The Death World(ing)s conference took place on Friday 10th June 2022.
The information below is for reference only. We will be sharing materials from the Conference soon, please check back for details.
In the context of ongoing global pandemic politics, war, climate disaster, coloniality, racial extractivist capitalism and exploitative working conditions, rising authoritarianism, exclusionary nationalisms and state violence, we are navigating collective grief and mourning. We are not only mourning people, places, futures, pasts, and presents but also entire species, climates and worlds of being.
For our 2022 LSE Gender conference, academics, activists and artist will think through what it might mean to engage generatively with death, grief, and mourning.
PROGRAMME
10am: Introduction and Opening Keynote
10.30-11.45am: Panel One - Queering Death
- Chair & Discussant: Ghiwa Sayegh, Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research.
- Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Thomas Jefferson University, and Wazina Zondon, Performer and writer.
When I am gone, will you mourn me?: Queer Muslim Lives and Deaths, at Home and in Exile
- Aristotelis Tokatlidis, University of Amsterdam
Blackness, Queerness and Death
- Taey Iohe, Artist and researcher, and Jonathan Dowman, Islington and UCL Hospitals
Reaching the Threshold: Doorstep, Drawer, Voice, Movement and Death
- Paul Boyce, University of Sussex, and Trude Sundberg, University of Kent
Worlding Queer Grief
12-1.30pm: Panel Two - Grief as Revolutionary
- Chair: Niharika Pandit, Department of Gender Studies LSE
- Sara Tafakori, University of Leeds
Wild intimacy, familial melancholy: Iranian ‘justice-seeking mothers’ and the affective orientation of online collectivity
- Khalid Wasim, University in Kashmir
Construction of Political Identity of ‘Mothers’ in Kashmir
- Vivienne Matthies-Boon, Radboud University
Perpetually on the Brink of Non-Existence: Sisi’s Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Death
- Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, Lake Forest College
Grieving Geographies, Mourning Waters: Human and Non-Human Intimacies in Mexico
1.30-2pm: Break
2-3.30pm: Panel Three - (Re)membering the Dead
- Chair: Tomás Ojeda G, Department of Gender Studies LSE
- E. Ege Tektaş, Middle East Technical University
Litany of Survival: Trans Resistance and Solidarity as Answer to Necropolitics
- Caitlin Biddolph, University of Sydney
Documenting the dead: Filmic representations of death, grief, and mourning at/of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Tebessüm Yılmaz, Humboldt University
“For the Love of Those Left Behind”: Loss, Grief, and Kurdish Mothers’ Resistance
- Eréndira Derbez, Department of Gender Studies LSE
The Implications of Street Art as a Protest against the Crisis of Violence in Mexico
3.30-4.30pm: Closing Roundtable
(Illustration by Landis Blair)
Accessibility:
Live captions (non-automated) will be provided during the course of this conference. LSE Gender strives to esnure our events are accessible. Please contact gender@lse.ac.uk for any queries. We will do our best to accommodate any requests.
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