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  • 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.

     

    Register Here

     

    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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  • CFP – Special Issue of Interconnections on the “Fungal Turn” // Appel à contributions – Numéro hors série de Interconnexions sur le “Tournant Fongique”

    Friday, August 11, 2023 | By

    CFP for a Special Issue Interconnections: journal of posthumanism

    Appel à contributions pour le numéro hors-série de Interconnexions : revue de posthumanisme

    Guest Editors:  Dr. Allison Mackey and Dr. Elif Sendur

    CFP: Fungal Turn- French version to follow (le français suit) (PDF version here) 

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