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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub Webinar 7/5: UNSETTLED with Myra J. Hird and Erin Manning
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for this upcoming webinar! With Myra Hird\, Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University\, Canada\, and Erin Manning\, artist\, dancer and Professor of Philosophy and Cinema at Concordia University\, Montreal.
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-7-5-unsettled-with-myra-j-hird-and-erin-manning/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub Webinar 23/04: Hillevi Lenz Taguchi. The Post-Qualitative Turn and Feminist Theory
DESCRIPTION:Hillevi Lenz Taguchi\nWelcome to the next Posthumanities Hub webinar with Hillevi Lenz Taguchi\, in conversation with our very own Cecilia Åsberg. They’ll be discussing the “post-qualitative turn” in the educational sciences. Where do post-qualitative approaches intersect with feminist theory? Or with posthumanist theory? With the posthumanities? Come and ask the kindest\, most wip smart educational philosopher you have ever met\, and get learned! WELCOME 23 APRIL YOU LOT – teachers\, students\, methodology-nerds and field philosophers\, and everybody!!! \nHillevi Lenz Taguchi is Professor of Child and Youth Studies and Early Childhood Education at Stockholm University. Hillevi has a background in literature and the behavioral sciences and a PhD in Education (2001). She was promoted full professor of Education in 2011\, and recruited professor of Child and Youth Studies and Early Childhood education in 2013 at Stockholm University. Her research interests follow two trajectories: First\, a longstanding interest in praxis-based and collaborative work with preschool teachers\, children and their families in preschools to enhance preschool quality and children’s development and learning. Second\, a strong interest in philosophy\, science theory and social science methodologies. The last 20 years\, these dual and parallel interests have taken her work into theoretical developments and transgressive methodologies as part of Posthumanist\, Feminist New Materialist and Post Qualitative approaches; while simultaneously being granted funding as PI for a large-scale interdisciplinary research\, framed as a randomized control trial engaging 332 children\, their families and educators. This pedagogical intervention project entailed both neuroscience (EEG/ERP) measures of selective auditory attention\, and emergent transdisciplinary investigations with children. The project is described and discussed in an OA book coauthored with Linnea Bodén “Development and Postdevelomentalism in studies on\, to\, with\, for\, by young children” (2025)\, Palgrave Macmillan. Hillevi’s current focus is on developments of sustainable multi-methodological praxis-based research-practices\, which also feature evaluations of children’s development and learning based on evidence-based knowledge. As a consequence of the above experiences\, a specific research-interest has evolved in the shifting roles and positions of different forms of disciplinary knowledge in and outside of academia: especially knowledge that concern children’s development and learning\, which in Sweden had had consequences for both research-practices and teacher education-reforms.
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-hillevi-lenz-taguchi-the-post-qualitative-turn-and-feminist-theory/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub Webinar 15/4: Elina Bry\, 'Is the Earth Chronically Ill?' screening and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special screening of Elina Bry’s film\, Is the Earth Chronically Ill? (2025)\, followed by a Q&A with the artist. Elina’s film explores the connections between climate change and chronic illness\, and is situated in three landscapes that the artist is connected to: Scotland\, Finland and France. In their words\, “Through reflections on my own experience of chronic illness\, I explore how ecological fragility mirrors human vulnerability\, endurance\, and adaptation.” \nThe film runs at 53 minutes and is in Finnish\, English and French. \nJoin us on Zoom on 15 April 2026\, at 13.00-15.00 CET/Stockholm time. \nhttps://liu-se.zoom.us/j/61415784946?pwd=0u10UnF1XS5o4LCRWj0veZ6451f4dQ.1 \nLooking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-15-4-elina-bry-is-the-earth-chronically-ill-screening-and-qa/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanties Hub Webinar: The Somatics of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Dears! Warmly welcome to the last hub webinar of the spring term! And what a gorgeous spring we’ve had\, with a treasure trove of amazing seminars and conversations. A HUGE thank you to all our presenters and participants  \n\nIn this webinar\, “The Somatics of Resistance – Tracing out Minor Choreographies of Life-Living”\, Emma Bigé and Erin Manning explore the minor potentials of somatic practices to resist oppression. They engage with our relational and (more-than-)bodily natures to trace out minor choreographies of life-living. They explore minor gestures as lines of flight – movements that slip away from\, reconfigure\, or exceed the stratifications of whiteness\, cissexism\, and neurotypicality. How can dance or autistic perception help us attune to the more-than-human nature of the bodies and ecologies we are part of? How can somatic abolitionism help us move towards the end of systemic violence while caring for ourselves and each other in the here and now? \n\nWhen – MONDAY 2nd of June at –> 15.00 – 17.00 (CEST) <–\nWhere – https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=63801529913 \n\nSee you there!
