Events

  • EPTC/PRI 2024 panel – Posthumanism and the Human-technology Nexus | Call for proposals/participation

    Conference Date: June 16-18, 2024 – McGill University (Montreal)

    Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2024.

    This call for proposals/participation in an EPTC/PRI panel presents a unique opportunity to address emerging questions in the human-technology relationship. It seeks to identify dominant narratives, worldviews, and social structures that facilitate humanist tendencies. Posthumanist philosophy delves into our understanding of the human-technology nexus, fostering the creation of novel narratives about our future on this planet. This philosophy recognizes the continual influence of technology in our evolution and its crucial role in shaping our identity. In this context, the PRI is looking for proposals that utilize Posthumanism as a practical framework for an in-depth exploration of the human-technology relationship.

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  • Book Launch Event: Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy, and Art

    Join us for a thought-provoking online book launch on Saturday, December 2nd 2023, at 10:00 a.m. EST, as we unveil Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies, in Western Literature, Philosophy, and Art. Towards Theory and Practice, edited by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023).

    The book launch event will be conducted virtually on Zoom. To attend this enlightening session, please register in advance using the following link: Registration Link. Secure your virtual seat now!

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  • Livestream Talk by Evelien Geerts – September 22, 2023

    Dr. Evelien Geerts (Birmingham/Linköping) will speak on “Haunting Spectro(micro)politics: The Powers of Alt-right Memes and Critical Posthumanisms”, September 22, 2023, 15:00-16:30 (ET) 

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  • Special PRI panel at Congress

    The PRI has a special collaboration in place with EPTC (Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture) through which we hold a special panel each year. This year’s panel will take place in the morning of May 30th and will comprise presentations and interactive activities. See you at York University!

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  • Posthumanism and Pedagogy/ies Panel Discussion

    Join us on March 24, 2023, 12:00-14:00 (ET) for this live-streamed panel discussion chaired by Fiona Blaikie, Associate Director of the PRI. Link to the livestream here. For more information email Christine Daigle or Veronique Rousseau.

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  • Upcoming talk on “Posthumanism for Sustainability”

    Don’t miss this talk by Dr. Çağdaş Dedeoğlu on March 2nd, 2023. You can attend in person in PLZ 600F at Brock University or join the livestream here: https://stream.lifesizecloud.com/extension/12627650/edf0a4e1-a920-44e8-8744-5dacc2c88b7c

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  • DESMONTE – A performance and talk by Pedro Oliveira

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  • Performing Planetarity: Presentation by Joanna Zylinska on September 21st, 2022 – 1pm ET

     

    Link to Event: https://stream.lifesizecloud.com/extension/12627650/edf0a4e1-a920-44e8-8744-5dacc2c88b7c

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    ABSTRACT: This talk will present an overview of Joanna Zylinska’ performative method of working within an academic context, as a theorist and artist. Departing from the problem of the constitution of the human as both a species and a historical subject, Zylinska will use the geological probe of ‘deep time’ to analyse the emergence of the human in conjunction with the surrounding technologies. These include tools and other artefacts but also communication in its various modes, be it everyday language, storytelling, ethics, art and media. The planetary perspective of Zylinska’s work – as highlighted in the theoretical concepts and practical projects presented in her talk – finds its anchoring in the socio-political concerns of the here and now: from the ecological and economic crises through to the problem of individual and social coexistence. It is through the notion of praxis that an encounter between thinking, seeing and making in Zylinska’s work yields both a methodology and a ‘minimal ethics’. Bringing the two together, the talk will negotiate the complex set of responsibilities that need to be exercised by humans not just towards one another but also towards nonhuman beings – including planet Earth as our habitat.

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  • Posthumanism in Practice: A Talk by Dr Matthew Hayler

    Please join the Posthumanism Research Institute for our upcoming event:

    Posthumanism in Practice: A talk by Dr. Matthew Hayler,

    University of Birmingham and Series Editor for Posthumanism in Practice (Bloomsbury)

    April 21, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm (ET)

    LifeSize event link: https://stream.lifesizecloud.com/extension/12627650/edf0a4e1-a920-44e8-8744-5dacc2c88b7c

    What might we mean by posthumanism? What kinds of practice are available? What does it mean to do posthumanism?

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  • Performing Resilience / Experiences of Inequity

    Please join the PRI as we welcome artists Tarndeep Pannu and Meghan Moe Beitkis for a live stream talked entitled Performing Resilience/ Experiences of Inequity. In the talk, Pannu and Moe Beitiks will use the recently published book Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain as a jumping-off point for discussing experiences of inequality in arts and performance, and their relationship to ecologies.

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