JUNO and TIAS Seminar on New Materialism and Posthumanism

20 May 2024

Arcanum, Seminar Room A355/357

Please register latest 13 May 2024

Programme

10.15-11.45 Keynote lecture
Olga Cielemecka: Enter the Forest. New Materialisms , Borders, and Matter Unbound

Lunch

13.00-14.30 Session I 
Katve Kaisa Kontturi and Milla Tiainen: New Materialisms and the (Study) of Art: A Mapping of Co
Emergence (at the University of Turku and Beyond
Murat Türkmen: Ecocritical Costume: On Becoming a More than human Political Agency
Oleksandra Nenko: More Than Just a Place of Residence: Circular Lifestyles in Old Wooden Houses

Coffee Break

15.00-16.00 Session II
Asko Nivala: Non human Agency, Cybernetics and Kant’s Theory of Organism
Ilkka Levä: Hands off from the Psychedelics, Capitalist Labor; or How to See Psychedelics in the Context of the Socialization of Capitalism in the Era of the Labor Sustainability Revolution

Break

16.15-17.45 Session III
Faeze Rezaii: The Transcorporeal Embodiments of Water in Greg Egan’s “Oceanic”
Johanna Kujala: Posthuman Innerdance
Kaisa Kortekallio: Skills for Reading in the Planthroposcene

Organised by Doctoral Programme in History, Culture and Arts Studies (Juno) and Turku Institute
for Advanced Studies (TIAS)