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanties-hub-webinar-the-somatics-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub Webinar: Ongoing Song
DESCRIPTION:A very warm welcome to this beautiful The Posthumanities Hub Webinar with Maya Hey\, titeled “Ongoing Song: Fermentation and working with microbes”! \n  \n\n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Maya Hey introduces her forthcoming monograph on fermentation\, where she theorizes human-microbe relations now and in the future. Microbes are everywhere\, shaping our bodies and environments in ways that challenge what it means to be ‘human’ on a highly microbial planet. By focusing on the process of making ferments—rather than the outcomes—Hey explores the hands- on\, material practices that help shape possible futures. \nBased on ethnography at a natural sake brewery in Japan and grounded in feminist theory\, Ongoing Song examines the brewing process—its tools\, rituals\, seasonality\, and know-how—to highlight more-than-human entanglements. This brewery doesn’t add lab-grown microbes; instead\, brewers create conditions for ambient microbes to gather—specific ones\, at specific times\, in specific sequences. They must constantly adapt\, practicing what Hey calls an improvisational ethic: a way of responding to the unforeseen. She concludes by asking: what kinds of futures do we want to improvise with microbes? \n  \n\nJoin us on Friday 23rd of May at 13.15 – 15.00 (CEST) \nZoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=61216156908
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-ongoing-song/
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub Webinar: Electric Flora
DESCRIPTION:Warmly welcome to the The Posthumanities Hub Webinar “Electric Flora”\, with special guests Lerin/Hystad \n  \nIn this Posthumanities Hub webinar artist duo Lerin/Hystad will present their work focusing on the new book Electronic Flora. Central to Lerin/Hystad’s modus operandi is a principle of ecological interconnectedness that manifests the undeniable presence of more than human worlds. Their main objective is to dismantle the anthropocentric view that humans are the most perfect and intelligent species on this planet\, while inviting us to reconsider non-human intelligence and complexities as valuable diversity. In the book Lerin/Hystad documents their meetings with more than a hundred different plants through sketches\, text\, and music. Lerin connects sensors to the plants that Hystad has carefully drawn in their environment. The sensors register electrical currents that plants produce through their biological rhythms and form a communicational network with animals\, bacteria\, and fungi. \n  \nThe otherness of the non-human is by nature inexpugnable. The baseline that humans are sharing the planet with them\, at this point in its evolutional history\, entails making kin while negotiating distance. In line with the mounting environmental concerns\, Lerin/Hystad began to nurture the desire to present less mediated encounters with nature. \n  \nThe book Electronic Flora also includes texts by scholars such as Giovanni Aloi\, Michael Marder and Timothy Morton. \n  \n  \nBio Lerin/Hystad \nArtist duo Lerin/Hystad comprises Simon Torssell Lerin and Bettina Hvidevold Hystad. Since 2010\, they have been working together in the borderlands between visual art and experimental music. Lerin/Hystad have studied at the University of Arts\, Craft and Design and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm as well as at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway. During the spring of 2024 they were artists in residence in Stockholm as part of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s IASPIS programme. The duo’s work has recently been exhibited at Färgfabriken (Stockholm\, 2025)\, Konsthall C (Stockholm\, 2024)\, Atletika Gallery (Vilnius\, 2024)\, Naturkulturreservatet Marhult\, the Småland Triennial (2023)\, Härke Konstcentrum (Östersund\, 2023)\, Møre og Romsdal Kunstsenter (Molde\, 2023)\, NAIRS Contemporary Art Center (Scuol\, 2019)\, and Värmlands Museum (Karlstad\, 2019). Lerin/Hystad are also active musicians and have toured Europe\, China\, and Japan. \n  \nJoin us on Thursday 24th of April at 13.15 – 15.00 (CEST) \nZoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=69278620903
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-electric-flora/
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CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub Webinar: Embodied Symbiosis Across Time
