At the Hub on location at Linköping University, Sweden, we welcome applications from PhD-students and scholars from all over – to share in and contribute to our vibrant research environment. We offer our guests office space, a chance to present their work to an international community of very human and more-than-human humanities scholars (in a webinar), limited supervision, strange encounters, and a setting of intellectual generosity.
During 2024 we have hosted for instance German scholar Hannah Link, working on social robots, Finnish postdoc Kaisa Kortekallio and her mutant narratives in speculative ecologies, Dutch PhD-student Tamalone van den Eijnden, working on the practice, politics, and poetics of commoning, Fatemeh Gholami with her work on environmental storytelling, Italian scholar Camilla Bernava, working on the ecological perspectives in Donna Haraway’s thought, and we welcomed artist-in-residence Amanda Selinder for her extended period of work on Campus Valla, Linköping University.
Spring 2025
Jenny Carey Mikkelsen
Jenny Carey Mikkelsen is currently a second-year PhD student in Archaeology at Lund University, researching the ‘bog body phenomenon’ at the intersections of archaeology, environmental humanities, posthumanism and more-than-humanism. Her doctoral research explores topics like the creation and perpetuation of narratives, the portrayal of these remains as a specific phenomenon, the perception of the bog and the human-bog relationship through time, and the centring of the human and the human body in the phenomenon in general. During her stay with the Posthumanities Hub, Jenny is exploring the idea of a ‘brown humanities’ and what an anthropo(de)centric approach to the bog body phenomenon could look like in practice, as a research area within an inherently anthropocentric discipline.
Ombre Tarragnat is a PhD student in gender studies and philosophy at Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis. Their doctoral research explores the intersection of neurodiversity and animality. It examines the co-construction of autism and animality, explores the relationships between autistic people and nonhuman animals, and offers an animal framework for neurodiversity with the concepts of ethodiversity and ethodivergence. Ombre’s work can be found in journals such as Trace: Journal of Human-Animal Studies and Minority Reports: Cultural Disability Studies. Ombre has also taught seminars such as ‘Feminist posthumanisms and new materialisms’ and ‘Feminist and queer approaches to disability and neurodiversity’.
Laura Larrodera Arcega
Laura Larrodera Arcega is a PhD student in English Studies at the University of Zaragoza, where she has been a part-time lecturer. She was granted a competitive scholarship in 2022 to continue her PhD on Bio-bots narratives in 2010s Feminist and Queer Science Fiction, where she also explores the potential benefits and problems of the association of bots with trans and nonbinary identities. She collaborates in the research group The Posthuman Wound: Subject and Agency in the North American Literature of the 21st Century.
Our dance card is full for 2025, but would you like to come visit us next year? Fill out this form and send it, together with an email where you tell us a little bit about yourself, to The Posthumanities Hub and Cecilia Åsberg.
We wish you all a very warm welcome!
