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What's Up at the Hub!
Here we share with you news about the projects we are working on and updates on various events, seminars, and workshops that are organized by the Hub. If you have any questions regarding joining us at the seminars or developing new collaborations, please feel free to contact us! Email Cecilia Åsberg
Our top news:Zoontology and Posthumanities: Feminist Introductions0pen for registration: cecilia.asberg@liu.se2 May, 13:15 to 17:00 pm Doctoral reading course, 7,5 ECTS, and examination seminar with Cecilia Åsberg and Jami Weinstein Up-coming events (more info to come):
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Moist so Moist: Art Meets Science in a Menstrual Cup
Moist So Moist is an interdisciplinary art and research project focusing on giving agency to menstruation. The project takes form through academic writing and research, written documentation, performative gestures and experimentation informed by art methodologies and is structured around a series of experiments that drive forward the investigation. In the past, an analogue database for menstrual products installed at the Feminist Materialisms conference in Copenhagen in the spring of 2012 led to a series of enquiries about the boundaries of the human bodies and pushed the project to questions of ethics bound to the disposal of body parts. ”We hadn’t anticipated how strong the menstruator’s attachment was to the blood once it was out of the body” says researcher Miriam Wistreich about the plan to reuse the collected matter in the fertilization of a menstrual garden ”One menstruator asked how she could continue following her blood and asked; ”what if I only want red peppers grown from it?” That was quite revelatory for us and led to a series of questions regarding ownership of the dispersed body and its data”. The researchers list disparate sources such as software studies, HBO series True Blood, Fluxus and performance art and ANT as inspirations for the project.
The new experiment, made in collaboration between writers and researchers Astrida Neimanis and Miriam Wistreich with Linköping University, explores the moment in which a menstruator gathers blood expelled from the body during menstruation instead of disposing of it. Using a technological device for the collection, a menstrual cup, the experiments second focus is on the entanglement of the menstruating body and menstrual technologies. The two are excited: ”we want menstruators to document their experience of collecting the flow. Miriam had this image of lots of little jars of red blood along handwritten statements, but we’ll see what happens. Maybe something completely unexpected will come out of the experiment.”.
Transdisciplinary seminars at the Gender Lab
We would like to introduce the collaborative research project located at the Hub: The Gender Lab. The Gender lab is funded by the Swedish Ministry of Education and Research to promote gender equality and gender conscious research across disciplinary boundaries. The project was successfully inaugurated in April, and now the cross-disciplinary collaborations will work develop a toolkit for social and natural scientists and cultural scholars for creating gender conscious research careers across both Linköping University and Stockholm University.
For more information, please click here
October-November 2012
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Sharon Traweek at Linköping university!
Workshop with Prof Sharon Traweek 6 November, register right away to Eva.Danielsson@liu.se
"A culture-of-no-culture? Big Science, Gender, and Glocal Perspectives"
Open LiU lecture with Prof Sharon Traweek 7 november, 13:15-15:00 Venue: Planck, in the Physics-building (appropriate as Prof Traweek has written about phycisits in her classical science study "Beam times and Life times: A World of High Energy Phyics")
Donna Haraway
30 oktober föreläser Distinguished Professor Donna Haraway på Uppsala Universitet " Staying with the Trouble: Recuperating Terrapolis" - och The Posthumanities Hub gör en kollektiv busstur! (Vill du hänga med? Anmäl dig senast 15 oktober till Tara Mehrabi eller Cissi Åsberg.
Surviving your thesis - with The Gender Lab
31 Okt på Linköpings universitet och 1 november på Stockholms universitet!
- Är du doktorand eller postdok och vill vara med? Kontakta då Linnea.Bodén@liu.se
17-20 Oktober EASST 4 S i Köpenhamn!
“Design and displacement – social studies of science and technology”
("Åh Copenhagen - söder om Sverige", som dansbandet Schytts en gång diktade vilket säkert beskriver något av denna internationella upplevelse också!)
23 Oktober: LiU Junior Faculty
- om att skriva ansökningar (Cissi är med och pratar)
Disputation!
Dag Balkmar - en av våra hubbies - försvarade med elegans sin avhandling "On Men and Cars" den 5 oktober, 2012!
- Vi gratulerar Doktor Dag!!!
And applications, applications, applications... that's what we do a lot these days. Not sure it's top news, though.
September 2012
Workshop with Susanne Gannon: Writing for publication
September 3rd, 13:15-17:00
Room Hygeia, Tema Building, Linköping University
For more information, please click here
Welcome to Prof. Susanne Gannon
We are proud to welcome Susanne Gannon as a visiting professor at The Hub!
