Cancer Ecologies

Nina Lykke, Emerita-Professor, Dr. Phil., Gender Studies, Linkoeping University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. She participated in the building of Feminist Studies in Scandinavia and Europe more broadly for many years. She is also a poet and writer, and co-founder the International Network for Queer Death Studies. Her current research focuses on posthuman eco-poetics, the queering of cancer, death, and mourning in posthuman, queerfemme-inist, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical and spiritual-material perspectives. Author and co-author of numerous monographs such as Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010), Vibrant Death (2022), Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters (2024), and co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies.

Camila Marambio, Co-director of Ecological Culture/Curator of New Perspectives at Para la Naturaleza, Boriken (Puerto Rico). Curated the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale (2022). Completed a postdoc at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, as part of the Seedbox: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (2021). Holds a PhD in Curatorial Practice from Monash University, Australia (2019). Founder of the nomadic research practice Ensayos (2010-2024) on the archipelago of Karokynka/Tierra del Fuego, at the southernmost tip of South America. Published in Third Text, Terremoto, Australian Feminist Studies, Discipline, The River Rail, Kerb Journal, among others. Co-authored Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja with Cecilia Vicuna (2019) and Cancer Ecologies with Nina Lykke (2025).