THE POSTHUMANITIES HUB

The Posthumanities Hub Group Meeting
2025-03-06 13:15 - 14:30 (Europe/Paris) | Zoom
Welcome to the first The Posthumanities Hub Group Meeting of 2025! We look forward to seeing all our beloved friends again, Thursday 6th of March, at 13.15 – 14.30 (CET). Zoom link will be sent to our members via email.

The Posthumanities Hub Webinar: Embodied Symbiosis Across Time
2025-04-10 10:15 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Zoom
Dear Hub friends, warmly welcome the Posthumanities Hub Webinar “Embodied Symbiosis Across Time: Posthuman Perspectives on Human Remains, Autistic Presences, and Inhuman Futures”!
This 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.

From Posthumanist Autism to Autistic Posthumanism, with Ombre Tarragnat of Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS)

Weaving Queer Inhuman Futures: Haptic Transfigurations of the Epistolary, with Laura Larrodera of University of Zaragoza

Bog body research: anthropo(de)centrism and a ‘brown humanities’ – the bog beyond the body?, with Jenny Carey Mikkelsen of Lund University

Join us on Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=66603671384

The Posthumanities Hub Group Meeting
2025-04-10 13:15 - 14:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Zoom
Welcome to the second Hub Group Meeting of the year! We will meet on Thursday 10th of April, at 13.15 – 14.30 (CEST). Zoom link will be sent to our members via email.

Join The Posthumanities Hub Reading Group!
2025-04-11 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Zoom
The Posthumanities Hub reading group is dedicated to reading the posthumanities together. The group’s online meetings are open to all, and we use our time to engage in open discussion of critical texts from within and around the posthumanities.
We’re kicking things off with the first two chapters from Isabelle Stengers’ Making Sense in Common: Reading Whitehead in Times of Collapse (2023).
The first meeting will take place on Zoom, on Friday 11 April, between 2-4pm.
Zoom link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/2360275916?omn=66720787668
Warmly welcome!

The Posthumanities Hub Webinar: Electric Flora
2025-04-24 13:15 - 15:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Zoom
Warmly welcome to the The Posthumanities Hub Webinar “Electric Flora”, with special guests Lerin/Hystad

In 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.

The 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.

The book Electronic Flora also includes texts by scholars such as Giovanni Aloi, Michael Marder and Timothy Morton.

Bio Lerin/Hystad
Artist 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.

Join us on Thursday 24th of April at 13.15 – 15.00 (CEST)
Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=69278620903

We have never been human with our friends at MDU Västerås 9 May
2025-05-09 00:00 - 23:59 (Europe/Paris) | MDU, Campus Västerås, Västerås, Sweden
A Posthumanist STS Take to Contemporary Living and Dying 9 May at MDU in Västerås.

Key note 13.30-14.10 hrs in Room Alpha/Room Pi
Inspiration
CECILIA ÅSBERG
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies – Sweden
Storying Exposure: Posthumanities and the Promises of Cyborg Knowing
We live in troubling times in need of multiple approaches, versatile research and new
solidarities – even beyond the humanist imagination. In this keynote address, Cecilia
Åsberg explores the transformative potential of feminist posthumanities through
“cyborg knowing.” She highlights how historical technologies of gender, race, and
empire contribute to the Anthropocene crisis, or whatever we want to call our
contemporary poly-crisis, with everyday algorithms amplifying biases globally. Åsberg
argues for new knowledge integrations beyond academic confines and disciplines,
emphasizing intellectual generosity and conviviality through storytelling. By
embracing situated cyborg epistemologies, the argument is for a more inclusive and
dynamic approach to knowledge production, acknowledging our entangled realities
and complicit exposures to science, technology and art. Through compelling
narratives and case studies, she illustrates the promises and challenges of
posthumanities to STS, envisioning a future of more-than-human humanities and
epistemic environments where exposures are reimagined and stories shared.
Prof. Dr. Cecilia Åsberg is chair of Gender, Nature, Culture at Linköping University, doing
feminist theory, multispecies- and cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine in
society. Åsberg brings arts and sciences to the more-than-human humanities, and
transformative insights to people. She has pioneered posthuman gender studies and
citizen-driven environmental humanities in Sweden with a focus on environmental
embodiment and embodied environments from starting points in laboratory STS and
feminist new materialist philosophy. Åsberg is the founder and director of the extradisciplinary research group, The Posthumanities Hub since 2008, and 2013-2017 she was
the founding director of the Seed Box, the Swedish national Environmental Humanities
research programme (MISTRA-FORMAS).

We have never been humans – Mälardalen University

The Posthumanties Hub Reading Group meet up
2025-05-16 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Zoom
Dear reading group friends: For the next PH reading group session, and inspired by Isabelle Stengers, we’ll be tackling some Alfred North Whitehead — specifically, the first two chapters from The Concept of Nature (pp. 1-26). We’ll meet on Zoom on Friday 16 May, 14:00-16:00 (CEST).

Find the pdf here.
Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/my/cissi
See you there!

The Posthumanities Hub Webinar: Ongoing Song
2025-05-23 13:15 - 15:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Zoom
A very warm welcome to this beautiful The Posthumanities Hub Webinar with Maya Hey, titeled “Ongoing Song: Fermentation and working with microbes”!

In 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.
Based 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?

Join us on Friday 23rd of May at 13.15 – 15.00 (CEST)
Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=61216156908

The Posthumanties Hub Webinar: The Somatics of Resistance
2025-06-02 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Zoom
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

In 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?

When – MONDAY 2nd of June at –> 15.00 – 17.00 (CEST) <–
Where – https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=63801529913

See you there!

The Posthumanities Hub Group Meeting
2025-06-05 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | Zoom
Welcome to our final The Posthumanities Hub Group Meeting for the term! We will meet on Thursday 5th of June, at 14.00 – 15.30 (CEST). Zoom link will be sent to our members via email.

The Posthumanities Hub Reading Group meet-up
2025-06-25 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Zoom
Dears!
Our final reading group before our (well-deserved!) summer break will look at Stacy Alaimo’s Thinking as the Stuff of the World. This text is only 9 pages long but grapples with some important questions about thinking, materiality and subjectivity. We’ll no doubt have a fascinating conversation about it!

We’ll meet on Wednesday 25 June, 2-4pm (CEST).
And, as always, we’ll meet here on Zoom: https://liu-se.zoom.us/my/cissi

The Posthumanities Hub Reading Group meet-up
2025-10-24 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Zoom
Dear friends, after a lovely summer break, our Posthumanities Hub reading group is now ready to resume! We’ll next meet online on Friday, 24th October at 2pm (CEST). We’re discussing the introduction to Kandice Chuh’s The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man” — so please read pages 1-25.
Here’s our Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/66432438426?pwd=[REDACTED]
The meeting is open to all!

The Posthumanities Hub Reading Group meet-up
2025-11-28 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Zoom
Hi dears!
It’s time for another meeting with The Posthumanities Hub Reading Group! In our last reading group session, we discussed the role of aesthetics in what Kandice Chuh calls “illiberal humanisms”—a way of doing humanities “after Man”. Running with this theme, next time we’ll discuss the Introduction from Jacques Rancière’s classic The Politics of Aesthetics (pages 9-45).
We’ll meet on Friday 28th November at 2pm (CET) on Zoom: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/66432438426?pwd=[REDACTED]
Everyone is welcome!

The Posthumanities Hub Group Meeting
2025-12-11 13:30 - 15:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Zoom
Welcome to our final The Posthumanities Hub Group Meeting for the term! We will meet on Thursday 11th of December, at 13.30 – 15.00 (CET). Zoom link will be sent to our members via email.