May 2012
Entanglements of New Materialisms Conference
May 25th-26th, 2012
The 3rd annual New Materialisms Conference
For more information, please click here
April 2012
Post-humanist issue of NORA
Read about post-humanist gender studies in the new issue of NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
December 2011
Meeting Materialities workshop series | Astrida Neimanis: Are YOU the weather? Embodied phenomenological approaches to reading, writing and researching new materialisms
December 16th, 13:15-16:00
Room Hygeia, Tema Building, Linköping University
While many researchers in the new materialisms have underlined the need to bring radically materialist, naturalcultural conceptualizations of embodiment into our scholarship, far less attention has been paid to how the practices of reading, writing and researching can also become “new materialist”: too often, we still “think with our minds” and approach research as a mere cognitive process. – In this workshop we will thus ask: how might we radically activate the participation of our material bodies—particularly in their affective, perceptual, dissipating, molecular and elemental modes—in our scholarly endeavors?
This workshop introduces participants to an embodied practice of phenomenological research and writing, and gives them hands‐on experience trying it out. The workshop will be divided into two parts: (1) Seminar and discussion of theory and method; and (2) Practice.
For more information, please click here
Welcome to Nina Hoel - The Hub's visiting scholar
Tema Genus and The Posthumanities Hub are happy to welcome Nina Hoel, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cape Town, who will stay with us from December 5th till December 22nd.
Welcome to Astrida Neimanis - The Hub's visiting scholar
November 2011
Meeting Materialities workshops | Stacy Alaimo: Sustainable this, sustainable that: New materialisms, posthumanism and the unknown futures
November 24th, 2011, 13:15-16:00, Room TEM21, Tema Building, Linköping University
Welcome to Stacy Alaimo - The Honorary Guest Professor of The Hub!
Tema Genus and The Posthumanities Hub are happy to welcome Prof. Stacy Alaimo who will be visiting our Hub from November 21st till December 3rd. Together with Nina Lykke and Cecilia Åsberg, Prof. Alaimo will also offer an InterGender course "Introducing Feminist Materialisms"
Welcome to Patricia Treusch - The Hub's visiting scholar
Gender Lab: How to create a gender equal and creative research enviroment
November 3rd, 13:00-16:00, Room: Forum Library, Tema Building, Linköping University
Workshop with Prof. Anna Wahl, Dr. Sofie Linghan and Associate Prof. Charlotte Holgersson. Please register with Linnea Boden.
Welcome to Lissa Holloway-Attaway - The Hub's visiting scholar
October 2011
Seminar with Karla Mason: Taming the city, taming the self
October 27th, 13:15-15:00, Room Faros, Tema Building, Linköping University
Karla Mason, visiting scholar of The Posthumanities Hub, works in the field of Human Animal Studies and will guide us through the historical transformation of our urban human-animal relations that gave shape to city dwelling as we know it today.
Meeting Materialities workshop series | Subjectivity and substance: Technoscience remixtures
October 10th, 10:00-15:00, Room Lethe, Tema Building, Linköping University
"Subjectivity and substance: Technoscience remixtures" with Dr. Celia Roberts and Dr. Cecilia Åsberg is the first workshop within our Meeting Materialities workshop series.
Please register with Cecilia Åsberg.
Meeting Materialities - The Hub's workshop series
In October we start our Meeting Materialities workshop series. We warmly invite you to take part in the workshops! To register and for more information please contact Cecilia Åsberg.
Welcome to Karla Mason - The Hub's visiting scholar
September 2011
Gender Lab: Searching for support and survival in gendered academia
September 30th, 13:15-16:00, Room: Forum Library, Tema Building, Linköping University
Welcome to our new PhD. student Tara Merhabi
We are happy to welcome Tara Merhabi as our new PhD. student, colleague and 'Hubber'!
June 2011
Tema Genus Seminar with Marek Wojtaszek: Ingress of belief: Affectivity, pain, and an event of the political
June 14th, 13:15-15:00, Room Delfi, Tema Building, Linköping University
For more information please click here
Gender Lab's open lecture with Cynthia Kraus: Making sex, making science: Gender as an engine of discovery
June 10th, 15:00-17:00h, Ahlmannsalen Geovetarhuset, Stockholm University
Cynthia Kraus, philosopher, isTenured Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute for social sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (http://www.unil.ch/iss).
