Newsteller, November 2025
2nd POSTHUMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE (PSC)
Ethics of Emerging Technologies
In Between Transhumanism
and Critical Posthumanism
June 12–13, 2026
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner,
John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Balistreri,
University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
Submissions:
Send your 250-300-word abstract (with up to 5 keywords and a short bio) to aura.schussler@ubbcluj.ro or posthumanstudies.association@gmail.com
Submission deadline: February 10, 2026
For more information about the Call for Abstracts, please access the following link:
https://www.posthumanstudies.org/projects/posthuman-studies-conference-series-psc
Venue:
Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, 1 Mihail Kogălniceanu Street, RO-400084,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Contact:
Lect. Dr. Aura Schussler at aura.schussler@ubbcluj.ro or
A New Collection Coming Soon !
Classical vs.
Euro-Transhumanism:
Antagonism or Convergence?
Edited by Andrei Nutas
Spring 2026:
Imprint: Schwabe, Basel
Journal: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory
Submission guidelines:
Please send your topic’s title, abstract of 200-300 words including a short list of references, five keywords, short bio (100-200 words) including your ORCiD, your full affiliation(s) and e-mail(s) in one Word document (.doc / .docx) titled only with your surname at the e-mails: pwieczorek@wsiz.edu.pl and nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr
Submission deadline: 30th of November 2025
Newsteller, October 2025
New Issue!
Philosophy, Technology, Media
September 2025
ISSN 2472-4513
EISSN 2471-4461
Enjoy reading the issue below:
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/posthuman-studies/issue/9/1
CFP !
World Colloquium on
Existential Posthumanism
Posthuman Renaissance(s) – Making Self, Making World
14-16 January, 2026
Presidency University, Kolkata
IMPORTANT DATES
Opening of the call for summaries:
August 15, 2025
Deadline for submission of summaries:
October 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance/rejection:
October 30, 2025
Philosophical Ecology:
Anthropocentrism as an Epistemological Obstacle
by Roberto Marchesini
Newsteller, September 2025
Publication date: Apr 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1529257380
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures at Bloomsbury
Series Editors: Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact:
Peggy Karpouzou: pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr Nikoleta Zampaki: nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr
and Courtney Morales at courtney.morales@bloomsbury.com
The international conference Rhizome Rosi invites scholars, artists, and practitioners to explore and extend the thought of philosopher Rosi Braidotti. Known for her influential work on feminism, posthumanism, nomadic subjectivities, and critiques of humanism, Braidotti’s project offers crucial tools for rethinking subjectivity, politics, and ethics in our present moment of ecological, technological, and social crises.
Venue: Reid Hall | 4 rue de Chevreuse 75006 Paris
Proposals for papers (title, abstract of 300 to 500 words, indicative bibliography, short bio-bibliography) should be sent to the following address : rhizomerosi@gmail.com . Please indicate any technical requirements if your presentation requires specific equipment or space.
Deadline for submissions : September 30, 2025
Responses will be communicated by :
October 20, 2025
Link:
CFP!
Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities
January 2026 Issue
(vol. 2, Issue 1)
We are pleased to invite unpublished research articles, essays, and creative-critical interventions for the January 2026 issue of Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities.
The journal welcomes work in the areas of posthumanism, ecocriticism, Anthropocene studies, environmental (post)humanities, animal studies, technology and AI studies, decolonial humanities, and related interdisciplinary fields.
Deadline for submissions: 30.10.2025
Email submissions to: sukhendudas@bankurauniv.ac.in
Submission guidelines: https://www.entanglements.in/description.php
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33823/eke.2025.2.2
Published: 2025-09-22
Enjoy reading the issue below:
https://journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/issue/view/eke_v2_i2
Newsteller, August 2025
September 11 – 14 , 2025
San Francisco
For details please visit:
CFP !
World Colloquium on
Existential Posthumanism
Posthuman Renaissance(s) – Making Self, Making World
14-16 January, 2026
Presidency University, Kolkata
For details please visit: https://puconference20262.wixsite.com/pu-conference
IMPORTANT DATES
Opening of the call for summaries: August 15, 2025
Deadline for submission of summaries: October 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance/rejection: October 30, 2025
CFP !
