Events

  • Online Panel: (Un)Designing Posthuman Futures of AI

    Wednesday, September 09, 2026 | By

    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.

     

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    Supporting orgs: The Posthuman Lab | Posthumanism Research Institute | Yorkville University

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  • Movie Screening: Ghost in the Machine

    Tuesday, September 08, 2026 | By

    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 11, 2026 | By

    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

    Monday, February 23, 2026 | By

    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!

    Tuesday, December 16, 2025 | By

    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

    Friday, December 12, 2025 | By

    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

    Monday, August 04, 2025 | By

    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

    Tuesday, April 01, 2025 | By

    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

    Thursday, January 23, 2025 | By

    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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  • Public Research Talk and Roundtable Discussion: “Digital Intimacies and Sexual Technologies”

    Monday, December 16, 2024 | By

    January 29, 2025

    12:00 pm EST

    attend virtually: Livestream Link

    How have technologies shaped the most intimate, personal, and vulnerable aspects of our lives? What impacts will they have on our bodies and relationships in the future as technologies continue to change and evolve? Join us for a panel presentation and roundtable discussion with three experts whose research focuses on exploring these questions!

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