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Dearest
Posthumans,
How are you?
We hope this email
finds You well!
We are delighted to
share our November GPN
Newsletter: We hope
that You will find it
inspirational!
The Posthuman
Community is growing
world-wide,
with ever-new, diversified events
on a wide range of
topics, nourishing our
global, and local,
discussions:
Thanks for your Commitment,
Presence, and
Integrity!
Peace, Health and Much
Appreciation,
The Global
Posthuman Network
www.posthumans.org
News
NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL
POSTHUMAN NETWORK
Upcoming
Events1. LECTURE
SERIES AT EWHA
UNIVERSITY (SOUTH
KOREA): WITH
R.BRAIDOTTI,
S.L.SORGNER,
F.FERRANDO - NOVEMBER
(6-27 NOV)
2. FESTIVAL - SCHOOL
OF CYBORG (6-7 NOV)
3. PhEMATERIALISMS'
ECR NEXUS - (11 NOV)
4. PhEMINAR "MOVING
WITH THE TROUBLE WITH
Dr. BEATRICE
ALLEGRANTI" - (17 NOV)
5. FIFTH "DELEUZE AND
GUATTARI STUDIES IN
INDIA" CONFERENCE -
(11-14 NOV)
6. BOOK LAUNCH
"ABBECEDARIO DEL
POSTUMANESIMO"
(NOVEMBER 20TH)
7. RADIO SVIZZERA
ITALIANA (SWITZERLAND)
- PROGRAM "DIDEROT" -
WEEK DEDICATED TO
POSTHUMANISM (29 NOV -
4 DEC)
New
Publications (and
more...)
8. NEW PODCAST!
"BEING WINTERESTED w/
ROBIN INCE"
Call For
Papers
9. CFP: FEMINIST ART,
TECHNOLOGICAL
PRACTICES, LITERATURE,
NEW MATERIALISM,
POSTHUMANITIES (by 21
NOV)
10. CFP: NON-WESTERN
APPROACHES IN
ENVIRONMENTAL
HUMANITIES (by 15 JAN)
Post-doc Positions
11. POSTDOC POSITION:
"TECHNOLOGY AND THE
FUTURE OF WORK"
Get involved
JOINING AND
VOLUNTEERING
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| NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL
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| REMINDER:
A WAY FOR PROMOTING
YOUR EVENTS / CFPs /
NEWS:
We have create an online form
that you can use for
promoting your events through the
Newsletter of the
Global Posthuman
Network,
which currently counts
with around 1100
international members.
There is no fee to
submit. All
submissions will be
reviewed and, if found
in tune with the
posthuman turn, will
be published in our
next Newsletter.
Please, keep in mind
that the Newsletter is
bimonthly, so if you
send an event that
expires by the time we
send the Newsletter,
we will not be able to
publish it. Thanks for
your interest.
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| LECTURE SERIES WITH
R.BRAIDOTTI,
S.L.SORGNER,
F.FERRANDO -
NOVEMBER (6-27
NOV) |
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Ewha
University, Seoul
(South Korea) has
organized a series
of Invited Lectures
by the prominent
scholars in the
field of Posthuman
Studies, in order of
appearance:
1. Stefan Lorenz
Sorgner, Saturday
11/06 at 8-10 PM KST
(12-2 PM CET)
2. Rpsi Braidotti:
Saturday 11/20 8-10
PM KST (12-2 PM CET)
3. Francesca
Ferrando: Saturday,
11/27 10 AM KST
(Friday, November
11/26 8 PM EST)
For further info,
send and email to:
post...@ewha.ac.kr
Or visit the website
(in
Korean): http://posthuman.ewha.ac.kr
Zoom URL: https://ewha.zoom.us/j/94540989120 (same
one for all three
events)
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| FESTIVAL - SCHOOL OF CYBORG
(6-7 NOV) |
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The School of
Cyborg (SoC) is a
project that Dundee
Based Digital Art
Festival NEoN proposes
in a joint effort with
students from MA
Culture Criticism and
Curation from the
University of the Arts
London. The School of
Cyborg, an
international group of
MA students, will
“warm up” the city
before the festival:
they will be present
in Dundee the 6th and
7th of November 2021.
