December 2010
Conference: The Human and its Limits
December 9-10th, 2010
University of Bergen, Norway
The objective of this conference is to address the changing notions of the human in the age of cyborgs and neuro-implants, but also to open up for longer historical views.
Doctoral course: Human-Animal Studies: Representations and Practices
December 6-10th, 2010
Uppsala University, Sweden
The course aims to introduce the growing interdisciplinary field of Human-Animal Studies that explores human-animal relations in society, science, theory and culture.
November 2010
Workshop: Nature’s Sexes – Exploring Diversity To Question Norms of Sex and Gender
November 22nd
Uppsala University, Sweden
Our starting point is the variability in sex and sexuality found among organisms, from microbes to animals and plants, how can this diversity challenge constructions of sex and gender? The aim is to question taken-for-granted assumptions of sex and sexuality in social sciences as well as biology.
Call for sessions proposal for conference: Current Issues in European Cultural Studies
November 1st
June 15-17 2011 Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS) will arrange its fourth biannual conference on cultural research in Norrköping, Sweden. A series of plenary sessions will explore the construction of place and community; the disintegrating dichotomy between culture and nature; the powers of remembering and narrating and the complex of intermedial materiality and representation.
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October 2010
Conference: Gender in Practice
October 15-16th
Nijmegen University, The Netherlands
Starting from concrete examples conference aims at thinking through the theoretical and methodological potential of this ‘practical turn’, its relation to ‘discourse’ and discursive analysis, as well as its methodological and theoretical challenges.
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May 2010
Intensive PhD-course: Posthumanities in practice: feminist perspective
May 26-27th
Open admission for PhD. students! (2,5 ECTS/hp)
Register before April 25th, 2010: cecilia.asberg@liu.se
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March 2010
Dr. Jones Irwin: Is there a philosophy of sex?
March 18th
Tema Genus Higher Seminars series
When: 13:00-15:00
Where: room Delfi, Tema Building