Call for abstracts: Queer Death Studies Reader. Edited by Nina Lykke, Marietta Radomska and Tara Mehrabi

The field of Queer Death Studies The planned reader will gather a wide range of contributions to the field of Queer Death Studies (QDS). This is an emerging, transdisciplinary field of study which takes research on death, dying, and mourning in new directions, inspired by feminist, posthumanist, decolonial, anti-racist, queer, trans, body- and affect-theoretical scholarship, …

The First International Queer Death Studies Conference: CfP deadline 30 June!

The First International Queer Death Studies Conference: “Death Matters, Queer(ing) Mourning, Attuning to Transitionings” 4-5 NOVEMBER 2019, KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN ORGANISERS: Queer Death Studies Network Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University Tema Genus, Linköping University [for CfP - see below. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June] Official conference website: https://www.kau.se/en/centre-gender-studies/date/first-international-queer-death-studies-conference-death-matters In the context of the current …

Call for Contributions to the Edited Volume of the InterGender Research School!

Editors: Edyta Just, Maria Udén, Vera Weetzel, Cecilia Åsberg What is Gender Studies to you? How can Gender Studies contribute to society, academia and the state of our world at large? What is your view to the interdisciplinarity of Gender Studies? How has Gender Studies changed your career, your life, your world? How could Gender Studies change the world, …

CfP:”Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practice”: Conference in Växjö,

Call for Papers: "Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practice": Conference in Växjö, January 23-25, 2019 (from Wednesday 1- pm to Friday 1 pm) This transdisciplinary conference is hosted by the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Linnæus University, Sweden, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Aesthetics and Ecology, Copenhagen/Berlin. It is generously funded by the Seed Box. Deadline for abstracts: …

QUITE FRANKLY: It’s a Monster Conference University Club of Western Australia 18-19 October 2018 (DEADLINE EXTENDED until 7th April)

Image source: https://www.conferenceonline.com/abstract/alogin/?clear=1&warehouse_id=1423 Quite Frankly: It's a Monster Conference presented by SymbioticA and Somatechnics will be held in the University of Western Australia on the 18-19 of October 2018. 2018 marks 200 years since the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley’s “Creature” is usually conceived as a human creation, the stitched-together, tragic …