What'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 below information was taken from the conference website.

'Death is political and performs the political. This is evident not only in death itself, but also in the dead (who can become political actors), their bodies, the process of dying (which is, amongst others, infrastructurally related to political discourse and inequalities), and bereavement (which can also become apolitical act). The political aspects of this theme extend beyond national or international political institutions (such as governments, state actors, multinational corporations, or political or religious alliances) to encompass everybody and everything that has to do with (the exercise of) power andmoralities, e.g., families, kin, neighbourhoods, friendship networks.

Our time together at DDD17 – as a short, but hopefully (partly)lasting DDD17 community – has come to a close. Over these past days, we’ve explored, listened, debated, and imagined — and we want to thank you for bringing such openness and curiosity to the theme of the Politics of Death. This may be the end of the conference, but we hope it is only the beginning of conversations on this theme. Let’s continue them in whatever ways we can — in our research, our writing, our teaching, our work, our communities. We hope you are leaving as inspired as we are.

Thanks to everybody who made this conference what is has been. A conference is made by its participants – together we were a fantastic community.'

How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?

To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:

Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. (2025) DDD17. The DeathStudies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1October 2025. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com,DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30256387

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What's the episode about?

In this episode, hear Kaylee Alexander discuss the digital humanities, being a research data librarian, visual culture, cemeteries, French cemetery laws, cemetery sculpture, ethically sound data visualisation and survival bias

Who is Kaylee?

Dr. Kaylee P. Alexander is a Research Data Librarian at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.

She holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture from Duke University and specializes in nineteenth-century visual culture, monuments, and funerary material culture.

Her research is embedded in transdisciplinary practices at the intersection of visual studies, cultural economics, sociology, and data science.

You can find a list of her publications on her website.

She is the author of A Data-Driven Analysis of Cemeteries and Social Reform in Paris, 1804–1924 (Routledge 2024).

How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?

To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:

Alexander, K. (2025) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 August 2025. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29763560

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What's the episode about?

In this episode, hear Patricia MacCormack on philosophy, death activism, veganism, antinatalism, necrosexuality, the Anthropocene, dudebros in academia, and a loving and vitalist relationship to death

Who is Patricia?

Professor Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy. She is the author of Cinesexuality (Routledge2008) and Posthuman Ethics (Routledge 2012) and the editorof The Animal Catalyst (Bloomsbury 2014), Deleuze andthe Animal (EUP 2017), Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis ofCinema (Continuum 2008) and Ecosophical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2018) and The Ahuman Manifesto: Activisms for the End of the Anthropocene.

She recently completed a Leverhulme Fellow researching and developing Death Activism and completing the monograph Death Activism for Bloomsbury (2025), which we will talk about today. She is also the author of numerus journalarticles and anthology chapters and the author of fiction.

Patricia’s photo is of her on Mary Wollstonecraft's former grave.

How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?

To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:

MacCormack, P. (2025) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 3 July 2025. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29473577

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