DESCRIPTION:Dear Hub friends\, warmly welcome the Posthumanities Hub Webinar “Embodied Symbiosis Across Time: Posthuman Perspectives on Human Remains\, Autistic Presences\, and Inhuman Futures”! \nThis webinar examines the entanglement of (human and nonhuman) bodies together and with their environments across time. With our three presentations\, we will discuss posthuman perspectives on symbiosis in the ‘brown humanities’\, neurodiversity studies\, and speculative fiction. We will examine archaeological bog research beyond the anthropocentric focus on bog bodies; explore the relationships between autistic people and their more-than-human surroundings; and engage with robot-centric narratives to provide new conceptualisations of queer inhuman matter across time. \n\nFrom Posthumanist Autism to Autistic Posthumanism\, with Ombre Tarragnat of Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS) \n\nWeaving Queer Inhuman Futures: Haptic Transfigurations of the Epistolary\, with Laura Larrodera of University of Zaragoza \n\nBog body research: anthropo(de)centrism and a ‘brown humanities’ – the bog beyond the body?\, with Jenny Carey Mikkelsen of Lund University \n  \nJoin us on Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=66603671384
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-embodied-symbiosis-across-time/
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub hybrid webinar 30/1: Social sculpture\, the performative & permaculture principles
DESCRIPTION:Warmly welcome to the first The Posthumanities Hub (hybrid) webinar of 2025! \n  \n“Decolonize our minds. Becoming landscape. Through darkness  & silence. \nGylleboverket Artist group explores the relational and how to move towards an extended ecological self through working with social sculpture\, the performative and dark permaculture. \n\nSince 14 years they also run the curatorial platform Gylleboverket– an artistic resilience center at a former scrap yard in rural South Sweden. Together with the platform\, their permaculture farm – Boat in the forest\, serves as exploratory sites focusing on questions of existential resilience\, sustainable regenerative land use\, cross-disciplinary collaborations\, empowerment\, embracing diversity and being a meeting point between the international and local community. At the farm they\, among other things\, planted a 4 hectare food forest with hundreds of various nut trees and fruit\, berries and perennials\, as well as been digging a large hole in silence for one year together with the local community\, artist\, researcher and people passing by. \n\nThe artist group’s artistic processes combine permaculture with artistic methods and the transformative potential of embodied experiences\, materialization of thoughts\, storytelling through film\, installations\, reconnection and the performative. \n\nUsing the connection to the landscape and the site-specific to create new ways of sharing and developing knowledge and relations to the living world. Both with site specific social sculptures and translated into large scale participatory installations\, texts and films. \n\nThey will present their work and talk about the social sculpture that will be taking place at Linköping’s University in March and May 2025″. \n\n–> This is a hybrid webinar\, meaning that you are very welcome to join us at Linköping University\, Campus Valla\, Tema building\, Room Delphi\, as well as online on Zoom: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=65293936300\, Thursday 30th of January at 13.15 – 15.00 (CET). \n\nWe look forward to seeing you all!
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-hybrid-webinar-30-1-social-sculpture-the-performative-permaculture-principles/
LOCATION:Room Delphi\, Tema Building\, Linköping University + Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub Webinar: Contact Zones: A Masterclass in Continental Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Grande finale\, dear friends! It is time for the last webinar of this academic term\, and we go out with a bang. Curated by Ombre Tarragnat and Cecilia Åsberg\, this webinar brings intellectual stars from all corners of the world to enlighten us in a theoretical master class. Join in and brighten your December\, meet Rosi Braidotti\, Christine Daigle\, Evelien Geerts\, Stefan Herbrechter\, Marta Segarra\, Ombre Tarragnat together with Cecilia Åsberg and all the Hub team. Tune in on the 5th of December at 15.15-17.00 CET! \nJoin us at this Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=65959139400 \nNB. For those of you on location at Linköping University\, we play board games like WINGSPAN right after to celebrate!
