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NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL POSTHUMAN NETWORK
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CELEBRATING 10 POSTHUMAN YEARS!
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The GPN was born in 2012, We are Delighted and Grateful to be now 10 year old! Thanks to All the People who Contributed to Our Manifestations. Thanks to All Beings!
A GLOBAL CELEBRATION IS COMING SOON:
Get Ready, You are Invited!
Peace and Much Appreciation,
The Global Posthuman Network
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This Newsletter, October 2022, was kindly complied by our Editor Stefano Rozzoni. Here, you can find more info about our extraordinary Team!
REMINDER: A WAY FOR PROMOTING YOUR EVENTS / CFPs / NEWS
We have created an online form that you can use for promoting your events through the Newsletter of the Global Posthuman Network, which currently counts with around 1300 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 monthly, 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: Ethics for Artificial Intelligence with Mark Coeckelbergh (3 Oct)
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El Prof. Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh es profesor titular de Filosofía de los Medios y la Tecnología en el Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Viena, Vicedecano de la Facultad de Filosofía y Educación y expresidente de la Sociedad de Filosofía y Tecnología (SPT) . Su experiencia se centra en la ética y la tecnología, en particular la robótica y la inteligencia artificial.
Actualmente es miembro de varias entidades que apoyan la elaboración de políticas en el área de la robótica y la inteligencia artificial, como el Grupo de Expertos de Alto Nivel sobre Inteligencia Artificial de la Comisión Europea, el Consejo Austriaco sobre Robótica e Inteligencia Artificial y el Consejo Asesor Austriaco sobre Automatización. Movilidad.
En este encuentro el Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh nos contará los principales problemas éticos que el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial y su aplicación a un gran número de ámbitos de nuestra vida cotidiana han planteado en los últimos años.
For further info, click HERE
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SEMINAR: Metamorphoses. Introducing Mimetic Studies (6 Oct)
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CONFERENCE: "Pandemic Grief. Our Irresponsible Nature" (7 Oct)
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Ludwig Maximilians University Munich organizes an Interdisciplinary workshop, titled "Pandemic Grief 'Our' Irresponsible Nature. Affectability and disappointment in the pandemic and the ecological crises.
07.10.2022 10:00 Uhr – 18:00 Uhr
On site: LMU Munich, Leopoldstraße 13A, Room 042
Hybrid: Zoom: register with juliane.prade-weiss@lmu.de
For further info, click HERE
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LIVE INTERVIEW, Australian Radio Network (8 Oct)
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Francesca Ferrando is interviewed on Posthumanism, the Australian Radio Network, Today's News Talk Live, The Kristina Borjesson Show. Host: Kristina Borjesson. Recorded live. To listen, click here. |
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SEMINAR "The Posthuman Turn 2.0" (11 Oct)
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International Webinar "The Posthuman Turn 2.0"
70th Anniversary, St Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Kerala.
Keynote by Dr. Francesca Ferrando.
The programme is scheduled on 11 October 2022 in hybrid mode, with two resource persons delivering their talks offline, paper presentations offline and your session online. The seminar will have a registration and the online session will be open to the registered participants alone. We hope to upload the session on Youtube subsequently. The organizers will collect and mail to you all the queries by 5 October 2022.
For further info, click HERE |
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CONFERENCE: "Inter/Dis-connections of the Prefix ‘Post’ in Contemporary Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Studies" (19-20 Oct)
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An interesting selection of Keynote Lectures during the International Conference "Inter/Dis-connections of the Prefix ‘Post’ in Contemporary Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Studies" to be held at Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan, October 19th-20th 2022.
This event also inaugurates the Pakistan Critical Posthumanism Network: Congratulations to our dear Posthuman Pakistan and to our dear Chair Qurratulaen Liaqat.
For further info, click HERE
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FESTIVAL: Settimana Postumana (Italian Posthuman Network)
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This is a the first big project of the Rete Postumana Italiana (Italian Posthuman Network), which includes events of different kind (conferences, book presentations, roundtables, etc.) in order to celebrate the network and the works of the several people connected to it, as well as to share, create and think together.
Presenters (in alphabetic order):
Karin Andersen, Giacomo Colomba, Francesca Ferrando, Maria Impedovo, Freddy Paul Gunert, Manuela Mcelloni, Roberto Marchesini, Laura Pariani e Laura Pugno, Orsola Rignani, Stefano Rozzoni, Givanni Sabelli Fioretti, Nicola Zengiaro.
