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Television
“Sydney's 'cemetery crisis' exposed as $100k grave listed on Facebook Marketplace”, A Current Affair, Aired 20 February 2024
“Matt Okine is going to die”, ABC Catalyst, Aired 5 September 2023
“Huge block of land approved to be new cemetery in Western Sydney”, Channel 9, November 2022
“You’re Dead: Now What”, Segment on Studio 10 (Morning Television), October 21 2020
Live Segment “Sydney’s Cemetery Crisis”, Credlin: Sky News, April 17, 2021
Digging Deep into Death Technology, Segment on Studio 10 (Morning Television), October 21 2020
Does it Spark Joy? Interview on Marie Kondo & Religion, BBC World Service, January 2019.
Print Media
Gould, H. & Halafoff, A. (2024). Dying well: why Australians are turning to ‘Buddhish’ deaths. The Guardian, February 8
Halafoff, A., Smith, S. & Gould, H. (2023). Tales from the other Australia: Lanterns for the dead, and the persistence of Buddhism in the Far North ABC Religion & Ethics, September 5
Gould, H. & Allison, F. (2020). Visions of future cemeteries: 5 models and how Australians feel about them The Conversation, December 9
Kohn, T. & Gould, H. (2020). Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead, The Conversation.
Gould, H. (2016) If Pokemon Go feels like a religion, that's because it kind of is. The Guardian, July 12.
Gould, H. (2014). Exhibiting Disaster: The Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923. Collections, 15:46-52.
Radio + Podcasts
Segment “Good karma? Taylor Swift and popular Buddhism in pop music”, Soul Search, ABC RN, 22 February 2024
Live Segment on Werribee Cemetery capacity, ABC Radio Melbourne Breakfast, 15 February 2024
Live Segment, “What does it mean to die well?”, RN Drive, 8 February 2024
Live Segment, “Funeral Poverty”, ABC Melbourne, 21 November 2023
Live Segment, “Thrash it Out: Should there be a time limit on grave tenure?”, 2GB 8 November 2023
Live Segment, RN Drive, 14 June 2023
Live Segment, Afternoons, ABC Radio Melbourne & Victoria, 24 January 2023
Live Segment, Segment on “burial space shortage” 2GB with Chris O’Keefe, 23 January 2023
Live Segment, Evenings with David Astle, ABC Radio Victoria, 23 January 2023
Live Segment, “Digital Remains”, ABC NSW, April 12, 2022
Live Segment, ABC Radio Queensland, April 6, 2022
“What will your digital legacy be?”, RN Drive, April 4, 2022
Live Segment, Life Matters Talkback, ABC Radio National, March 28, 2022
Live Segment “Eco-friendly deathcare”, ABC Radio Canberra, March 18, 2022
Sunday Extra “The Roundtable”, ABC Radio National, June 6, 2021
Live Segment on “The Future Cemetery”, ABC Breakfast Radio Perth, December 16 2020
Live Segment on “The Future Cemetery”, ABC Breakfast Radio Sydney, December 15 2020
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Buddhist Ritual, The Religious Studies Project, Roundtable Podcast (September 7, 2020)
How technology is changing the way we grieve, God Forbid, ABC Radio National, September 2020
Digital Immortality, ABC Darwin, August 2019
Is there life after grief? , God Forbid, ABC Radio National, May 2019
What Happens if… I die? Joy Radio, What Happens if? Comedy Program, August 18
Your online life after death. Eavesdrop on Experts. June 20, 2018
Where did the Church do Wrong? Pokémon Go and Debate on Competition. BBC Ireland Sunday Sequence, July 2016
Invited Talks
Guest Speaker, Victorian Geriatric Medicine Training Program, August 2023
“The Tibetan Book of the Dead” Masterclass, 10 Great Books Series, University of Melbourne Arts Faculty, 2023
Keynote Speaker, Cemeteries and Crematoria Association of Victoria, Annual Conference, 9 March 2023.
Panellist, “Schools of Life and Death”, Wheeler Centre 12 October. Broadcast on Radio National as “Talking about Death” 9 November, 2022
Guest Lecture, “Death Futures”, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, February 9, 2022
Invited Panellist discussing Covid-19 & the Death Care Sector for “Death Experience Design in 2020”, Portable, November 26, 2020
Public Lecture ‘Death Tech: Redesigning Death for the 21st century and beyond’, w/ Prof Tamara Kohn, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne, November 5, 2020
Invited Speaker, The Last Hurrah Funeral Expo, Melbourne, February 2020
‘Tombstones, altars, ash: In the ruins of Japanese Buddhist death rites’. Buddhist Consumption: Excess and Waste, 23-24th May 2019, University of Copenhagen.
Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop: Religious & Cultural Heritage Amid Social & Environmental Change, University of California Berkeley, March 2019
“文化人類学から見る現代日本における供養とデザイン. Gendai nihon ni okeru kuyō to dezain (Veneration and design in contemporary Japan)” . 東洋大学Toyo University, Human Design Centre [Japanese], June 2017
‘Crisis and innovation in the Japanese Buddhist altar industry.’ Buddhism and Business, Market and Merit, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2017.
“Corpses in the Cabinet: The Museum as a Burial Ground” for the After Death [Symposium], The Ian Potter Museum, December 2016.
Networking the Ancestors: The Emergence of Digital Butsudan in Japan. Homo Sapiens, Mortality and the Internet, Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore, February 2016
“Fieldwork at Sunset: Assessing Anthropological Websites”. Ethnoforum, The University of Melbourne, 2016
Selected Conference Presentations
AAA2020 Roundtable: “Caring for the Dead in Troubling Times”, panellist, November 2020. View here
Gould, H. (2019). ‘Stood to Rest’: Vertical Burial. Death, Dying and Disposal. Bath, UK, September 2019.
Gould, H. (2018). From a ‘good death’ to a ‘calm heart’: Buddhist retailing and self-care in contemporary Japan. Life in an Age of Death: AAS 2018, Cairns
Gould, H. (2018) 捨てられるモノにみる宗教の物質性―現代日本における仏壇の事例研究―. Nanzan Institute for Religious Studies, Nanzan University. [Japanese]
Gould, H. (2017) Material mediations of the dead – as Buddhas, ancestors, antecedents, and angels – in contemporary Japan. Shifting States: AAS/ASA/ANZ Anthropological Societies Conference, The University of Adelaide, December.