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Death and Law

Death and Law

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 This podcast explores death and law from a rich variety of disciplinary perspectives, including law, anthropology and philosophy. The podcast explores such issues as buried goods, data protection, dignity and memory. It forms part of a broader project in the University of Aberdeen's School of Law entitled, 'Death and Law – Interdisciplinary Explorations' and is generally sponsored by the Aberdeen Humanities Fund Staff Research Award 2024.© 2025 University of Aberdeen
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  • Digital Afterlife

    Digital Afterlife
    2025/08/04
    Abstract In this episode, we explore the emerging world of technologies that allow individuals to continue existing in digital form even after death. From grief bots and posthumous avatars to AI-enabled holograms, we examine how people are preserving voices, memories, and personalities through the use of artificial intelligence. Typically, these digital personas are built from multimodal data, including voice recordings, videos, photos, written texts, and social media footprints, collected during a person’s lifetime. After death, this data is used to simulate responses, expressions, and even personality traits. The resulting avatars can appear eerily lifelike, engaging in conversations that feel authentic, even when discussing topics the deceased never directly addressed during their lifetime.Dr Leah Henrickson, Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Dr Anna Puzio, Researcher at the University of Twente and UC Berkeley, and Dr Patricia Živković, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen, unpack pressing ethical, legal, and social questions raised in this rapidly evolving field. Whether viewed as comforting, uncanny, or controversial, these technologies are redefining our perspective on mortality and remembrance. Join us as we navigate the blurred lines between life, death, and the digital beyond.Death & Law - Interdisciplinary Explorations | School of Law | The University of Aberdeen Biographies Dr Leah HenricksonDr Leah Henrickson is Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Reading Computer-Generated Texts, published by Cambridge University Press (2021), and other peer-reviewed articles on how we understand text generation systems and output, artificial intelligence, and digital media ecosystems. Dr Henrickson also studies digital storytelling for critical self-reflection, community building, and commercial benefit, and is the author of Digital Storytelling: An Introduction, published by Polity (2025).Link to profile: https://communication-arts.uq.edu.au/profile/7352/leah-henrickson Dr Anna Puzio Dr Anna Puzio is a researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Before these positions, Dr Puzio worked in Frankfurt am Main, Vienna, Oxford, and Cambridge. Dr Puzio works at the intersection of ethics, emerging technologies, and the human-nonhuman relationship — including religion and AI — and is part of the Dutch research programme on the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies. Dr Puzio studied Catholic theology, German studies, and philosophy in Münster and Munich, and received her doctorate from the Munich School of Philosophy in the doctoral program on the anthropology of transhumanism.Link to profile: https://www.anna-puzio.com/en Dr Patricia ŽivkovićDr Patricia Živković is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen. Before joining the University of Aberdeen, she served as Head of Legal at an IT company and worked as counsel at a law firm. Her research in the intersection of technology and law primarily focuses on the regulation of biometric data, neurotechnology, and artificial intelligence. She leads the Humanity and AI Research Group at the University of Aberdeen and co-leads the project on ‘Death in Law – Interdisciplinary Explorations’.Link to profile: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/patricia.zivkovic Additional Resources: · Henrickson, L. (2023). Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots. Media, Culture & Society, 45(5), 949-966. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221147626 (Original work published 2023)· Puzio, Anna, 'AI and the Disruption of Personhood', in Philipp Hacker (ed.), Oxford Intersections: AI in Society (Oxford, online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Mar. 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.003.0016, · Puzio, Anna: When the Digital Continues After Death. Ethical Perspectives on Death Tech and the Digital Afterlife. In: Communicatio Socialis 56/3 (2023), 427–436. https://doi.org/10.5771/0010-3497-2023-3-427. Online: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0010-3497-2023-3/communicatio-socialis-comsoc-jahrgang-56-2023-heft-3?page=1 · Iglesias, S., Earp, B. D., Voinea, C., Mann, S. P., Zahiu, A., Jecker, N. S., & Savulescu, J. (2024). Digital Doppelgängers and Lifespan Extension: What Matters? The American Journal of Bioethics, 25(2), 95–110. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2416133
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  • Collective Memory

