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The Posthumanities Hub Webinar: Banu Subramaniam. Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire
How have histories of colonialism and their foundational language of gender, race, sexuality, and nation shaped the language, terminology, and theories of the modern plant sciences? How and why do botanical theories remain grounded in the violence of their colonial pasts? In wrestling with these difficult origins, I develop the concept of migrant ecologies to…
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Nightly Blossoms, Tangled Roots: A Symposium on Ecological Intimacies
29–30 May 2026, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm This international symposium gathers curators, artists and researchers in a conversation about ecological intimacies and unexpected encounters between humans and nature. Drawing on Ingela Ihrman’s exhibition presently on show at Bonniers Konsthall, the symposium highlights posthuman naturecultural discussions around botany, darkness, monsters, fieldwork practices and the scientific legacy of…
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The Posthumanities Hub Reading Group 15/5
Our next reading group session will discuss Ursula Le Guin’s anti-war and environmental justice polemic, The Word for World is Forest. The book is only around 100 pages in total, so you are welcome to read it all if you wish, but please try to read the first three chapters at least (pp. 9-52). We…
