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Thanks for Making a Difference in this World!
Dearest Posthumans, 
 
We hope this email finds You well!

We are happy to share our December GPN Newsletter: it is the last issue of 2021, a challenging year for many reasons, but also, a year full of insights, events and publications, which proved, once again, what a cohesive, active, and inspiring field Posthumanism is.

We hope You will find our Newsletter stimulating and that it will help you find new sources for developing your projects.

Thanks for your Commitment to the Posthuman Community worldwide and for the motivating work that you do.

Peace, Health and Much Appreciation,
The Global Posthuman Network
www.posthumans.org

News

NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL POSTHUMAN NETWORK

Upcoming Events
 
1. YOUNG RESEARCHERS' CONFERENCE: "AS A MATTER OF AFFECT" (2-3 DEC) 

2. ĀKĀŚA: A WORKSHOP ON CONTEMPORARY RETELLING & PERFORMANCE OF FOLK TALES (5, 12, 19 DEC)

Virtual Tour

3. ANABASIS. ONLINE RESIDENCY - (Virtual Tour)

Project to do not miss

4. PROJECT: ESTUDIOS POSTHUMANOS

5. PROJECT:  "POSTHUMAN SOCIETY 2021+" by ED SÖNKE SCHÄTZE

New Publications
6. NEW BOOK! "BOTANIC SPECULATIONS" edited by GIOVANNI ALOI

7. NEW BOOK! "ABBECEDARIO DEL POSTUMANISMO" edited by E.BAIONI, L.CUADRADO, M. MACELLONI

8. NEW BOOK! "ALFRED DÖBLIN: MONSTERS, CYBORGS AND BERLINERS 1900-1933" by ROBERT CRAIG

9. NEW BOOK! "POSTHUMAN FEMINISM" by ROSI BRAIDOTTI

10. NEW BOOK! "RELIGION AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE" by CALGIN MERCER and TRACY J. TROTHEN

11. NEW BOOK! "NIETZSCHE ON HUMAN EMOTIONS" by YUNUS TUNCEL

12. NEW BOOK! (PRE-ORDER): "POSTHUMAN PATHOGENESIS" by BASAK AGIN, SAFAK HORZUM

13. NEW BOOK SERIES! "POSTHUMANITIES AND CITIZENSHIP FUTURES"

Media

14. POSTHUMAN WEEK: FRANCESCA FERRANDO, ROSI BRAIDOTTI AND MANY OTHERS INTERVIEWED @RSI (RADIOTELEVISIONE SVIZZERA) 

Call For Papers (and more...)

14. CFP: "INTRACONNECTEDNESS AND WORLD-MAKING - TECHNOLOGIES, BODIES, MATTERS

15. CALL: BOOK FOR REVIEWS

16. CFP (Call for Photos) TO PROMOTE RECONNECTING WITH NATURE (deadline 31 DEC)

PhD Position

17. PHD STUDENT VACANCY FOR EXPLAINABLE AI

Get involved

JOINING AND VOLUNTEERING
NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL POSTHUMAN NETWORK
A NEW INTERN FOR THE GPN: We are glad to announce that the Global Posthuman Network will now count on the generous work of a new intern: Tara Mukund. Tara is a student and visual artist from Delhi, India, now based in Seoul, South Korea. She has engaged in academic research on the philosophy of artificial intelligence, speculative fiction, and existential posthumanism. Her work is forthcoming in the CICA Museum Youth #8 exhibition. Welcome on board, Tara! 

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 1200 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.
YOUNG RESEARCHERS' CONFERENCE: "AS A MATTER OF AFFECT" (2-3 DEC) 

The Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi hosts the Young Researchers’ Conference on As a Matter of Affect: Making Sense of Planetarity on 2-3 December 2021.

Do not miss Prof. Kathleen C Stewart's Special Keynote lecture entitled "Worlding" scheduled for 3rd December, 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM IST.

In order to register to the event, click HERE

ĀKĀŚA: A WORKSHOP ON CONTEMPORARY RETELLING & PERFORMANCE OF FOLK TALES (5, 12, 19 DEC)

Ākāśa is a workshop where we work on ways of assimilating our cultural memory into our current context. Using the vast treasury of performance rituals and methods as laid down in Natyshastra, we find the relationality between our past & explore current contexts – personal, social, political, etc. 

Through this workshop we also seek to adapt folk tales for various applications including pedagogy, therapy, business, social issues, etc. The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Janardan Ghosh.

