Linking back to the Winter School 2013 and the theme of posthumanism, I’d like to invite those of you working on human-animal and human-machine relations and intersections between the humanities, medicine and technoscience more broadly, to consider participating in this international conference and doctoral workshop. Further info: link

When: 4-6 June, 2015
Where: Geneva (t.b.c.), Switzerland
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 September, 2014

Guest speakers:
Jeffrey Cohen (Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
Stefan Herbrechter (Cultural Studies, Englit)
Margrit Shildrick (Gender Studies, Bioethics)
Cary Wolfe (Animal Studies, EngLit)

Stefan Herbrechter’s book on posthumanism has just been published: more

A talk on the history of time from the absolute through relativity, on clocks and other mechanisms of control, and the way these ideas were worked out and transformed in Peter Galison’s collaboration with artist William Kentridge for the installation The Refusal of Time at dOCUMENTA (13).

lecture | review of RoT