This round-table will now take place on May 4th, 2022, 16:00 (EST). Please see the poster for how to join the meeting.
Rescheduled round-table: “More Than Human. Posthumanism, Human-Technological Relations, and Bioethics
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Events
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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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New play i/O by partner theatre company Post Humains on stage Nov 16 – Dec 4
Thanks to a SSHRC Partnership Engage grant, the PRI has collaborated with the Montreal theatre company Post Humains for the research-creation that led to the elaboration of their play i/O. The play is presented at the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, salle Michelle-Rossignol, from November 16 to December 4, 2021, in Montreal. For an interview with the playwright and director of the company, Dominique Leclerc, see here.
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Save the date: Upcoming talk with Dr Emily Jones on November 17, 2021
Please join the Posthumanism Research Insititute for a talk by Dr Emily Jones entitled Posthuman International Law and the Rights of Nature which will be held on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, from 10:00-11:30 am EST (via video conferencing).
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