The program SoC
proposes is oriented
to tackle Dundee
communities’ digital
gaps and aims to
involve local groups
to raise consciousness
on the theme and to
provide tools to be
active and work for a
change. These groups
will be paired with
internationally
renowned digital
artists, proposing
thematic workshops
where the presence of
locals will be paired
with the effort of
artists, aiming to
enhance knowledge
creation and sharing.
The program features
workshops, talks and
roundtables to share
the results of the
workshops with the
city. This event will
also be a starting
point for NEoN’s
project of local
community wifi.
Integration and
inclusion become key
features for the
project, especially
when dealing with
difficult-to-reach
communities in the
city. To do this, the
events and the
workshops will be
designed and thought
about with the
communities involved.
For further info click
on the LINK
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| PhEMATERIALISMS' ECR NEXUS
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The Early
Career Researcher
(ECR) Nexus is a
collaborative
PhEmaterialisms effort
for doing academia
differently. We are an
educational community
that seeks to foster
connections and
collaborations between
posthuman and ‘new’
materialist scholars
in education. Although
our activities are
geared toward
supporting early
career researchers,
scholars at all career
levels, from PhD
students through
emeritus, are welcome!
Our Activities
- Monthly
virtual socials to
foster connections
between
international
scholars
- Reading
Groups to support
sense-making of key
posthuman thinkers
- Workshops and
Events focusing on
topics to support
ECRs, like writing,
publishing, and
presenting at
conferences
- Resource
curation to archive
and share texts,
videos, etc of
interest to ECRs
For questions
or to get involved,
please contact ECR
organizers Katie Strom
or Bretton Varga.
For further info click
on the LINK
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| PhEMINAR "MOVING WITH THE
TROUBLE WITH Dr.
BEATRICE
ALLEGRANTI" -
(17 NOV) |
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PhEminar 8: Moving
with the Trouble
with Dr. Beatrice
Allegranti
Developed from
the Moving Kinship
project for people
living with young
onset dementia, this
new dance film
explores how we touch
the alterity within,
the dark matter.
Moving with the
Trouble and the
transdisciplinary
PhEMaterialist
research that informs
it, reflects on
transgenerational
mourning, the bonds of
resistance, and our
infinite relationship
with the
more-than-human. In
doing so, the film
invites audiences to
tune our attention to
micro-activisms
present in movement
exchange as we show up
to collective
understandings of the
re-territorialization
of power and privilege
in more-than-human
ways.
The PhEminar will
offer brief context
before screening the
film. Following the
screening, and as a
starting point for
discussion, I will
invite PhEmaterialist
participants to attune
to their own
micro-movements as a
way of noticing and
being curious about
what bearing witness
has evoked. Please
bring paper and pens
to write and
draw!(Image credit:
Camilla Grenwell)
For further info click
on the LINK
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| FIFTH DELEUZE AND GUATTARI
STUDIES IN INDIA
CONFERENCE -
(11-14 NOV) |
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Deleuze
and Guattari Studies
in India
Collective after the
successful
completion of
Manipal, Mumbai,
Chennai and Delhi
conferences
announces its fifth
conference to be
held online from
11-14 November 2021
focusing on the
pertinent and
contemporary theme
of ‘infinite life’.
Contemporary
research both in
humanities and
social sciences
seems to be
converging on a
common point, which
is life, or more
precisely, the
“distinction between
the living and the
non-living”.
As part of it , new
analytic strategies
are mooted that
involve a wide
spectrum of
disciplines and
perspectives.
Affective turn,
ontological turn,
new materialism,
speculative realism,
postcolonial
studies, feminism,
queer and
transgender studies,
critical race
studies,
technoscience
studies, and
Anthropocene are a
few of them that
have chosen life as
their major
theoretical object.