For further info, click HERE
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FORUM: Future of Morality (Oct 27-28)
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The Forum "Future of Morality" is planned in Poznan (Poland) from 27th to 28th of October, 2022.It is co-organized by SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Warsaw) and Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan).The debate will gather researchers and practitioners mainly from Poland. Among our distinguished speakers are i.e.: David Pearce, Dr. Cecile Eriksen, Dr. Francesca Ferrando and Prof. Steve Fuller.
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NEW BOOK! Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture (by Louise Westling)
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This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago. Biosemiotics reveals meaningful communication among coevolving members of the intricately connected life forms on this dynamic planet. Within this web hominins developed culture from bipedalism and meat-eating to the use of fire, stone tools, and clothing, allowing wide migrations and adaptations. Archaeology and ancient DNA analysis show how fully modern humans overlapped with Neanderthals and Denisovans before emerging as the sole survivors of the genus Homo 35,000 years ago. Their visions of the world appear in magnificent cave paintings and bone sculptures of animals, then more recently in written narratives like the Gilgamesh epic and Euripides' Bacchae whose images still haunt us with anxieties about human efforts to control the natural world.
For further info, click HERE |
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CFP: 2023 ISSRNC Conference. "After Earth? Religion and Technology on a Changing Planet"
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Hyperconnectivity and alienation simultaneously define our social lives and interactions with nature. Can the same technologies that potentially enable humans to decouple from Earth be deployed to save it? Can emerging technologies be a vehicle for positive change or religious transformation? How, if at all, do techno-solutions address the underlying cultural, social, and religious causes of global crises? Do emerging technologies fundamentally alter the human-nature relationship, or are they merely the latest version of longstanding religious or secular-scientific interpretations of the human? Is there an implied theological anthropology embedded in techno-social and techno-environmental projects? How do technologies at the horizons of planetary limits—from space exploration to renewable energy—intersect with matters of race, gender, and justice? Does a global-scale response to these interconnected, escalating crises demand a shared, common vision of the human?
We welcome proposals from scholars across the arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences, inviting all researchers broadly engaged with the nexus of religion, nature, and culture.
For further info, click HERE |
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CFP: Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture 'QUEERING NATURE'
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Interconnectivity, collaborative organisms, new environmental paradigms—over the past ten years Queer Ecologies has mined the foundations of arts and humanities discourses in the knowledge that fairer and more sustainable futures can’t be built on the legacy of technocapitalist, anthropocentric, cisgender models. More than ever before, trans and gender non-conformist perspectives, ecofeminist theories, environmental justice movements, disabilities studies, and LGBTQIA+ geographies, only to name a few, have bravely pushed epistemological boundaries while empowering those of us who have been routinely marginalized, erased, and prosecuted by governments and institutions around the world.
Over a decade has passed since the publication of the timely collection Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire edited by Catriona Sandilands and Bruce Erickson as well as Timothy Morton’s agenda-setting ‘Guest Column: Queer Ecology’. The threads that connect ecological and queer politics now appear more and more entangled when seen through the overlaying lenses of climate change, the sixth mass extinction, and the rise of social justice. For some time now, multispecies futures have been central to the work of many ground-breaking queer artists and groups like Institute of Queer Ecologies and Queernature. How have key concerns, aesthetics, methodologies, and models shifted over time, and what priorities characterize current discourses and practices?
For further info, click HERE
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CFP: Journal of Posthumanism "Posthumanities as Praxis"
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The Journal of Posthumanism is an international multilingual peer-reviewed scholarly journal that promotes innovative work to transverse the fields ranging from social sciences, humanities, and arts to medicine and STEM. In line with the efforts of creating a broad network beyond disciplinary boundaries, the journal seeks to explore what it means to be human in this technologically-saturated, ecologically damaged world, and transcend the traditional conception of the human while encouraging philosophical thinking beyond humanism.
For full consideration, please be aware of the following submission deadlines and the associated publication dates:
30 November 2022 → June 2023 issue (Vol. 3, No, 2)
31 March 2023 → October 2023 issue (Vol. 3, No. 3)
For further info, click HERE |
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CFA: Gender and Sustainability – Introducing Feminist Environmental Humanities PhD course (FAD3115)
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This electable course in the doctoral program, Art, Technology and Design (7,5 credits) is an educational effort, supported by the KTH Equality Office for the integration of knowledge on gender equity in sustainable development research, provided by the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment and the multi-university platform The Posthumanities Hub, with Tema Genus, Linköping University.
