grief, thanatology, shadow loss, and non-clinical tools in support of those experiencing loss and grief. What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Cole…
- Dr. Nina Vaswani on young men and grief during in imprisonment, childhood bereavement, masculinities, trauma informed practice, disenfranchised grief and public health responses to grief · 1 h 14 minWhat'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…
- Joshua Hurtado Hurtado on postmortal futures, future studies, de-growth, immortality imaginaries, future collective death, Westworld, and promoting your work in 2026 · 1 h 15 minWhat's the episode about? In this episode, hear Joshua Hurtardo Hurtardo on postmortal futures, future studies, de-growth, immortality imaginaries, future collective death…
- Professor Douglas Davies on the development of death studies, ‘words against death’, the ‘dividual’, religion, ‘sacred secrets’, the ‘opacity of the self’ and the ‘curated everything’ · 1 h 14 minWhat's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Douglas Davies on thedevelopment of death studies, ‘words against death’, the ‘dividual’, religion, ‘sacred secrets’…
- Dr. Jessica Young on assisted dying, the New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill, culturally responsive research, end of life care and decision making, and sociological approaches · 1 h 6 minWhat'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…
- DDD17: The 2025 Death, Dying and Disposal Conference · 1 h 39 minWhat'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…
- Dr. Kaylee Alexander on digital humanities, being a research data librarian, visual culture, cemeteries, French cemetery laws, cemetery sculpture, ethically sound data visualisation and survival bias · 58 minWhat's the episode about? In this episode, hear Kaylee Alexander discuss the digital humanities, being a research data librarian, visual culture, cemeteries, French cemetery…
- Professor Patricia MacCormack on philosophy, death activism, veganism, antinatalism, necrosexuality, the Anthropocene, dudebros in academia, and a loving and vitalist relationship to death · 1 h 19 minWhat's the episode about? In this episode, hear Patricia MacCormack on philosophy, death activism, veganism, antinatalism, necrosexuality, the Anthropocene, dudebros in academia…
- Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology, complicated grief, being a non-religious chaplain, hospice and loss · 1 h 16 minWhat'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…
- Dr. Sydney Campbell on Medical Assistance in Dying for mature minors, children’s participation, policy, assisted dying, childism, participatory research and end-of-life contexts · 1 h 0 minWhat'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…