The objective of the workshop is to connect the participant with their expressive and creative faculties and make them more confident and effortless at presenting and performing. This workshop also acts as a stepping stone for actor training.

Basics

a. The art of Listening and types of listening
b. History and philosophy of storytelling
c. Textures of storytelling
d. The art of telling – Voice and Movement; Sound and Images.

The on line module consists of live lectures, access to videos, reading materials and suggested books, assessment and certification.

Dates : Choose any one suitable batch

Sunday (most suitable for Australia/New Zealand, others may join too)

December 5, 12, 19, 2021, 2021 from 2 pm – 4:30 pm (Sydney, Australia time) 

Saturday Batch (most suitable for Americas, Canada, Europe)

January 8, 15, 22, 2022 from 5 pm – 7:30 pm (Universal Time) 

Sunday Batch (most suitable for India , Asia & Europe)

December 5, 12, 19, 2021from 5 pm – 7:30 pm (India time) i.e 11:30 am – 2 pm (Universal Time)

For more info whatsapp +91 8697919308, or click on the LINK
 

ANABASIS. ONLINE RESIDENCY - (Virtual Tour)
The residency ANABASIS inspired by Paul Celan, will feature German and Ukrainian artists working with new media. The artists are invited to deal with questions of identity and posthumanism. The resulting works was presented in November 2021.

Visit the ANABASIS Space website at this LINK 

 
Paul Celan, whose centenary was celebrated in 2020, is a crucial figure to scrutinize those tragedies, cracks and traumas that are imprinted on the collective body of humanity in the twentieth century. Based on the poetics of selected poems of Celan, the dilemma of the circular structure of identity will be connected to theoretical impulses of the present, especially those, which see the actual strength in the refusal to rearrange the material, which follow the utopia of a "matter" that is taking on the role of the fluid, the role of the speaking as the radically undisposable.
One of the main ambitions of the project is to launch and to question such models of posthumanist imagination. Core and concept for this delivers Celan's poem "Anabasis'', which represents for the philosopher Alain Badiou a certain technique of being at home in uncharted territories, in the constitutively strange of the material of a landscape, in the self-disciplined restlessness. 
10 artists will be selected for the project in equal proportions from Germany and Ukraine (relevant is the place of work and residence, not the nationality). The artists will receive a total grant of 800 EUR or an equivalent in UAH for the project phase including the production costs of their contributions. During the two-week residency phase in the second half of July, the artists are invited to participate in internal online events with selected guests. The artistic contributions will be published digitally and exclusively on the project site anabasis.space.
 
ANABASIS is organised by the NGO "Ukrainian-German Cultural Society of Chernivtsi" at the Centre Gedankendach in partnership with the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeastern Europe at LMU Munich (IKGS) and supported by the European Union under the House of Europe programme.
PROJECT: ESTUDIOS POSTHUMANOS

Check out the activities of the Estudios Posthumanos.

Estudios Posthumanos es un proyecto colectivo conformado por investigadorxs de diferentes universidades de Argentina. Su objetivo es reflexionar sobre problemáticas actuales que han ido emergiendo a fines del siglo XX y consolidándose a partir del siglo XXI en torno a la cuestión de lo posthumano. El abanico que esta denominación implica es sumamente amplio y variado e intenta anudar algunos de los giros filosóficos más importantes de los últimos tiempos, tales como el giro animal, el giro tecnológico, el giro no-humano, el giro ontológico, las perspectivas post y multinaturalistas desarrolladas por cientistas sociales y antropólogxs en torno a la cosmovisión amerindia, los nuevos colonialismos, feminismos, entre otros.

La cuestión de lo posthumano supone desplazamientos significativos respecto de los humanismos en lo que concierne a su férrea distinción de lo humano (la razón, la cultura, agencia) con el mundo natural. La afirmación de la tesis del continuum naturaleza-cultura-técnica contribuye al descentramiento de lo humano (postantropocentrismo) y de su lugar de privilegio óntico-ontológico históricamente asegurado, favoreciendo la posibilidad de pensar otros modos de la subjetividad y nuestro ser-con-otrxs ya no desde un paradigma de la semejanza, la sangre o la especie, sino desde la articulación de lo heterogéneo y desde la (imposible) reciprocidad que responde a una hospitalidad de la visitación como condición ontológica.​

PROJECT:  "POSTHUMAN SOCIETY 2021+" by ED SÖNKE SCHÄTZE
Check out the "Posthuman Society 2021+" template project, by Ed Sönke Schätzke, a B.A. Communication Design student from Berlin.

