Events
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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
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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Rescheduled round-table: “More Than Human. Posthumanism, Human-Technological Relations, and Bioethics
This round-table will now take place on May 4th, 2022, 16:00 (EST). Please see the poster for how to join the meeting.
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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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Round-table: More than Human: Posthumanism, Human-Technological Relations, Bioethics
The ‘Posthumanism: Cinema Philosophy Media’ Roundtable Series presents:
MORE THAN HUMAN: Posthumanism, Human-Technological Relations, and Bioethics
March 29, 2022 @ 7:00 P.M.
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Talk by Dr. Myra Hird on Waste
Dr. Myra Hird (Queen’s University) will be giving a talk on “Waste: a Tale of Two Problems” on March 21st, 2022, 11:00-12:00 ET. This talk is jointly hosted by the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, the Sustainability, Science and Society program (SSAS) and the Posthumanism Research Institute (PRI) and will be live-streamed here.
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Decentering the Nature-Culture Divide in Diplomacy
The North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI) invites you to attend our virtual panel, Decentering the Nature-Culture Divide in Diplomacy, which carries forward the issues and debates that foregrounded our 2021 summit, Players: We Are All Practitioners. Hosted by NACDI in partnership with the Posthumanism Research Institute, our virtual event will be held on 16 February 2022 at 2:00 – 3:30 pm (ET), 1:00-2:30 pm (CT), and 11 am-12:30 am (PT).
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Roundtable on Posthumanism, Cinema, Memory
We are happy to co-host this round-table event with a special guest presentation by Dr. Anna Amza Reading. The event takes place on Monday February 28, 2022, 11:00-14:00 EDT.
What does it mean to approach memory from a critical posthumanist perspective?Read more
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Explorations in Empirical Posthumanisms (New Date!)
This diverse group of speakers apply a posthumanist lens to pressing social and environmental issues. The presentations include discussions of the entanglement of racialization, affect, and the body, and multispeciesrelationships in both Toronto and internationally.
When: Thursday, December 9, Ontario Time: 3-4:30 PM
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