The Posthumanities Hub is always exploring new shapes and colours. Academic work can be lonesome, individualistic and competitive. We want to change that. In this incubator for more humane and more-than-human humanities, arts and sciences, we build capacity for futures in a world of many nested challenges with PhD-students, postdocs, interdisciplinarians, creators and extra-academic knowers.
Capacity building, the members of the Posthumanities Hub are community-oriented early career or senior academics, established artists, independent scholars – and all of us co-creators of the Hub. We are connecting across academic and extra-academic “genderations”, alumni collectives, networks, international advisory board members, previous guest researchers, and societal agencies, museums and organisations. In this, we are testing new grounds for academic and societal cooperation. As best we can, we try to work joyfully together across distances of disciplines, universities and societies. United by integrative approaches, “cyborg knowing” (Åsberg 2024), pluripotent critiques and more-than-human curiosities, cartographies and collaborations, we make immersive posthumanities happen – in research schools, academic and nonacademic societies, (in-field philosophy and) outreach, projects and publications, arts, sciences. All this transverality push the boundaries of interdisciplinarity, for sure, so we do it with massive doses of care and concern.
CURRENT MEMBERS (a lively list)
- Caroline Elgh (LiU – Linköping University, SE – Sweden – Hub Co-Director)
- Christina Fredengren (Stockholm University, Uppsala University, SE)
- Tuja Torvaldsson (LiU, SE – Hub- coordinator)
- Ombre Tarragnat (Université Paris 8 Vincennes, Laboratoire d’Études de Genre et de Sexualité [LEGS]- Hub Co-ordinative liason)
- Amanda Selinder – (eco artist and biologist, Hub-in-residence for Corson project with LiU, Akademiska Hus and Public Agency of Art)
- Petra Jääskeläinen (KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm)
- Anna- Kaisa Kaila (KTH, SE)
- Elin Kanhov (KTH, SE)
- Petra Lilja (Konstfack, SE)
- Janna Holmstedt (SHM – Sweden’s Historical Museums)
- Ewelien Geerts (University of Cork, IR)
- Ewelina Jarosz (UKEN Cracow, PO – Underwater Activist, Hydrosexual Art Pioneer with Górovska)
- Hannah Link (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, DE)
- Jenni Puriola (Stockholm School of Economics, SE)
- Lotten Wiklund (Umeå University – UmU, SE)
- Tobias Bharucha (independent scholar UK, previously Uppsala U)
- Paul Reich (LiU, SE)
- Siobhan Leddy (Brno University of Technology, CS)
- Dick Kasperowski (GU – University of Gothenburgh, SE)
- Jannice Käll (LU – Lund University, SE)
- Laura Gottlieb (RISE)
- Alessandra Di Pisa (artist, technoecologies, Malmstens LiU, SE)
- Robert Stasinski (artist, editor, technoecologies – DiPisaStasinski)
- Fatemeh (“Tara”) Gholami (UKEN, Cracow PO)
- Tamalone van den Eijnden (University of Twente, NL)
- Camilla Bernava (University of Naples L’Orientale, IT)
- Joanne Peers (Camissa, SA and Oulu University, FI)
- Kim Gordon (LiU, SE)
- Jesse Peterson (University of Cork, IR)
- Stoyanka (“Tanya”) Eneva (LiU, SE)
- Edyta Just (LiU, SE)
- Anna Hedberg (urban ecology artist, design pedagogy, SE)
- Francesca Brunetti (Xiamen University, China)
- Andre Holzapfel (KTH, SE)
- Anne-Marie Melster (blue art curation, We Are Ocean, SP)
- Paola Ruiz-Moltó (University Jaume, SP)
- Anna M. Drzewiecki (University of Maine, USA)
- Justyna Górowska (Wet Me Wild, AI, techno- and hydrosexuality artist, Intermedia Department of Fine Arts, PO)
- Tarsh Bates (UmU, SE)
- Jennie Tiderman-Österberg (Örebro University, SE)
- Neal Cahoon (University of Lapland, FI)
- Bob Sturm (KTH, SE)
- Andrea Petitt (SIAS, Nepal)
- Meike Schalk (KTH, SE)
- Laura Watts (Data Lab, TEMA guest professor, LiU, SE)
- Cecilia (“Cissi”) Åsberg (LiU, SE – Hub Director and founder)
- you?
Moreover, the Posthumanities Hub works as a platform for many different networks, alumni, estranged/dearly missed and previous guest researchers, other platforms and societal co-operations with a diverse range of art institutions, museums, schools and organizations for sustainable and equitable changes in society.
- Let us know if you want to re/connect with us, dear!
Acting as ambassadors for our community, we sport an extra-ordinary International Scientific Advisory Board – the most recent member is prof Pramod K Nayar, UNESCO Vulnerability Studies Chair at University of Hyderabad. We are so proud!
Environmental Justice Network, Posthumanities International Network (PIN), Gender & Sustainability-alumni, and Environmental Humanities South, these are example networks connecting us across all corners of the world.
About 15 previous PhD-graduates, 17 postdocs, 170 guest researchers have advanced academically through the Hub since 2008/2009. Postdocs of the Hub, working with Prof Cecilia Åsberg on site at LiU or at KTH, have included e.g. Astrida Neimanis, Marietta Radomska, Olga Cielemecka, Janna Holmstedt, Lina Rahm, and Jesse Peterson.
Collaborating societal partners include Statens Konstråd, Akademiska Hus, Färgfabriken, Östergötlands Museum, Sveriges Historiska Muséer, Bromma Gymnasium, Art Lab Gnesta, Stockholm University Environmental Humanities, Vetenskapsfestivalen in Göteborg, and many more…
Constantly re-inventing ourself for societal relevance, the Hub is also reimagining research leadership. Presently the Hub is directed and coordinated by this new dream team at Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies – Tema Genus (in situ), and Université Paris 8 Vincennes, Laboratoire d’Études de Genre et de Sexualité (LEGS)
