Online Gatherings
We have an ongoing series of Critical Suicide Studies Online Gatherings, where community members take turns hosting an online discussion on a topic related to CritSui.
If you wish to hear about the gatherings please sign up for our listserv HERE. If you have a suggestion of topic or wish to host one of our gatherings, please email criticalsuicidestudies@gmail.com.
Some of our online gathering have been recorded, according to the host’s preferences.
Click HERE to watch our October 2025 Gathering – The nexus between lived experience and research: tensions and opportunities. Speakers: Mike Alvarez, Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire; Chandra Ramamurthy, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne. Host: Caroline Lenette.
Next In Person Gathering
Suicide Cultures – Critical Suicide Studies Workshop. 29-30 June 2026. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Past Conferences
Critical Suicide Studies Symposium: Creating worlds worth living in (a.k.a. CritSui 4.1). 21-22 October 2022. Victoria, BC, Canada.
Building Critical Bridges: The Third Conference of the Critical Suicide Studies
Network (a.k.a. CritSui 3) 12-13 December 2018 – The University of Western
Australia, Perth, WA Australia.
Critical Suicidology 2.0 – 29th June to 2nd July 2017 – Canterbury Christ Church. University, Kent, UK
Critical Suicidology 2.0 Conference Programme
Suicidology’s Cultural Turn, and Beyond, March 19–20 2016, Vila Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic. The Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i. and The School of Social Work, Wayne State University
Organizers: Luděk Brož, Michael Kral. Committee: Ian Marsh, Daniel Münster, Jennifer White.