You can find the uploaded description of my project and also the link to download the assets via this bechance LINK

Together in a group of 13 students, design solutions, suggestions and thought experiments for future needs and scenarios were developed in speculative models and scenarios. The result was 26 thematic worlds, concepts and case studies - as the basis of a derived template. These works are bundled as a catalog and are available for general use. Thus, we already provide visual answers to questions that will only be asked in the future. A major semester project in SS2021 at the HTW Berlin in the communication design course under the direction of Carsten Giese.

These signs were made to be used. Feel free to download them and spread awareness for a fair community that will help humans reconnect and redefine themselves.

In case you would like to contact the author about his work, feel free to write an email to: soenkesch@web.de
NEW BOOK! "BOTANIC SPECULATIONS" edited by GIOVANNI ALOI

Ground-breaking scientific research and new philosophical perspectives currently challenge our anthropocentric cultural assumptions of the vegetal world.

As humanity begins to grapple with the urgency imposed by climate change, reconsidering human/plant relationships becomes essential to grant a sustainable future on this planet. It is in this context that a multifaceted approach to plant-life can reveal the importance of ecological interconnectedness and lead to a more nuanced consideration of the variety of living organisms and ecosystems with which we share the planet. 

In Botanical Speculations, researchers, artists, art historians, and activists collaboratively map the uncharted territories of new forms of botanical knowledge. This book emerges from a symposium held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in September 2017, and capitalizes on contemporary art’s ability to productively unhinge scientific theories and certainties in order to help us reconsider unquestioned beliefs about this living world.

For further info click HERE

NEW BOOK! "ABBECEDARIO DEL POSTUMANISMO" edited by E.BAIONI, L.CUADRADO, M. MACELLONI
Il postumanismo è molte cose. È una corrente filosofica che mette in discussione le radici umanistiche del pensiero occidentale. È una riflessione ad ampio spettro sul rapporto tra techne e realtà, sull’evoluzione delle forme umane, sull’Antropocene. È una metamorfosi del nostro modo di interfacciarci col mondo, una via per riscoprire Gaia e le molteplici alterità che la popolano. Ogni cambiamento rende necessario un nuovo vocabolario. E i concetti sono in continua rielaborazione in un’officina del pensiero come quella postumanista, che non pone limiti, non ricerca sintesi, ma si fa nomade tra pluriversi. Se il postumanismo ascrive e rielabora i termini in funzione di un diverso modo di rispondere al presente, allora quest’opera ha il compito di raccontarli. E lo fa chiamando a raccolta i più importanti nomi postumanisti italiani ed europei, che da anni animano questa corrente filosofica, allo scopo di fornire una bussola con cui orientarsi nel complesso dibattito sul futuro della nostra specie.

For further info click HERE
NEW BOOK! "ALFRED DÖBLIN: MONSTERS, CYBORGS AND BERLINERS 1900-1933" by ROBERT CRAIG

‘If you’re satisfied with yourself, beware of Döblin.’ It was with this temptation for brave souls that Günter Grass closed his tribute on the tenth anniversary of the great modernist’s death. Alfred Döblin is best known for his city masterpiece of 1929, Berlin Alexanderplatz. But the journey to the ‘Alex’ takes us along pathways both less familiar and every bit as intriguing. In the decades before his flight into exile in 1933, this medical doctor-cum-writer broke new ground both as an Expressionist storyteller and an author of experimental historical and science fiction.

Not only that, but he made radical contributions to poetics, aesthetics and nature philosophy. The focus of this innovative study, one of the first of its kind in English, is a thorny and intractable relationship that perennially fascinated Döblin: that of nature and the self. Robert Craig shows how his eclectic works before 1933 traced out an evolving dialectic between the human and the natural, and between the subject and its forms and modes of embodiment. The constellations that emerged remain as illuminating as they are unsettling and discomfiting.

Robert Craig teaches German and English literary and cultural studies at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg.

For further info on the book, click HERE

NEW BOOK! "POSTHUMAN FEMINISM" by ROSI BRAIDOTTI
In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new generation of feminist activists are continuing the struggle: these are very feminist times. But how do these and other movements relate to the contemporary posthuman condition? 

In this important new book, Rosi Braidotti examines the implications of the posthuman turn for feminist theory and practice.  She defines the posthuman turn as a convergence between posthumanism on the one hand and post-anthropocentrism on the other, and she examines their complex relationship and joint impact. Braidotti claims that mainstream posthuman scholarship has neglected feminist theory, while in fact feminism is one of the precursors of the posthuman turn, through diverse social movements and political traditions. Posthuman Feminism is an analytic and creative response to contemporary conditions and a call to action. It highlights the constraints but also the potentialities available to feminist political subjects as they confront the ever-growing injustices of sexism, racism, ecocide and neoliberal capitalism. 

