October 27, 2026
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET
Attend virtually: Contact [email protected] to register.
Articles by author: Zixuan Liao
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Online Panel: (Un)Designing Posthuman Futures of AI
September 29, 2026
Tuesday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM EST
Speakers: Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (University of Toronto) | Heidi Biggs (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Matt Ratto (University of Toronto)
Moderator: Çağdaş Dedeoğlu (Yorkville University & The Posthuman Lab)
Blurb: Long-dominant paradigms that are rooted in anthropocentrism, Enlightenment rationality, and techno-solutionism are proving inadequate for addressing the challenges ahead in AI system design efforts. This online panel examines the entanglements of posthumanism, sustainability, and AI, exploring what it means to design AI systems in a way that is ecologically attuned, ethically distributed, and socially just and beyond those dominant paradigms in an era of planetary crisis and socio-technical complexity. The panel explores how responsibility might be reconceptualized to account for distributed agency, multispecies interdependence, and the material-discursive entanglements of human and nonhuman actants and examines the implications of this shift for AI-related industries. The panel will also engage the concept of agentic AI—systems that participate in shaping outcomes through semi-autonomous, relational, or co-constitutive dynamics.
Supporting orgs: The Posthuman Lab | Posthumanism Research Institute | Yorkville University
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Movie Screening: Ghost in the Machine
Date and Time
Monday, September 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM EDT
Location
Marilyn I. Walker Theatre
Join us for the movie screening!
The Posthumanism Research Institute hosts Film Screening: “Ghost in the Machine,” dir. Valerie Veatch
“Ghost in the Machine delivers a thought-provoking takedown of Techno-Fascism. Valerie Veatch’s exploration of the eugenicist roots and colonial and anti-environmental reality of the A.I. arms race…tells the tale of a society that has lost its moral and humanitarian bearing at the behest of techno-oligarchs, amalgamating our own labor to keep us divided.” (Oliver Jones, The Observer)
Co-sponsored by the Social Justice Research Institute, History Department, and PACHRED
Free entry. No on-site parking.
Trailer available here.
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Livestream Talk by Çağdaş Dedeoğlu: Dark Green Religion Meets the Posthuman
Monday| May 25, 2026
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
attend virtually: LIVESTREAM LINK
(https://www.youtube.com/live/nQcunXpBH2k)
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Digital Memory Agents in the Canadian Anthropocene: A Posthumanist Roundtable
March 6, 2026 | 10:30 am – 1:30 pm EST
BSIA Room 142, Balsillie School of International Affairs
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INTERVIEW: 10 YEARS OF POSTHUMANISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE!
The Posthumanism Research Institute was founded in December 2015. In celebration of our ten year anniversary, the current director and associate directors interviewed Christine Daigle, the founder and first Director of the PRI. What motivated you to found this institute? What did you envision? How has it changed over the years? What do you think are the most important things for the field to be addressing? Please visit our YouTube page to view this interview.
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PRI Roundtable 2026. Competing and Contrasting Conceptions of the Anthropocene: In Search of Unity
Monday, January 26, 2026
attend virtually: LIVESTREAM LINK
Please join our four speakers — Martin Head and Francine McCarthy (Brock University), Stefan Herbrechter (Heidelberg University), and Hannah Spector (Independent Scholar) — for an exciting Posthumanism Research Institute event!
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Live stream talk by Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki
Color Pluralism: A Posthumanist Approach to the Color Narratives of Ancient and Modern Greek Lyric Literature
December 5, 2025
10:00 a.m. EST, Friday
attend virtually: LIVESTREAM LINK
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2024-2025 PRI Reading Group Talk: Saito Responds: Marx and Degrowth
May 5, 2025 | 12:00–2:00 PM EST
attend virtually: LIVESTREAM LINK
The Posthumanism Research Institute is excited to announce an upcoming talk as the culmination of a reading group held throughout the year. Kohei Saito, author of Marx in the Anthropocene, will be joining us to discuss the intersections of Marxism and degrowth!
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A collaborative online talk between Dr. Lorena Rojas-Parma and Dr. David Edward Tabachnick
February 28, 2025
10:00 am EST
attend virtually: LIVESTREAM LINK
This is a collaborative talk by Dr. Lorena Rojas-Parma, followed by a response from Dr. David Tabachnick. Join us online!
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