This contemporary
development is
complemented by the
return of some old
philosophies as
well like animism
and vitalism so as
to begin their own
new experiments with
life. We also see
that the obsession
with life straying
into strange
territories that
proliferate new
versions like “beta
life”, “hypothetical
life”, “nonstandard
life”, “nonterran
life”, “unfamiliar
life”, “life as we
do not know”,
“alternative
biology”, “Life
2.0.” , and so on.
Truly life
has spread out in a
limitless cosmic
canvas. The spatial
range is astounding.
From the ocean’s
depth to astral
bodies life is being
searched for avidly.
On the other side,
new loci and
versions of life are
emerging in
astounding speed. We
need not travel to
the far end of the
universe to see the
complexities of
life. New life forms
are floating on our
own computer screens
today; a computer
program run by the
principle of
cellular automata is
deemed to be alive;
a computer virus is
as deadly as a
biological
virus. There exists
a fundamental
equivalence between
the genetic and the
computer codes.
Further info on the
conference will be
available HERE
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| "ABBECEDARIO DEL
POSTUMANESIMO" -
BOOK LAUNCH
(NOVEMBER 20TH)
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This is the
Book Launch of the
"Abbecedario del
Postumanesimo" curated
by Elisa Baioni, Lidia
Maria Cuadrado Payeras
and Manuela Macelloni.
The book has just been
released by Mimesis.
The event will bepart
of the series
Bookcity, Milan on
November 20th. The
philosophers Roberto
Marchesini and
Leonardo Caffo will
present at the event
with the curators.
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| RADIO SVIZZERA ITALIANA
(SWITZERLAND)
(NOVEMBER 29) |
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Every week, this
cultural news
broadcast includes a
space on a theme,
which is treated
through 5 different
guests, and then
merges into a more
general debate, on
Saturday morning, in
the program “Moby
Dick”.
RSI is dedicating the
week of November 29 to
the theme of the
post-human, with Francesca
Ferrando as the
first guest on the
philosophies of the
posthuman. During the
rest of the week the
program will approach
the posthuman in the
artistic, literary,
medical, legal,
ecological fields with
other guests (to be
announced).
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| NEW PODCAT! "BEING
WINTERESTED w/
ROBIN INCE" |
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Comedian Robin
Ince shares his
thoughts on the
fascinating role
science plays in our
everyday lives, how we
can avoid becoming too
dogmatic about our
belief systems, and
the incredible
importance of being
interested.
Robin Ince
is co-presenter
of the award-winning
BBC Radio 4 show, The
Infinite Monkey
Cage. He
has won the Time Out
Outstanding
Achievement in Comedy,
was nominated for a
British Comedy Award
for Best Live show,
and has won three
Chortle Awards. He has
toured his stand up
across the world from
Oslo to LA to Sydney,
both solo and with his
radio double act
partner, Professor
Brian Cox.
To access the podcast
click HERE
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| CFP: FEMINIST ART,
TECHNOLOGICA
PRACTICES,
LITERATURE, NEW
MATERIALISM,
POSTHUMANITIES
(by 21 NOV) |
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We are happy
to announce a
"Feminist Art,
Technological
Practices,
Literature, New
materialism,
Posthumanities" strand
4 at the 11th
European Feminist
Research Conference
(Milan, June 2022)
If interested, you
can apply by
Nov 21st.
Coordinators: Sibel
Yardimci, Mimar
Sinan Fine Arts
University; Federica
Timeto, Ca’ Foscari
University of
Venice; Pat Treusch,
University of
Kassel; Beatriz
Revelles Benavente,
University of
Granada; Silvia
Luraschi, University
of Milano-Bicocca.
Departing
from/drawing on
Haraway’s situated
knowledges, one of
the most important
contributions of new
materialisms to
feminisms is a
situated methodology
in which the “God
trick” (Haraway) is
challenged, and the
researching subject,
as well as the
researched object
are understood as
parts of a dynamic,
affective research
relationship. The
political and
ethical consequences
of such an approach
are paramount:
Differences are
never already there
to be represented
from the outside but
are always in the
making; each
epistemological
intervention at the
same time interferes
with the
material-semiotic
reconfigurations of
the world, it is
rather an engaged
practice that that
performs the
co-emergence of both
meaning and matter.
