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)

World of Matter is multimedia project providing an open access archive on the global ecologies of resource exploitation and circulation. It comprises visual practitioners and theorists conducting long-term research on material geographies, who engage ideas and practices from art, spatial culture, urbanism, anthropology, art history, cultural theory, photojournalism, activism, publishing, curating and education.
Its main initiator is Swiss artist Ursula Biemann whom some of you know from the conference Art With(out) Borders that Winter School participants Tanja Klankert and Erin Rice organized last year.
Project website: http://www.worldofmatter.net

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

A shot from the pulpit – watch guest lecturer Rosi Braidotti from Utrecht University answering the question why matter matters

Haunted by specters – watch guest lecturer Stefan Herbrechter from Coventry University explaining why he distrusts matter

Early modern time foldings – guest lecturer Michael Kempe, Director of the Leibniz Research Center and the Leibniz-Archive in Hannover, explains why Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ alternative conceptualizations of time are still inspiring today

Whom the bell tolls – listen to what postdoctoral scholar Michelle Bastian from the University of Edinburgh says about clocks

Mapping Rice - watch Elaine Gan from the University of California at Santa Cruz talking about multispecies temporalities

Living on the edge of time – PhD candidate Anna McFarlane of the University of St. Andrews suggests a utopian novel

Between the immanent and transcendent – Florian Zemmin, PhD candidate from the University of Bern, tells you whether we live in secular or post-secular times