We are very pleased to welcome Vanessa Freerks as the third short-term resident to join our team.
Vanessa Freerks (PhD, University of Johannesburg, South Africa) is a research fellow at the University of Fort Hare (South Africa) at the Centre For Leadership Ethics in Africa (CLEA). In line with her main research interests (consumer society, temporality, technology and death denial in western society) she has published in international peer-reviewed journals and written various reviews on books by colleagues. Her recent publications include “African conceptions of death and dying: the role of ancestors and the ‘second death’” in Philosophia, “Towards a Baudrillardian “Maleficent” Ecology: beyond intersubjective and sentimental approaches to the environment” in Environmental Philosophy and“From Mourning Mothers to Revolutionary Mothering” (Acta Academica). Her article "Imagining death otherwise: Baudrillard and cinema’s vital illusion" is forthcoming. She is the author of “Baudrillard with Nietzsche and Heidegger: Towards a Genealogical Analysis” (2021).
During her residency, Vanessa Freerks will deliver an in-person seminar on "Imagining death otherwise: Baudrillard and cinema’s vital illusion", on April 2, 2026, at 15:00 WEST in room B607 of NOVA FCSH (Av. de Berna, 26 C).
You can read the full abstract here.