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-contact-zones-a-masterclass-in-continental-philosophy/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk Alert,Webinar
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub Webinar 14/11: The Genders of Waves\, with Prof. Stefan Helmreich (MIT\, USA)
DESCRIPTION:It is with great pleasure that we welcome Prof. Stefan Helmreich (MIT\, USA) to our webinar series\, with a very interesting presentation on “The Genders of Waves”. Please join us on Zoom on the 14th of November at 15.00-17.00 CET! \nThe Genders of Waves \n“This paper explores the historical and symbolic gendering of ocean waves\, tracing their representation as feminine and masculine forces across Judeo-Christian thought\, Enlightenment philosophy\, and natural science. Waves are often portrayed as feminine\, embodying fluidity\, chaos\, and maternal power\, in opposition to masculine rationality and control. Yet\, they have also taken on masculine traits\, seen in mythological figures like Poseidon or biblical descriptions of Yahweh’s dominion over the sea. The paper engages with posthuman and nonhuman studies\, investigating how waves\, as hyperobjects\, blur traditional gender categories. By examining waves in literature\, theology\, and myth\, alongside contemporary feminist and queer theory\, the author suggests that waves operate as “tranimate” objects — entities that challenge and reconfigure concepts of gender\, animacy\, and materiality. Ultimately\, the paper argues that waves exemplify the fluidity of gender itself\, oscillating between forms\, and invites a deeper interrogation of how natural forces intersect with human gender ideologies.” \nStefan Helmreich is Professor of Anthropology at MIT and author of Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas as well as A Book of Waves. \nZoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=68920190737
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-14-11-the-genders-of-waves-with-prof-stefan-helmreich/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub webinar 5/11: Texturing values: Cyborg\, Literary and Place-Based Readings of Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Dears! \nDo not miss out on this incredible webinar with our three magnificent guest researchers; Camilla Bernava (UniOr\, IT)\, Fatemeh Gholami (UKEN\, PO) and Tamalone van den Eijnden (UTwente\, NL). It takes place on Zoom (link below)\, at 13.15-15.00 CET on Tuesday 5th of November. Enjoy! \n  \nMaps and Portraits of Nature Itself: Notes for a cyborg reading of the history of ecology (Camilla Bernava) \n“Concepts from ecology permeate contemporary public discourse and serve as powerful metaphors shaping our understanding of nature. However\, the scientific field of ecology has often been undervalued as a critical area of inquiry\, even though its foundational concepts have\, not innocently\, contributed to fostering an attitude of mastery over nature. This paper brings together insights from the history and philosophy of science\, environmental humanities\, and feminist political philosophy to critically examine the ecosystem — a concept widely regarded as fundamental in ecology —through a cyborg perspective. The ecosystem is interpreted as a material and semiotic knot that has shaped a new image of nature within ecological discourse\, playing a role in the technoscientific turn that\, in non-innocent ways\, has challenged the binaries inherited from modernity. In particular\, the paper explores the political implications of how the concept of the ecosystem transcends the nature/culture dichotomy\, demonstrating how a cyborg perspective offers an alternative approach to overcoming this divide. This approach also allows for the resituation and contextualization of the cyborg figure\, arguing for its relevance and usefulness in contemporary debates within the environmental humanities”. \n  \nExploring Ecospace: Intersections of Values\, Identity\, and Environment in Literature (Fatemeh Gholami) \n“The concept of ecospace\, as it pertains to spaces imbued with values and care\, is pivotal in understanding how literary works reflect socio-economic and environmental dynamics. In this exploration\, ecospace will be analyzed through close readings of selected texts\, focusing on how authors depict space and place as integral components of human experience and identity. Ecospace transcends mere physical locations; it embodies the intricate relationships between individuals\, communities\, and their environments. This notion aligns with the idea that capital constructs new subjectivities\, suggesting that spaces are not just backdrops but active participants in shaping human narratives and identities. By examining literary representations of ecospace\, we can uncover the underlying values that inform characters’ interactions with their surroundings\, revealing a tapestry of care\, conflict\, and connection. Through a close reading of passages that describe various spaces\, this study will highlight how authors utilize landscape and setting to reflect broader socio-economic issues and personal struggles. The language employed in these texts often challenges traditional notions of space\, urging readers to reconsider the significance of place in their lives. As we confront the complexities of contemporary crises\, it becomes essential to engage with the nuanced language surrounding ecospace\, moving beyond outdated terminologies to embrace a more dynamic understanding of our environments”. \n  \nTowards commons-friendly modes of translating and registering values land (Tamalone van den Eijnden) \n“Today\, the