This bold new text by a leading feminist philosopher will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences.

For further info, click HERE
NEW BOOK! "RELIGION AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE" by CALGIN MERCER and TRACY J. TROTHEN
We live in an age of rapid technological advancement. Never before has humankind wielded so much power over our own biology. Biohacking, the attempt at human enhancement of physical, cognitive, affective, moral, and spiritual traits, has become a global phenomenon. This textbook introduces religious and ethical implications of biohacking, artificial intelligence, and other technological changes, offering perspectives from monotheistic and karmic religions and applied ethics. These technological breakthroughs are transforming our societies and ourselves fundamentally via genetic modification, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, the merging of computer technology with human biology, extended reality, brain stimulation, and nanotechnology.

The book also considers the extreme possibilities of mind uploading, cryonics, and superintelligence. Chapters explore some of the political, economic, sociological, and psychological dimensions of these advances, with bibliographies for further study and questions for discussion. The technological future is here – and it is up to us to decide its moral and religious shape.

For further info, click HERE
NEW BOOK! "NIETZSCHE ON HUMAN EMOTIONS" by YUNUS TUNCEL

Much has been said on particular feelings that appear in Nietzsche’s works, such as pity, revenge, altruism, guilt, shame, and ressentiment. But there has not been a significant study on Nietzsche’s overall teachings on feeling and emotion. What does Nietzsche mean by feeling and the related phenomena? Out of such disparate types of feelings and disparate reflections by Nietzsche on them, can one make sense or can one speak of a theory of feelings in Nietzsche? If so, how does this theory fit with his philosophy of value? On the other hand, how do his teachings relate to some of the later concepts of his philosophy such as the overhuman, the will to power and the eternal return of the same? While the book will contextualize Nietzsche’s emotive theory in relation to other emotive theories in the history of ideas, it will also explore Nietzsche’s influence on later generations in this area.

Yunus Tuncel, Associate Teaching Professor at The New School (New York), is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle and the Editor-in-Chief of its electronic journal, The Agonist. He is the author of Complete FragmentsTowards a Genealogy of SpectacleAgon in Nietzsche, and Emotion in Sports, and the editor of Nietzsche and Transhumanism.

“Although Nietzsche is a brilliant and original philosopher of the emotions and passions there has been to date no concerted attempt to present and examine him as such. This admirable study by Yunus Tuncel goes a long way towards meeting this need and is essential reading for all scholars and readers of Nietzsche.” Keith Ansell-Pearson, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick.

For further info regarding the book, click HERE

NEW BOOK! (PRE-ORDER): "POSTHUMAN PATHOGENESIS" by BASAK AGIN, SAFAK HORZUM
This multi-vocal assemblage of literary and cultural responses to contagions provides insights into the companionship of posthumanities, environmental humanities, and medical humanities, to shed light on how we deal with complex issues like communicable diseases in contemporary times. Examining imaginary and real contagions, ranging from Jeep and SHEVA to plague, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19, Posthuman Pathogenesis discusses the inextricable links between nature and culture, matter and meaning-making practices, and the human and the nonhuman.

Dissecting pathogenic nonhuman bodies in their interactions with their human counterparts and the environment, the authors of this volume raise their diverse voices with two primary aims: to analyse how contagions trigger a drive to survival, and chaotic, liberating, and captivating impulses, and to focus on the viral interpolations in socio-political and environmental systems as a meeting point of science, technology, and fiction, blending social reality and myth. Following the premises of the post-qualitative turn and presenting a differentiated experience of contagion, this ‘rhizomatic’ compilation thus offers a non-hierarchised array of essays, composed by a multiplicity of genders, geographies, and generations.

For further info and pre-order: click HERE
POSTHUMAN WEEK! FRANCESCA FERRANDO, ROSI BRAIDOTTI AND MANY OTHERS! INTERVIEWS @RSI (RADIOTELEVISIONE SVIZZERA) 
POSTHUMAN WEEK

This week is Posthuman Week at the Radio Televisione Svizzera RSI, Program "Diderot", Lugano (Switzerland).! Many guests, such as Francesca Ferrando, Rosi Braidotti and many others!

RADIO RECORDING (IN ITALIAN)

Do not miss Francesca Ferrando's interview on posthumanism for RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera (in Italian).