    Collective Memory
    2025/07/28
    AbstractThis episode brings together a panel of scholars to explore the concept of collective memory and its deep connections to law, identity, and the dead. The episode unpacks the contours of collective memory, the idea of a "duty of memory"—a responsibility to remember and acknowledge past violence, injustice, or trauma, which plays a key role in shaping national identity and guiding public discourse - and the role of law in shaping those memories. Dr Fransiska Louwagie (University of Aberdeen), Dr Miroslaw Sadowski (University of Strathclyde), and Professor Zeray Yihdego (University of Aberdeen), and Dr Nevena Jevremović (University of Aberdeen) reflect on how memory, law, and power intersect: Who decides what gets remembered? What role do legal systems play in shaping memory and justice? And how can literature, art, and the humanities challenge dominant narratives?This wide-ranging and thought-provoking discussion invites listeners to reflect on how societies engage with the past and with the memory of those who are no longer with us.Death & Law - Interdisciplinary Explorations | School of Law | The University of Aberdeen BiographiesDr Miroslaw SadowskiDr Sadowski is Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow since August 2023. Dr Sadowski is also Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Global Studies, Aberta University in Lisbon, Portugal; Postdoctoral Fellow at CEBRAP – Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning in São Paulo, Brazil; and Research Assistant at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Dr Sadowski is a member of the British Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), Canadian Law and Society Association (ACDS/CLSA), as well as the Richard Wagner Society of Wrocław, where Dr Sadowski serves as the Board Member responsible for International Relations, and CompaRes – International Society for Iberian-Slavonic Studies, where Dr Sadowski serves as Vice-President.Link to profile: https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/sadowskimiroslawdr/Dr Fransiska LouwagieDr Fransiska Louwagie is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone studies at the University of Aberdeen School of Language, Literature, Music, and Visual Culture. Her research combines literary studies with a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. She has in particular worked on survivor narratives and the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary Francophone fiction and bande dessinée. Her research also focuses on issues of migration, bilingualism and translation. As part of her work, Dr Louwagie has undertaken various research collaborations in the field of drama and the visual arts, particularly graphic novels, post-Holocaust art and political cartooning.Link to profile: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/fransiska.louwagie/Professor Zeray YihdegoProfessor Yihdego joined Aberdeen Law School in January 2013. He held (2015/16) a Visiting Research Fellow position with the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford and a Senior Visiting Member at Linacre College, University of Oxford. He has been researching and publishing on various aspects of public international law with emphasis on (conventional) arms control/trade, international humanitarian law, peace and security, democratic governance, development and human rights and the law of international watercourses issues relating to Africa. Professor Yihdego participates as a Principal Investigator in a 5.5 million Euro EU funded multidisciplinary research project concerning the governance of the Zambezi and Omo River basins (details here http://dafne-project.eu/) and collaborates on various projects with law experts, economists, hydrologists, environmental and political scientists and policy experts that are working in Africa, Europe and the US.Link to profile: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/zeray.yihdego/Additional resourcesHeritage and Memory Studies (PgCert), University of Aberdeen, Online Programme: https://on.abdn.ac.uk/degrees/heritage-and-memory-studies/ • Manuel Bragança and Fransiska Louwagie (eds), Ego-histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy (Palgrave 2018)• Erin Jessee and David Mwambari, ‘Memory Law and the Duty to Remember the “1994 Genocide against the Tutsi” in Rwanda’ in Elazar Barkan and Ariella Lang (eds), Memory Laws and Historical Justice: The Politics of Criminalizing the Past (Palgrave Macmillan 2022) 291–319• Sébastien Ledoux, Le devoir de mémoire : une formule et son histoire (CNRS Éditions 2016)• Fransiska Louwagie, Témoignage et littérature d’après Auschwitz (Rodopi/Brill 2020)Fransiska Louwagie and Manuel Bragança (eds), The Future of World War Two France in Academia: Contemporary Research Paradigms, Intellectual Trajectories and Challenges (Palgrave, forthcoming)• Henry Rousso, ‘French Laws for a Better Past’ in Elazar Barkan and Ariella Lang (eds), Memory Laws and Historical Justice: The Politics of ...
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  • Non-Anthropocentric Death