Lutkemeerpolder\, a 43 hectare piece of fertile land in the city of Amsterdam\, is a terrain of competing visions of how its future could look like\, a food park or an industrial business park. These visions are entangled with different conceptions of valuing land and making this value legible. In current conversations within the field of urban agriculture\, there is an endorsement of translating the multiple socio-ecological values of land into ‘added values’\, turning them into add-ons to ongoing enclosure and financialization. They do not serve to make the case for urban agriculture and protect of the socio-ecological relationalities that it encompasses\, because as ‘added values’\, they can be easily translated back into the logic of financialization while being conceived as separate from the land itself. This problem begs the question\, how can the value of land be translated in ways that resists dynamics of enclosure and further financialization of land? In this presentation\, I turn to various place-based relational practices within the Lutkemeerpolder and reflect on how they open up avenues for translating values ‘forth’ into a logic of valuation that is commons-friendly. More specifically\, I will examine speculative artistic practices of mapping biodiversity otherwise\, daily practices of noting ordinary socio-ecological relations of land from a farmer or citizen science perspective\, and festive occasions during which those socio-ecological relations that cannot be grasped are celebrated with farmers and harvesters”. \n  \nWarmly welcome to this veritable smorgasbord of critical and creative research! \nZoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=63418072078
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-5-11-texturing-values-cyborg-literary-and-place-based-readings-of-ecologies/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:The Posthumanities Hub Webinar 26/9: From Birdsong to Deepfakes – Attending to Challenges for Music in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the first The Posthumanities Hub webinar of the Fall 2024! It will take place on Thursday 26 September at 13.15-15.00 hrs CET on Zoom \, with our dear Dr. Elin Kanhov (KTH). (Image credit: Evelina Jonsson/Azote) \nElin says: “In this webinar\, I attend to two major challenges of the 21st century – climate change and the technological advancements of artificial intelligence – and how music is affected by and responds to these challenges. Although seemingly widely different aspects of the world we live in today\, these two challenges can be understood as results of the same political\, socio-cultural\, and technological developments that we have experienced in the past half a century or so\, tied together by late capitalism\, globalisation\, and neoliberal culture. \nThroughout history\, Western art music has drawn inspiration from nature\, and nature has been conceptualised in music differently depending on the ideologies of the time. Today\, contemporary composers engage with nature in music with the constant presence of climate change and environmental issues\, which creates incentives to affirmatively explore the complex workings of nature and more-than-human relationships through their music. Turning to music and AI\, the technological advancements seen today in this field are in many perspectives disruptive. Music made with or by AI poses threats to copyright and intellectual property\, streaming platforms are swamped with spam music\, and AI risks homogenising musical creativity and aesthetics. Still\, AI also provides the potential to explore identities\, create new entanglements between individuals and collectives\, and transform human-technological agency in the creative process. \nTying together music\, nature\, and AI\, this talk takes you through a journey of birdsong\, outdoor percussion performance\, nonhuman data ethics in sound ecologies\, and audio-visual deepfake technologies. Through a posthumanist methodology\, I explore how we can think with music to understand these entangled assemblages of the more-than-human world. \nAs a preparatory reading for this seminar\, feel free to read the paper by myself and our fellow co-hubber Petra Jääskeläinen\, “Data Ethics and Practices of Human-Nonhuman Sound Technologies and Ecologies”\, linked below.” \nBio: Elin Kanhov is a researcher and musicologist working with perspectives from the feminist posthumanities\, environmental humanities\, critical theory\, and poststructuralist philosophy. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in AI Music Studies in the ERC-funded project Music at the Frontiers of Artificial Creativity and Criticism (MUSAiC) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm\, Sweden. \n\nThe research project MUSAiC at KTH: https://musaiclab.wordpress.com/\nJääskeläinen\, P.\, & Kanhov\, E. (2024). Data Ethics and Practices of Human-Nonhuman Sound Technologies and Ecologies. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10756. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.10756\nDoctoral thesis: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-216328\n\nZoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=66375358037
URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-26-9-from-birdsong-to-deepfakes-attending-to-challenges-for-music-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Development Goals\, Precarity and Literature LIVE!
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URL:https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/sustainable-development-goals-precarity-and-literature-live/
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