The interview is available at the following LINK.
 
PRESENTATION

In questi ultimi decenni, la presenza invasiva delle tecnologie nelle nostre vite e nello sfruttamento del pianeta, sta portando a un ripensamento dei confini tra l’uomo, l’ambiente e la tecnologia. Sullo sfondo della catastrofe ambientale verso la quale stiamo correndo, e della pandemia che ormai da 2 anni impatta pesantemente sulle nostre vite, si fa strada l’impressione che il modello di un mondo dominato e sfruttato fino all’esaurimento da homo sapiens debba oggi essere profondamente ripensato, e che si debba ripensare anche il rapporto con le altre specie. Questo movimento di pensiero va sotto il nome generico di “post-umano”: e intorno ad esso ruota il nostro dossier della settimana. Ne parleremo da diversi punti di vista: filosofico, femminista, letterario fantascientifico, antropologico.

La prima ospite della settimana è Francesca Ferrando, docente della New York University: una delle grandi figure del post-umano contemporaneo: in Italia è disponibile in traduzione italiana il suo libro “Il Postumanesimo Filosofico e le sue Alterità” (tradotto per ETS da Francesca Balzano, che sarà nostra ospite domani).

NEW BOOK SERIES! "POSTHUMANITIES AND CITIZENSHIP FUTURES"
We are glad to announce that a new book series titled "Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures" which is officially approved by the press Rowman and Littlefield.

Edited by Dr. Professor, Ms. Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki the series's Advisory Board presents key scholars in the field of posthuman studies. 

Book proposals are welcomed.

Given the rapid and extensive developments in the techno-scientific sphere, there’s a need to conceive new narratives for our species and planet that extend beyond anthropocentrism. This series reflects on the possible future outcomes of humanity and defamiliarizes the mainstream narratives about how we construct, perform, and protect our identities as humans. Books in this series explore the implications of human and non-human life forms’ co-existence within our networked world. We encourage the submission of proposals that take cross-cultural and transnational approaches, foster an ongoing dialogue between academics and scholars around the world, and explore the intersection between biosphere and technosphere in a more-than-human world.

For further info, click HERE
CFP: "INTRACONNECTEDNESS AND WORLD-MAKING - TECHNOLOGIES, BODIES, MATTERS

Zeitschrift für transdisziplinäre und intermediale Kulturforschung / Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Culture Studies has organized a CFP for the second issues of TRANSPOSITIONES
 
Thematic focus of the issue: Intraconnectedness and World-making:Technologies, Bodies, Matters
 
In his 1978 book Nelson Goodman coined the term “worldmaking,” which was intended to highlight the fact that in the relationship of the “world” to its linguistic representations, for example in literature, more “worlds” are conceivable and “producible” than just the one known to us. For Goodman, such worldmaking is not just a question of the possible products of reality-forming imagination, but of performativity in the narrow sense, understood as the power of linguistic instruments of representation to actively shape the represented mode of being of things in the world. 
 
In the categories of Karen Barad’s “agential realism,” any intraconnection of the above-mentioned phenomena in the space of knowledge practices is a diffractive (re)configuration of the world: “[T]he point is not merely that knowledge practices have material consequences but that practices of knowledge are specific material engagements that participate in (re)configuring the world. Which practices we enact matter – in both senses of the word. Making knowledge is not simply about making facts but about making worlds […]” (Barad 2007). Thus, through their emphasis on the materiality of knowledge, Barad claims that world-making is akin to knowledge-making. 
 
Based on the (posthumanist) models of “world-creation” outlined above, we invite contributions that address the following questions:
- autoperformativity of knowledge production and its textual representations,
-  scientific knowledge models in the humanities,
-  anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric knowledge practices in the past and at present,
- entanglement of the not-only-human world and technology,
- animals and technologies / animals as technologies from a cultural-historical perspective,
- literary utopias and dystopias,
- technologization of the bodily,
- material and (auto)poietic matter of body and gender,
- body inscriptions and gender performances.
 
Proposals for contributions in German or English (max. 300 words) with title, abstract and short biographical details should be sent by January 10, 2022 to: transpositiones@uw.edu.pl
 
TRANSPOSITIONES is a new interdisciplinary biannual peer-reviewed journal correlated with the topics of the project “Non-Anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivity” realized as part of the Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Warsaw primarily oriented towards interdisciplinary publications addressing issues of posthumanist theories of the late anthropocene. It is published by the German publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (imprint of BRILL Deutschland GmbH).