The PhD course will be held online, and combines critical and creative perspectives on gender and sustainability from the emerging field of environmental humanities as it overlaps with science, technology, humanities, art and feminist theory-practices. It explores postdisciplinary directions in sustainability from a set of positions in environmental humanities and feminist posthumanities.
Module 1 – Re-inventing nature, re-inventing methodology: 5-6 December 2022
Module 2 – Doing gender and sustainability: Practice-oriented research: 16-17 January 2023
Module 3 – Ethics in thinking practice: 20-21 February 2023
Module 4 – Gender and sustainability in new registers: Knowledge communication: 27-28 March 2023.
For further info, click HERE
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CFA: Plants and Animals. Interdisciplinary Approaches
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Editors: Susan McHugh Patrícia Vieira
Plants and Animals: Interdisciplinary Approaches aims to publish scholarly work that addresses common challenges across the fields of plant and animal studies from interdisciplinary perspectives. The series welcomes monographs and edited collections that focus and reflect upon interactions of plants, animals, and humans in innovative ways. At a time of large-scale anthropogenic species extinction, there is a pressing need to promote scholarship that can help us envision more equitable and harmonious forms of coexistence on the planet. The series therefore encourages submissions explicitly geared to build bridges not only between plant and animal studies, but also leading-edge research on other forms of life or ways of being, including fungi, lichens, algae and other microorganisms, as well as scholarship on fantasy creatures, cryptids, semi-living beings, and even non-living forms of existence. The goal is to abolish an artificially compartmentalized view of the world in order to add to the ways of knowing that are beginning to grow through the interconnections between these related fields of study. Grounded in the humanities, Plants and Animals welcomes trans-disciplinary perspectives that engage with scholarship in the social sciences and in the natural sciences.
For further info, click HERE
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PODCAT: Conscious Conversations With Nick & Nitin
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Conversations that lead to real change tend to only happen by chance; we are here to change that.
We create intentional transformational dialogue with experts in fields of coaching, psychology, science, spirituality, and more. Our listeners, “Urban Mystics”, experience powerful takeaways from each episode and are able to integrate these insights into their modern lives to improve their life’s fulfillment, purpose and trajectory.
Check out the latest Episode: EP# 15 Posthuman Awakening with Dr. Francesca Ferrando HERE
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POST-DOC: Feminist Science and Technology Studies
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The Trinity College Centre for Digital Humanities is recruiting a 2,5-year post-doctoral research fellow with expertise in (preferably feminist) science and technology studies with additional expertise in Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) or Human-RobotInteraction research. The purpose of this post is to support the development of the EU funded MOZART project through the delivery of collaborative research in the field of FSTS with an emphasis on interdisciplinary project work in robotic automation innovation.
MOZART is a research project that will deliver an interdisciplinary approach to robotic automation across academia, industry, and the public through the integration and use of FSTS perspectives and methods of (1) the interdisciplinary realization of robotic prototypes; (2) developing a framework for the qualitative evaluation and assessment of human-robot collaboration at the workplace; (3) documenting and communicating insights through a project research blog. Thus, the AHSS project work will also (4) engage in defining and monitoring the project-specific sustainability goals. Importantly, the project work will deploy tools of digital research and will pertain to critical research of digitalization processes with a focus on robotic automation.
For further info, click HERE |
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CALL FOR PEER-REVIEWERS: Journal of Ecohumanism
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The Journal of Ecohumanism is continually building its pool of peer reviewers. We seek peer reviewers with demonstrated capacities for reviewing submissions in English. Our expectations for reviewers & reviews:
- All papers will pass through a double-blind review process.
- If you are asked to review a paper, you will have two to three weeks to do so.
- Duties include evaluating essays for clarity and cogency of argument/evidence, original contribution to the field, organization, and grammatical/syntactical correctness.
- Reviewers will submit their reviews at the journal’s canvas / website with a recommendation to accept, to accept with minor revisions, to accept with major revisions, or to reject.
- Reviewers are not paid for their services, but are encouraged to list their position as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Ecohumanism on their CVs.
For further info, click HERE
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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
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