Picturing Grief Exhibition Talk (1) Attend the exhibition outside of public opening hours, and hear from some of the artists involved.

You can see the #PicturingGrief exhibition when the gallery is closed to the public and attend a free talk on May 6th.

Book for 1pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985816597...

Book for 2pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985817842...

More: www.projectinggrief.com/pg-exhibition

#York #Grief #DyingMattersWeek

Exhibition info and more events here: projectinggrief.com/pg-exhibition

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Grief Has Many Voices: Hand Embroidery Workshop Join textile artist Hayley Mills-Styles for this workshop and create a hand embroidered response to the University of York grief survey.

As part of our #PicturingGrief exhibition during #DyingMattersWeek, @hmillsstyles.bsky.social will run a free embroidery workshop on 6th May. Hayley will show you how to use fabric and thread to share a story using collected responses from our Grief Survey: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986417039...

Picturing Grief Exhibition Reception Celebrate the opening of the exhibition with artists and grief practitioners from York and surrounding areas.

The opening reception for Picturing Grief / the exhibition, will be on May 3rd at 3pm. Free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985810017...

Exhibition info and more events here: projectinggrief.com/pg-exhibition

#DyingMattersWeek
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I was barred from my father’s funeral. It made me rethink grief Novelist Sofka Zinovieff goes in search of an alternative goodbye

"Few people like funerals. My father loathed them. Fear can lead some of us to try to hide from death. But being denied the right to attend my father’s cremation showed me how much we need a medium for mourning."

@sofkazinovieff.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com:

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Louise Richardson is an invited speaker at this year's @aristotsoc.bsky.social Joint Session. She will be responding to Michael Cholbi (@thatwhichischolbi.bsky.social) in a symposium on Devotion and the Opacity of Grief.

sites.google.com/view/2026-jo...

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Projecting Grief x University of York presents Picturing Grief / the exhibition Six artists respond to the Philosophy Department's Grief Survey + daily exhibition, talks and creative workshops For opening times and more information visit: https://www.projectinggrief.com/pg-exhibition 4-10 May 2026 Thin Ice Press Peasholme Green York YO1 7PW

In Picturing Grief / the exhibition, six artists respond to our Grief Survey.

Running during #DyingMattersWeek (4-10 May) in collaboration with Projecting Grief.

Info: www.projectinggrief.com/pg-exhibition

@hrcyork.bsky.social @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social

Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

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'Ecological Grief as a Shared Emotion' by @pfvelasco.bsky.social and Louise Richardson is now out and open access in Emotion Review.

Ecological grief is frequently claimed to be a shared emotion, and this paper attempts to substantiate such claims.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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"Can Philosophy Help People Who Are Grieving?" Matthew Ratcliffe (author of Grief Worlds) YouTube video by The Philosopher

Can philosophy help people who are grieving? In this short clip from @philosopher1923.bsky.social, Matthew Ratcliffe suggests that it can, and in various ways:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JuN...

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Julie Rugg - Funerals From an Expert Perspective YouTube video by Louise Richardson

Julie Rugg's public lecture 'Funerals From an Expert Perspective', discussing a project which aimed to understand what elements of a funeral carry long-term meaning for the people involved in arranging, participating and attending them: youtu.be/9fK0Y0WpbLY

Katherine Shear - Introduction To Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy YouTube video by Louise Richardson

In this public lecture, Katherine Shear introduces 'Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy', a short-term therapy designed to address impediments and facilitate adaptation to loss: youtu.be/qgH3kd7UDbQ?....

Edith Steffen - Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: Insights from Research and Grief Therapy Practice YouTube video by Louise Richardson

Here's another of our public lectures, this one by Edith Steffen, on continuing bonds in bereavement. She focusses particularly on how continuing bonds may become the focus of grief therapy and counselling. youtu.be/JBOl5mzJDfQ?...