CALL: BOOK FOR REVIEWS
Two journals are currently looking for people interested in reviewing new publications.

The Journal of Posthumanism has available an array of new books to be reviewed, including:

Agin, B., & Horzum, S. (Eds.). (2022). Posthuman pathogenesis. Contagion in literature, arts, and media. Routledge. 

Sorgner, S. L. (2022). We have always been cyborgs. Digital data, gene technologies, and an ethics of Transhumanism. Bristol University Press.

Alcaraz, A.Ł. (2021). Are cyborgs persons? An account of futurist ethics. Palgrave Macmillan. 

Baelo-Allué, S., & Calvo-Pascual,  M. (Eds.). (2021). Transhumanism and Posthumanism in twenty-first century narrative. Routledge.

Braidotti, B. (2021). Posthuman feminism. Polity Press.

For book review queries, please email us at jp-books@tplondon.com.

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The Journal of Ecohumanism has also an array of titles available for reviews, including:

Shyam, V., Eggermont, M., Hepp, A. (Eds.). (2022). Biomimicry for Aerospace. Technologies and Applications. Elsevier. 

Eggermont, M., Shyam, V., Hepp, A. (Eds.). (2022). Biomimicry for Materials, Design and Habitats. Innovations and Applications. Elsevier. 

Slovic, S., Rangarajan, S., Sarveswaran V. (Eds.). (2022). The Bloomsbury Handbook to Medical-Environmental Humanities. Bloomsbury.

Matei, A., Moraru, C., Terian, A. (Eds.). (2022). Theory in the “Post” Era. A Vocabulary for the Twenty-First-Century Conceptual Commons. Bloomsbury. 

For book review queries, please email us at journalofecohumanism@gmail.com.

CFP (Call for Photos) TO PROMOTE RECONNECTING WITH NATURE (deadline 31 DEC)

A team of Brock University researchers is encouraging photographers of all skill levels to get behind the lens to help generate conversations around nature and sustainability.

The call for photos is part of the Beyond Sustainability: Radical Transformation Through System Thinking research project, led by Brock University’s Liette Vasseur and co-Principal Investigator Christine Daigle.

The goal of the photo project is to develop a visual, global representation of the way people perceive the natural world around them to promote a more sustainable future where humans, plants and animals share an equal place in the world.

Members of the Brock community and broader public are invited to submit photographs that highlight different ways of reconnecting with nature. Each photo requires a brief, one- or two-sentence description that explains the image and how it represents the vision of going “beyond sustainability” for a more interconnected world.

The photos will be compiled into a public mosaic that will be showcased as part of the ongoing research project, and all perspectives and skill levels are welcome.

Photos can be uploaded here until Dec. 31, but the deadline may be extended to ensure as many entries can be received as possible. Questions can be directed to the Beyond Sustainability research team at ebsresearch@brocku.ca

For further info click HERE

PHD STUDENT VACANCY FOR EXPLAINABLE AI

Personalized Explainable AI for Decentralized Agents with Heterogeneous Knowledge (EXPECTATION) is funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council Of Turkey in the framework of CHIST-ERA multi-lateral research program.

We plan to develop models and mechanisms to reconcile sub-symbolic, symbolic, and semantic representations leveraging on the agent-based paradigm. In particular, the proposed approach combines inter-agent, intra-agent, and human-agent interactions to benefit from both the specialization of ML agents and the establishment of agent collaboration mechanisms, which will integrate heterogeneous knowledge/explanations extracted from efficient black-box AI agents. The project includes the validation of the personalization and heterogeneous knowledge integration approach through a prototype application in the domain of food and nutrition monitoring and recommendation, including the evaluation of agent-human explainability, and the performance of the employed techniques in a collaborative AI environment.

Job Description 

We are looking for a PhD or Postgraduate student to work together on the following fields:

  • Recommendation systems
  • Argumentation
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Semantic reasoning
  • Data governance
  • Human-robot interaction

We expect you to actively participate in the following tasks:

  • Conducting high-quality research within the project
  • Presentation of research findings at workshops and conferences
  • Publication of scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals
  • Collaborate strongly with all consortium partners
  • Participate actively in joint EXPECTATION activities

For more information about vacancy, you can contact Dr. Reyhan Aydoğan, Assistant Professor (reyhan.aydogan@ozu.edu.tr).

For official applications, please fill out the following application form: https://tinyurl.com/OZUExpectation

For further info, click HERE
WANT TO BE INVOLVED?
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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