A selection of
presented papers
will be published in
the journal Matter:
Journal of New
Materialist
Research.
For further info
click on the LINK
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IN ENVIRONMETNAL
HUMANITIES (by
15 JAN) |
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International
Conference:
Non-Western
Approaches in
Environmental
Humanities (11–13
July 2022) organized
by The project
“Non-anthropocentric
Cultural
Subjectivity”
realized as part of
the “Excellence
Initiative –
Research University”
programme at the
University of
Warsaw. Via Zoom
worldwide.
Call for papers
(Deadline for
abstract submission:
15 January 2022)
The main aim of the
conference (which is
correlated with the
topics of the
project
“Non-anthropocentric
Cultural
Subjectivity”
realized as part of
the “Excellence
Initiative –
Research University”
programme at the
University of
Warsaw) is to
reflect on
theoretical
frameworks in
environmental
humanities which
have emerged as
alternative or
complementary to
western approaches.
We would like to
support theoretical
reflections
concerning the
relationship between
human beings and the
environment that
have been developed
in non-western
cultural contexts.
By helping to
determine the
problems crucial for
“non-western”
environmental
humanities, the
conference will also
be a starting point
for further
cooperation and
research.
In order to
apply for the
conference please
send to
nonwestern...@uw.edu.pl
Filled application
form (both for
individual papers
and pre-organized
panels) attached to
the CFP. 2. Filled
travel grant
application form (if
applicable) attached
to the CFP. All
submitted abstracts,
panel proposals, and
workshop proposals
will be peer
reviewed by the
conference
committee. Deadline
for abstracts is 15
January 2022.
Information about
accepted
presentations will
be sent by 15
February 2022.
For further info
click HERE
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"TECHNOLOGY AND
THE FUTURE OF
WORK" |
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The Applied
Ethics Center (AEC)
and the Institute for
Ethics and Emerging
Technologies (IEET)
are excited to invite
applications for a
full-time
Post-Doctoral Research
Fellowship in the
Future of Work at the
University of
Massachusetts Boston.
The post is fixed-term
for 24 months from the
date of appointment.
The Institute for
Ethics and Emerging
Technologies (IEET) is
a technoprogressive
thinktank founded in
2005 by Oxford
philosopher Nick
Bostrom and
sociologist James
Hughes. The IEET
( ieet.org), a 501c3
nonprofit registered
in Connecticut,
promotes ideas about
how technological
progress can increase
freedom, happiness,
and human flourishing
in democratic
societies. The IEET
seeks to cultivate
academic,
professional, and
popular understanding
of the social
implications of
emerging technologies,
both positive and
negative, and to
encourage responsible
public policies for
their safe and
equitable use.
The ideal candidate
will have a PhD (by
September 1, 2022) and
a publication record
in philosophy, law,
computer science, a
social scientific
discipline, or related
fields, and a
demonstrated interest
in the social,
ethical, legal and/or
economic implications
of artificial
intelligence,
employment, social
welfare and/or
technological change.
Experience conducting
interdisciplinary
research is a plus.
The closing date for
applications is
December 1, 2021.
Interviews will take
place virtually in
December of 2021 and
January of 2022. The
position starts on the
first day of the fall
semester in 2022.
Please contact dire...@ieet.org or nir.eis...@umb.edu with
questions about the
role or application
process.
For further info click
on the LINK |
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If
you are interested
in joining the
community, and /
or volunteering,
and/ or forming
regional posthuman
networks in your
area, please
email us at: NYposthuman[at]gmail.com
Thanks for connecting
and sharing your
insights and visions!
Peace, Health and Much
Appreciation,
The Global Posthuman
Network
www.posthumans.org |
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