Posthumanism Research Institute

10/15/2026

🧫💗 Join our upcoming virtual event, INCUBATOR Art Lab: Reimagining Biotechnology as a Technology of Love, on October 27, 1:00-2:30 pm ET! Contact [email protected] to register.

Our speaker Dr. Jennifer Willet is an artist, researcher, performer, and curator in the international art/science community.

Perpetuating biotechnology as a technology of love is a poetic offering across species, an applied social and political act, and a feminist and postcolonial reimagining of scientific methodology, laboratory communities, and the stories we tell ourselves about the role of humans on our planet.

📩 To register, contact: [email protected]

09/28/2026

This is a friendly reminder that our online panel, “(Un)Designing Posthuman Futures of AI,” will take place tomorrow, September 29, from 1:00–2:00 PM EST.

09/25/2026

🎬 A reminder that this movie screening is happening this Monday, September 28! Join us if you’re in the Niagara area!

🍿Join us for a movie screening if you are in the Niagara area!

🎬“Ghost in the Machine,” dir. Valerie Veatch
Monday, September 28, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT
Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, downtown St. Catharines, Ontario

“Ghost in the Machine delivers a thought-provoking takedown of Techno-Fascism. Valerie Veatch’s exploration of the eugenicist roots and colonial and anti-environmental reality of the A.I. arms race…tells the tale of a society that has lost its moral and humanitarian bearing at the behest of techno-oligarchs, amalgamating our own labor to keep us divided.” (Oliver Jones, The Observer)

Co-sponsored by the Social Justice Research Institute, History Department, and PACHRED

Free entry. No on-site parking.

Watch the trailer: https://notaidoc.com/trailer

09/21/2026

Call For Papers: Futures of Memory Conference 2027

"Performing the Past, Witnessing (for) the Future: Memory in the Posthumanist Era" is a 3-day in-person conference happening May 03-05, 2027, at downtown Waterloo’s Balsillie School of International Affairs (ON/Canada).

Follow the link to see the details and don't forget to submit your abstract by December 15, 2026.

Call For Papers Futures of Memory Conference 2027 Performing the Past, Witnessing (for) the Future: Memory in the Posthumanist Era The early 21st-century understanding of memory as fundamentally ‘performed’ was predicated on the role of the body, or embodiment per se. Other theorists in this per...

09/16/2026

🍿Join us for a movie screening if you are in the Niagara area!

🎬“Ghost in the Machine,” dir. Valerie Veatch
Monday, September 28, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT
Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, downtown St. Catharines, Ontario

“Ghost in the Machine delivers a thought-provoking takedown of Techno-Fascism. Valerie Veatch’s exploration of the eugenicist roots and colonial and anti-environmental reality of the A.I. arms race…tells the tale of a society that has lost its moral and humanitarian bearing at the behest of techno-oligarchs, amalgamating our own labor to keep us divided.” (Oliver Jones, The Observer)

Co-sponsored by the Social Justice Research Institute, History Department, and PACHRED

Free entry. No on-site parking.

Watch the trailer: https://notaidoc.com/trailer

09/04/2026

📢 Call for Papers | Futures of Memory Conference 2027

Performing the Past, Witnessing (for) the Future: Memory in the Posthumanist Era

📍 Balsillie School of International Affairs, downtown Waterloo

Submission requirements:
• Title and abstract (max. 500 words)
• Short bio (max. 250 words)

Deadline: December 15, 2026
Submit to Russell Kilbourn ([email protected]) and Stephanie Lewis ([email protected])

📢 Results will be communicated by mid-January 2027.

For full details, please see the attached Call for Papers and the website.
https://specialprojects.wlu.ca/futures-of-memory/

09/01/2026

We’re pleased to collaborate on this upcoming panel exploring the intersections of AI, posthumanism, and sustainability. Join us online on September 29!

06/18/2026

🎥 Live Talk Recording Now Available!
The recording of our recent live stream talk has been uploaded to YouTube.
If you missed it or want to rewatch, check it out here 👇

Dark Green Religion Meets the Posthuman: Post-Islamic EcoSpirituali...

06/03/2026

📚 New Issue Available!

The latest issue of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism / Interconnexions: revue de posthumanisme is now available online.

Read the full issue here:
https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/posthumanismstudies/issue/view/281

05/25/2026

⚠️ URGENT UPDATE: LIVESTREAM LINK CHANGED ⚠️

Please note that today’s livestream will now take place on YouTube instead of the previous platform.

New livestream link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/nQcunXpBH2k

If you would like to ask the presenter a question during the event, please send your questions directly to PRI Director Trevor Norris at:
[email protected]

As the YouTube comments section can be difficult to navigate during the livestream, emailing questions will help us ensure they are received and addressed.

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you online!

Join our livestream talk on Monday, May 25!
Çağdaş Dedeoğlu, the founding director of The Posthuman Lab, will present "Dark Green Religion Meets the Posthuman: Post-Islamic EcoSpirituality under the Neoliberal Anthropocene” from 11:00am to 12:30pm EST.
For more details and the livestream link, visit: https://brocku.ca/pri/2026/05/11/livestream-talk-by-cagdas-dedeoglu-dark-green-religion-meets-the-posthuman/