    Non-Anthropocentric Death
    2025/07/21
    Abstract Oxford dictionary defines anthropocentrism as a worldview that sees humans as the source of all value. As the concept of value itself is a human creation, nature has value merely as a means to the ends of human beings. As a result, legal framework evolved to legitimize and promote the view of nature as an object - as something to be exploited, dominated and controlled. In this episode, we aim to challenge this narrative and explore the boundaries and limitation of human-centred understandings of death on how we perceive loss, extinction, or degradation in non-human beings and entities such as dead forests, extinct species, or contaminated rivers.Dr Saskia Vermeylen, a Reader at Law School, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Dr Arnar Árnason, a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, and Dr Nevena Jevremović, discuss intellectual history that shaped the human relationship with nature as reflected in law, alternative ways of conceptualising that relationship (such as rights of nature and Earth Jurisprudence), and the implications such alternatives may have in challenging the legal framework in this to recognise non-human centred concepts of death.Death & Law - Interdisciplinary Explorations | School of Law | The University of Aberdeen Biographies Dr Saskia VermeylenDr Saskia Vermeylen is a Reader at the Law School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and a legal phenomenologist with over 20 years of experience working alongside Indigenous communities in Southern Africa. Saskia’s research explores law through a phenomenological and legal pluralist lens, focusing on themes of land and belonging which she studies through the lens of legal pluralism, Levinasian studies, and more recently visual anthropology. Saskia's work also explores the embodied dimensions of law through movement and performative arts. This research also intersects with Africanfuturism, Black Studies, and science fiction, and seeks to expanding the scope of legal inquiry to include arts and arts theory as a means of investigating and expressing complex legal themes. Finally, Saskia is also one of the pioneering legal theorists combining Michel Serres’s natural contract with material ecocriticism, and biosemiotics to develop a new materialist and embodied interpretation of law and the relationality between human and nonhuman agencyLink to profile: https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/vermeylensaskiadr/#personalstatementDr Arnar ÁrnasonArnar Árnason was appointed lecturer in social anthropology in the Department in September 2004. He has a B.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Iceland, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Social Anthropology from the University of Durham, England. He has carried out fieldwork in England, Japan, Iceland and Scotland. His research interests include: death, emotion, and psychotherapy and the politics thereof; trauma; subjectivities/subjection; narratives, memory and forgetting; embodiment; identity and landscape.Link to profile: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/arnar.arnason#aboutDr Nevena JevremovićDr Nevena Jevremović is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen. Her research explores the structural relationship between (private) law, power, and capital in international trade and investment.Link to profile: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/nevena.jevremovic Additional ResourcesBooks• Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (Harper & Row 1989)• Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism (Spinifex Press 1993)• Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (Bell Tower 1999)• Cormac Cullinan, Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice (Green Books 2011)• Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction (University of Virginia Press 2011)• Peter D Burdon, Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment (Routledge 2015)• Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (University of Minnesota Press 2018)• Maxine Lavon Montgomery, The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination (Bloomsbury 2021)• Margaret Davies, EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature (Routledge 2022)• Alessandro Pelizzon, Ecological Jurisprudence: The Law of Nature and the Nature of Law (Springer 2025)Journal Articles• Anna Grear, 'Deconstructing Anthropos: A Critical Legal Reflection on "Anthropocentric" Law and Anthropocene "Humanity"' (2015) 26 Law and Critique 225• Klaus Bosselmann, 'The Framework of Ecological Law' (2020) 50 Environmental Policy and Law 479Saskia Vermeylen, 'Relational Interdependence: Riffing on Margaret Davies’ EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature through the Poetics of Relations and Symbiotic Knowing' (2024) 27(4) Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 436
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