Her research areas include gender and sexuality studies, and science & medicine studies, with special interest for the intersections and tensions between scientific knowledge production, clinical practice, discourses and actions from medicalized people, as well as for the critical and normative tasks of the social sciences and humanities in societal debates.
For further information, please contact Linnea Bodén, project secretary, at: linnea.boden@liu.se
To learn more about the Gender Lab project, please click here
Tema Genus & Tema Technology Open Lecture with Cynthia Kraus: I am myself and nobody else is like me: Think twice, if you don't want to wake up pregnant!
June 9th, 16:15-18:00, Room Temcas, Tema Building, Linköping University
For more information please click here
Tema Genus & Tema Technology Seminar with Cynthia Kraus: Linking gender, neuro-/science, medicine and society, research, training, and action through a ‘dissensus framework’: Best practice issues in the management of intersex newborns as a case study
June 8th, 13:15-17:00, Location to be specified
For more information plese click here
May 2011
Tema Genus Seminar with Myra Hird on Volatile bodies, volatile earth: Towards an ethic of vulnerability & with Jami Weinstein on Posthumous life: Toward an inhuman ethico-politics
May 31st, 14:15-17:00, Room Delfi, Tema Building, Linköping University
For more information please click here
Tema Genus Seminar with Hillevi Lenz Taguchi: Making a feminist relational matrialist turn in humanist and social science research: Engaging your affective and bodymind faculties and becoming different-in-yourself as researcher
May 13th, 13:15-17:00, Room Delfi, Tema Building, Linköping University
For more information please click here
Six doctoral positions in interdisciplinary Gender Studies (at Tema Genus), including The Posthumanities Hub!
Deadline: May 6th, 2011
For more information please click here
Norrköping Pride
May 6-7th
On Saturday, May 7th from 16:00-17:00, Cecilia Åsberg will give a lecture: "Queera studier: Genus och glad vatenskap" (free translation: "Queer Studies: Gender and Happy Science). The lecture will focus on gender, nature and culture and how feminist theory has proved to be very useful in understanding science in a queer way.
To learn more about the pride please click here
April 2011
Welcome to Prof. Karen Barad at the Hub's Advisory Board
We are very happy to announce that Karen Barad, professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness and Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz, USA, is now a member of the advisory board of the Hub.
Prof. Stacy Alaimo at the Hub
Time period: November 21st - December 3rd, 2011
Prof. Stacy Alaimo will be the next visiting professor at Tema Genus, hosted by the Posthumanities Hub.
Third New Materialism conference at the Hub
May 25th, 2012
We are happy to announce that the third New Materialism Conference - that took place in Utrecht (2011) and Cambridge (2010) - will be hosted in 2012 by The Posthumanities Hub and Tema Genus and will take place at Linköping University.
Online part time master course in intersectional gender studies
Deadline: April 15th, 2011
This distance course combines intensive face-to-face weeks at the start and end of term with online communication. The course is aimed at students, teachers and professionals who want to use interdisciplinary gender expertise and gender perspective in their further studies or in their professional life.
For more information please click here
Conference with Donna Haraway: New Materialism: Naturecultures
April 7th, 2011, Utrecht, The Netherlands
In collaboration with Iris van der Tuin and Rick Dolphijn we are happy to invite you to a conference with Prof. Donna Haraway's, Vicky Kirby, Adrian McKenzie, Rosi Braidotti and many others. Key note comment to Prof. Haraway by Cecilia Åsberg.
Click here to learn more about the program.
To find out more about the Utrecht University spring program with Donna Haraway, click here
Click here to watch Donna Haraway's lecture online.
Tema Genus Open Lecture with Jackie Stacey: Culture as the new bad object: the new materialities of feminist theory
April 5th, 9:30-11:00, Room Temcas, Tema Building, Linköping University
For more information please click here
Feminist technoscience issue of NORA - call for submissions!
Deadline for applications: April 1st, 2011
Nora: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research announced a call for the speciall issue: "Feminist Technoscience: Beyond the Humanist Imagination". Click here to read the call!
March 2011
Tema Genus Seminar with Malin Ah-King: An evolutionary biologist’s engagement in gender studies or the paradox of knowing diversity and telling normative tales
March 23rd, 15:15-17:00, Room Delfi, Tema Building, Linköping University
For more information please click here
Welcome to Ingvil Hellstrand!
We are happy to welcome our 'hubber' from Stavanger University here in Linköping! Ingvil is the editor of the Posthumanities Hub Newsletter and will stay with us for one month!
First call for visiting scholars at The Posthumanities Hub!
Deadline for applications: March 18th, 2011
Welcome to submit your application for a 2-4 week stay at The Posthumanities Hub.
