Wow, we are growing as a research group! Exciting things may be lurking ahead – and challenges for extra-ordinary academics like us. This is why we work together: to support each other and do really inventive, good quality research and edgy research training across the borders of nations, disciplines and universities. Together, apart and in various constellations with other curious research partners.
Call for our first meeting this term, dears!
A warm welcome to all you group members for our first zoom meeting this term, Thursday 1 Sep, 13:15 hrs! Group members and team on location – this is who we are whom work in the closer group. Zoom link will be sent out over email.
September 1 we launch this new fall term of 2022 with a group meeting where new postdoc researchers and visiting scholars say hello, and we meet and greet and discuss our priorities and themes for the year ahead. The Posthumanities Hub research group members commit often to the group one year at the time (with parts of their research), except of course for the PhD candidates and postdocs or more senior research staff whom have longer employment contracts – and visiting scholars who are with us for shorter periods. Together we set the living agenda for online webinars this fall, applications we do best together or for other co-written efforts of research.
Thank you for making the time and the space in your schedules and hearts for the off-road activities of The Posthumanities Hub.
It is our great pleasure to welcome you all to the upcoming Posthumanities Hub and The Eco- and Bioart Lab Seminar/Webinar with Prof. Thom van Dooren (University of Sydney/University of Oslo) on “The craft of poisoning: learning not to eat cane toads“
The seminar/webinar will have a hybrid format.
When: 30th May, 13:15 – 15:00 CEST
Where: Room FAROS, Tema building, Linköping University (Campus Valla) & on Zoom. For the registration link, see below.
The craft of poisoning: learning not to eat cane toads
Abstract:
Since their introduction in 1935, cane toads have been making their way across the top half of the Australian continent. As they’ve moved, they have left a wave of death in their wake, animals poisoned by the unfamiliar toxins that toad’s carry. All efforts to eradicate toads, or even slow their advance, have failed. In recent years, however, a new set of approaches to coexistence with cane toads have begun to emerge. These approaches centre on large scale efforts to teach native species not to eat toads through a ‘conditioned taste aversion’ that is produced with the use of nauseating toxins. This paper explores the history and ethics of these multispecies pedagogical experiments. It asks how the various toxic substances that are deployed by both toads and by scientists open up new possibilities for learning, for becoming differently together, for reshaping ecosystems and shared lives, while also carrying with them significant, and often mortal, dangers.
Bio:
Thom van Dooren is Deputy Director at the Sydney Environment Institute and an Associate Professor in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney, and a Professor II in the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities at the University of Oslo. His research and writing focus on some of the many philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia UP 2014), The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (Columbia UP 2019), and A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions (MIT 2022). www.thomvandooren.org
Welcome to hybrid book launch and symposium for this exciting new collection on ecocritical methodologies (in Swedish)!
I vår kommer antologin Ekokritiska metoder ut på Studentlitteratur. Alla intresserade välkomnas till en eftermiddag där antologins författare introducerar olika ekokritiska metoder med korta föreläsningar.
Alla som är på plats i Göteborg är därefter välkomna på releasefest i LIR:s personalrum, plan 6, Humanistiska fakulteten Göteborgs universitet.
16.30 En ekokritik för framtiden går från mening till handling (Cecilia Åsberg, LiU)
16.45 Holistisk metod som ekokritiskt mål (Rikard Wingård, GU) Avslutningsord
Välkommen på mingelfest från 17.00 i LIR:s personalrum plan 6
I vår kommer antologin Ekokritiska metoder ut på Studentlitteratur. Alla intresserade välkomnas till en eftermiddag där antologins författare introducerar olika ekokritiska metoder med korta föreläsningar.
Alla som är på plats i Göteborg är därefter välkomna på releasefest i LIR:s personalrum, plan 6, Humanistiska fakulteten Göteborgs universitet.
Välkomna till seminarium och workshops kring hur miljöhumaniora som nytt ämne kan bidra till omställning och samhällsförändring. På förmiddagen ger vi en bred introduktion till ämnet med inriktning på natur/kulturarv, stadsutveckling, museer och konst. Vi kommer att exemplifiera med internationella utblickar, samt forskning i pågående projekt som tar sig an klimatfrågor på olika sätt. På eftermiddagen träffas vi igen för smakprov på kreativa workshopsövningar, de kretsar kring teman som markkänning, relationer till tid, klimatsorg, samt mellangenerationell etik.
Forskningsprojekten har anknytning till Statens historiska museer (SHM), Stockholms universitet (SU), Uppsala universitet (UU), Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) och Linköpings universitet (LiU). Seminariet arrangeras gemensamt av de båda Formas-finansierade projekten Humus economicus (SHM/LiU/KTH) och Curating Time/Seedbox (SU/UU).
Medverkande: Christina Fredengren, Janna Holmstedt, Jenny Lindblad, Malin Lobell, Caroline Owman och Karin Wegsjö.
Program: Dagen är uppdelad i moduler, så du kan vara med på allt, eller valda delar. 10.30-12.00 – Seminarium samt samtal. 12.00-13.00 – Lunch 13.00-15.30 – Tre workshops, inklusive kaffepaus. 15.30-16.00 – Gemensam avslutning.
Mer information och fullständigt program kommer inom kort!
När: 16 februari, 10.30-16.00 (CET – Stockholm). Var: Online (Zoom-länkar kommer att offentliggöras på denna sida senare). Kontakt: För frågor, skriv till christina.fredengren[at]arklab.su.se eller janna.holmstedt[at]shm.se OBS: Seminariet kommer att spelas in och sannolikt offentliggöras online, genom att medverka godkänner du detta
Welcome dear friends of the Posthumanities Hub to the Tema Genus’ Higher Seminars, the forum for scholarly conversations on and within gender studies at Linköping University!
First out this brave new year of 2022, is Dr Desirée Enlund, Wednesday 9 January, hrs 13.15 -15:00 (CET) for an all-online zoom session on…
‘We will occupy until the next election!’ – Understanding public healthcare restructuring through the lens of collective action
For the upcoming Higher Seminars, we strive to organize them as hybrid events in order to make them accessible both face to face and online. However, due to the Covid-19 situation and global uncertainty it causes, we will provide more information on the possibilities for face-to-face participation close to each HS. We look forward to seeing You at these Higher Seminars, tomorrow, or in the near future!