Tasia Scrutton - How C.S. Lewis’ Theology Affected His Experience of Grief YouTube video by Louise Richardson

In December 2021, Tasia Scrutton came to talk to us about how C.S. Lewis' theology affected his experience of grief. You can watch her lecture here: youtu.be/3Mdk37H7OYc

Latest Philosophy Bites. Sam Scheffler on grief philosophybites.com/podcast/samu...

Project members Matthew Ratcliffe and Louise Richardson discuss grief over non-death losses including involuntary childlessness in 'Grief over Non-Death Losses: A Phenomenological Perspective' - passion-journal.org/article/view...

Jody Day - The Disenfranchised Grief of Involuntary Childlessness YouTube video by Louise Richardson

In March 2021 we were pleased to welcome Jody Day (@gatewaywomen.bsky.social) to speak to us about The Disenfranchised Grief of Involuntary Childlessness. Watch the recording: youtu.be/7aG_D_yw7sQ?...

Rupert Read - How Eco-Grief Will Help Us Save Ourselves YouTube video by Louise Richardson

Another video from our public lecture series:
@rupertread.bsky.social, 'How Eco-Grief Will Help Us Save Ourselves'. youtu.be/Gxtxlgb5hV0

Delighted for our department colleague Mike Stuart!

Dennis Klass - Continuing Bonds in Bereavement YouTube video by Louise Richardson

Some of our public lectures from 2021 are available to watch on Youtube. Here's Dennis Klass giving an introduction to the Continuing Bonds model of grief: youtu.be/uLONT975cGY?...

Matthew Ratcliffe will be talking about 'The Unacknowledged Aspects of Grief' at this
@griefcentrebris.bsky.social online seminar series. Matthew's talk will be on June 23rd, 1-2pm. www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...

International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying will be holding its sixth biennial conference June 9-11, 2026 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. The deadline for abstract submissions is 3 November 2025.
www.philosophyofdeath.org/sixth-bienni...

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I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!

Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky

'The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief': newly published graphic novel on grief by Carol Tyler.

5th Workshop on Philosophy of Emotions The School of Philosophy at Zhejiang University is happy to invite submissions for our 5th Workshop on Philosophy of Emotions, dedicated to the theme of grief, to be held on June 5th, 2026. We welcome...

<Please circulate!> Call for abstracts, deadline 28 Feb: 5th workshop on philosophy of emotions, Zhejiang University, 5 June. The topic is grief -- honoured to be the keynote speaker! @griefyork.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...

Feeling Haunted by Loss: Reflections on the Phenomenology of Possibility Descriptions of feeling haunted in an emotional way are widespread. It is doubtful that the relevant experiences are reducible to any combination of established emotion categories, such as regret, re...

Experiences of feeling 'haunted' by loss are common but under-explored. In this new paper, York's Matthew Ratcliffe argues that they involve continuing to experience possibilities as foreclosed:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Our friends over at York St John University are running a project researching the efficacy of online bereavement groups. If you'd be interested in taking part in their next 10 week online support group you can self-refer here: www.yorksj.ac.uk/working-with...

Ecological Grief as a Shared Emotion - Pablo Fernandez Velasco, Louise Richardson, 2025 There is a growing interdisciplinary effort to understand the emotional dimensions of the climate crisis. A central focus in this line of research is ecological...

Louise Richardson and @pfvelasco.bsky.social's paper 'Ecological Grief as a Shared Emotion' is now published in Emotion Review!

The paper assesses (and ultimately endorses) the claim that grief felt in relation to ecological losses is a shared emotion.

doi.org/10.1177/1754....

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An encompassing account of regret Philosophical attention to regret is typically focussed on the ethical issues it raises, leaving foundational questions about its objects and structure undecided. Here, these questions are at the f...

In a new paper, Louise Richardson argues that regret is a feeling of discomfort when real life seems worse than how things might (have) be(en). The account makes sense of different kinds of regret, helps us manage regret, and has interesting broader consequences. Read it here: t.ly/8_1s0