For more information click here
Tema Genus Seminar with Iris van der Tuin & Rick Dolphijn: New materialism (the Utrecht School)
March 9th, 13:15-15:00h, Room Faros, Tema Building, Linköping University
For more information please click here
Januaray 2011
New issue of NORA
New issue of NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (2011, vol 19:1), edited by Cecilia Åsberg, Malin Rönnblom and Ed.sec. Redi Koobak - subtheme "Survival Stories". Please click here to see the issue.
December 2010
Hub related publications!
As a service to our network members, we provide here a sample list of publications that add to the map of our activities this year.
November 2010
Special issue of the European Journal of Women's Studies edited by Cecilia Åsberg and Nina Lykke
Cecilia Åsberg and Nina Lykke edited a special issue on Feminist Technoscience studies of European Journal of Women's Studies. Please click here to see the issue.
October 2010
Brand new!: Newsletter of The Posthumanities Network: The Next Genderation
click here to learn more and subscribe
May 2010
Intensive PhD-course: Posthumanities in practice: feminist perspective
May 26-27th
Open admission for PhD. students! (2,5 ECTS/hp)
Register before April 25th, 2010: cecilia.asberg@liu.se
Click here for the program and reading list
April 2010
Seminar with Mihai Lacaciu: Becoming a prick: hysterical discourse and modernist theatre
Aprli 29th, 10:00-12:00
Tema Genus, Room: Delphi
Welcome to Mihai Lucaciu!
We are happy to welcome visiting PhD. student Mihai Lucaciu from the Central European University for his research stay with us at the Posthumanities Hub.
March 2010
Dr. Jones Irwin: Is there a philosophy of sex?
March 18th
Tema Genus Higher Seminars series
When: 13:00-15:00
Where: room Delfi, Tema Building
June 2009
Darwin Day
June 10th, 13:00-18:00
All over the world, universities celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the origin of species”. At Linköping University we are doing this with a critical and creative take on genus and specie, gender and diversity. In an afternoon of short lectures, natural scientists and cultural researchers present theirviewsonthedarwinismsoftoday. Heregenderstudiesmeetsanimalstudies, meetsethology, meetscellbiology, meetscritical science studies, meets zooecology, meets cultural studies, meets history of science, meets queer theory, meets You!
Invited speakers: Prof. Maureen McNeil, Prof. Lynda Birke, Dr. Måns Andersson, Prof. Pelle Jensen, Dr. Shai Mulinari, Dr. Malin Ah-King.
Please click here to see the poster.
Welcome to our new PhD. students: Magdalena Górska and Wibke Straube
We are happy to welcome the Posthumanities Hub first PhD. students Magdalena Górska and Wibke Straube!
The 'posthumanities', however, seems to me a useful notion for tracking scholarly conversations
Donna Haraway 2008: 308.
'Human' is definitely not a neutral or innocent category, but a highly gendered and racialized one
Mette Bryld & Nina Lykke 2000: 33.
"What is 'The Human' of the Humanities today?" Listen to a pod cast by Rosi Braidotti (2009)
"Re-thinking the human sciences", see video lecture with Srinivas Aravamudan and Rosi Braidotti (2012)
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Translations of translations...
"Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter" (2012) - an introduction to, and translations of posthumanist keytexts by Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Karen Barad, Michel Callon, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Serres and Annemarie Mol - in Swedish.
Post-humanities issue of NORA
Read about posthumanist gender studies in the 2011:4 issue of
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Transdisciplinary Seminars at the Gender Lab
For more information, please click here
Events archive
By ’posthumanist’ I mean to signal the crucial recognition that nonhumans play an important role in naturalcultural practices, including everyday social practices, scientific practices, and practices that do not include humans. But also, beyond this, my use of posthumanism marks a refusal to take the distinction between ’human’ and ’nonhuman’ for granted, and to found analysis on this presumably fixed and inherent set of categories. Any such hardwiring precludes a geneological investigation into the practices through which humans and nonhumans are delineated and differently constituted. A posthumanist performative account worth its salt must also avoid cementing the nature-culture dichotomy into its foundations, thereby enabling a geneaological analysis of how these crucial distinctions are materially and discursively produced.
Karen Barad 2007: 32
Interviews Master students 2012
“Inspiration is provided by the teachers”
Gender studies on facebook
About Gender Studies
Gender Studies is an inter- and transdisciplinary research unit focusing on issues regarding gender in history and society. Education in Gender Studies: under graduate level, graduate level (Ph.D).
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