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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 2d

I have been vegetarian since I was a teenager. For a while I still ate organic meat, but as this is still part of the same meat industry, I quit this at some point as well. My blind spot to this day, ...

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · 5d

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DDD17: The 2025 Death, Dying and Disposal Conference - The Death Studies Podcast

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? Below is some information ...

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · 17d

New open access handbook including my chapter “Homing in on societal changes in meanings around place of death”

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CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social · Aug 29

Behind the scenes of the @asdsdeath.bsky.social awards ceremony this afternoon at @ddd17-2025.bsky.social

Congratulations to all!

A special well done to CDAS members @drrenskevisser.bsky.social and Bethan Michael-Fox for being nominated for their awesome @deathstudiespod.bsky.social

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you!!

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · Aug 27

First panel we're attending @ddd17-2025.bsky.social! Go @drrenskevisser.bsky.social go! #deathstudies

Renske Visser is seated in a cool floral dress next to her project's PI Karin Murris. There is a huge screen behind them, and the project is called 'Small Matters'.

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Dr. Kaylee Alexander - The Death Studies Podcast

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, ...

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Aug 2

Had a great time chatting with @kpalex91.bsky.social :)

The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Dr. Kaylee Alexander - The Death Studies Podcast

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, ...

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · Jul 4

New episode with Professor Patricia MacCormack on Death Activism, Philosophy, the Anthropocene, Veganism and anti-natalism and more!

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

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Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · Jun 24

Assisted Lab is hiring - please share widely!

We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position (100%) as part of the ERC/SERI Assisted Lab team at University of St. Gallen, starting September 2025.

More information here 👇

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HSG: PhD Position in Medical / Legal Humanities / Cultural Studies (m/f/d)

We welcome applicants with a strong academic background in law, legal humanities, socio-legal studies, film studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, comparative literature, or a related di...

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Jun 27

Small Matters doctoral researcher Inka Laisi wrote some reflections on this year’s @cendeathsociety.bsky.social conference on Death and Transitions ⬇️

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CDAS Conference 2025: Death and transitions

By Inka Laisi, doctoral researcher Small Matters, University of Oulu In this blog I reflect on my attendance at the CDAS (Centre for Death and Society) conference, located at the University of Bath…

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thank you @drrenskevisser.bsky.social for this important work. Not only as a poet but but as a living being, this impacts me and I am always glad to find new people to leanr from.

Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Jun 13

Presented my work about the Small Matters project and children and death Yesterday at the #CDAS20 conference- so today, day 2, I can just sit back and relax listening to other speakers ☺️

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An Educational Community Project about Multispecies Death and Dying

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Assisted dying – medical anthropolgist on the complex practical and ethical road ahead

I’ve seen just how deeply people are affected when asked to contemplate their future – or the future of someone they love.

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Jun 13

Presented my work about the Small Matters project and children and death Yesterday at the #CDAS20 conference- so today, day 2, I can just sit back and relax listening to other speakers ☺️

@cendeathsociety.bsky.social

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An Educational Community Project about Multispecies Death and Dying

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Jun 11

Looking forward to present at the @cendeathsociety.bsky.social conference tomorrow!

Fully online and still time to book

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CDAS Conference 2025 - Death and transitions - book now!

Tickets are now live for the CDAS Conference 2025 - Death and transitions

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Association for the Study of Death and Society @asdsdeath.bsky.social · Jun 4

📺📽️📚💻Hear from an amazing line up of speakers, including ASDS council members and ambassadors, in this seminar exploring images of death and grief in popular media.

Next Thurs (12 June), 11:00-13:00 BST. Online and free to book.

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III International Seminar - Images of Death and Grief in Popular Media

This seminar explores how death and grief are depicted across popular media, including film, television, literature, and digital platforms.

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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology, complicated grief, being a non-religious chaplain, hospice and loss

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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · May 28

Congrats Prof Claire Nally on the publication of the article Death is not the End, and thank you for the lovely mention of the podcast and our book chapter on @salenagodden.bsky.social Mrs Death Misses death 💙📚

Article available open access here:

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Screenshot of the article Death is not the end

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · May 28

Whilst I am not able to attend #EAPC2025 proper, I am delighted to be able to attend this pre conference seminar “Readying for End of Life in Place”

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Hand holding Purple folder with the text “This Must Be the place “ and a lanyard with my name on it

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · May 27

Currently on sale!

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Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, bas...

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · May 7

New blog! Legacy by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social is a powerful anger and thought-provoking memoir that outlines the ongoing and pervasive racism present in healthcare, and how skin colour affects health outcomes and life expectancy.

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The book Legacy, with a blue cover with a colourful stethoscope resting against a tree stump surrounded by dirt and tree branches

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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · May 5

A year ago we released this wonderful episode with Yasmin Gunaratnam on transnational dying and end-of-life care in cities, hospitality, migration and death, an anti-colonial death studies and climate crisis, the genocide in Gaza, and being an academic with ADHD

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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

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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · May 3

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Professor Claire Nally on literature, Goth, Steampunk, death memoirs, representations of dead women, death positive libraries & working in academia

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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · May 2

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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

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