24th International Conference
on New Directions in the Humanities
Beyond Borders:
The Role of the Humanities in Reimagining Communities
1-3 July 2026
NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Lisbon, Portugal + Online
Deadline: 1 September 2025
Submit now: https://tinyurl.com/488me5wk
New Issue!
Entanglements:
Journal of Posthumanities
by Roberto Mascherini
Title: Towards an Ethics of Empathy
Subtitle: Morality and the Recognition of Otherness
Subject Classification: Morals, Bioethics, Philosophy
BIC Classification: HPQ, HP, JFFZ
BISAC Classification: PHI005000, PHI026000, NAT039000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Publication date: 30 Jul 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-175-6
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-176-3
This flyer offers a 33% discount on the book.
Newsteller, June-July 2025
New Collection !
Nietzsche,
Critical Posthumanism,
and Transhumanism
(Posthuman Studies, Vol. 1)
Series: Posthuman Studies
Series Editor: Aura Elena Schussler
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Publication date: July, 2025
The book is fully available in open access.
September 2025 - February 2026
The Open Day: August 9th, 2025
Deadline for early bird and scholarship:
August 15th, 2025
Final deadline: September 6th, 2025
Registration here:
Article Collection titled
Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World
Editors:
Prof. Peggy Karpouzou
Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki
Publisher: Routledge Open Research
Deadline: November 1st, 2025
Link:
August 15-17, 2025
Venue: Université du Québec à Montréal
DETAILS:
Université du Québec à Montréal
Pavillon J.A. DeSève
320 Rue Sainte-Catherine St E
Latin Quarter, Montréal, CA H2X 1L7
Corner of Sainte-Catherine St E & Sanguinet
Registration here:
New Journal!
Ecokritike
Ecokritike is an international, open access, blind and double peer-review journal for academics and researchers who study the fields of Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism. The journal seeks to explore issues beyond the traditional binary and complex relationship of nature-culture, and also examines the changing status of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship, while envisioning matters for sustainable futures in a more-than-human world.
Publication Frequency: two issues a year (February and September).
We accept submissions of articles, book reviews, commentaries and special issues' proposals on a rolling basis. Kindly read the journal's submissions' guidelines and register for free. Welcome to submit your work.
The editors of ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics and the guest editor Michaela Fiserova (Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic) are pleased to invite submissions for the thematic issue on Posthuman Aesthetics.
Submissions should be anonymised for blind peer-review. Papers should conform to the usual ESPES stylistic requirements. Language of Contribution: English.
Submission deadline: October 31, 2025.
Publication date: December 2025.
Submission via: espes.ff.unipo.sk.
Any queries should be addressed to the editors at: espes@ff.unipo.sk
The full CFP is available at: https://tinyurl.com/posthumanaesthetics
Newsteller, May 2025
1st POSTHUMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE (PSC)
PHILOSOPHIES OF TRANSHUMANISM
Original Transhumanism
Classic Transhumanism
and Euro-Transhumanism
Human Enhancement, Technology, Ecology, and Co-Evolution
20-21 June, 2025
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Venue:
Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, 1 Mihail Kogălniceanu Street, RO-400084, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
Prof. Dr. Natasha Vita-More
Founder Human+ AI studies
For more information regarding the program, please access the following link:
https://www.posthumanstudies.org/projects/posthuman-studies-conference-series-psc
15th Beyond Humanism Conference (BHC)
June 24-27, 2025
Venue: University of Paris 8,
Saint-Denis, France
“Cyborg Ethics” with
Prof. Dr. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Now live on the Ethics in Action podcast! An exploration of transhumanism and the ethics of emerging tech. Co-hosted with sociologist and bioethicist James Hughes
New Collection !
Latin America Replies to Transhumanism.
A Symposium on Sorgner’s
We Have Always Been Cyborgs
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Publication date: May, 2025
Link:
Art after Nature
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Building on a growing list of timely and award-winning titles by authors such as Graham Harman, Petra Kuppers, Laurie A. Palmer, and Cary Wolfe, series editors Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard are now inviting new book proposals. We are particularly interested in focused, provocative works—approximately 40,000-50,000 words—that explore themes including (but not limited to) art and Indigenous studies, plant studies, queer ecologies, disability studies, Afrofuturism, critical data studies, diasporas and migration, posthumanism, disaster studies, the digital sublime, ecofeminism, and bio art. For more information about the series and submission guidelines, please visit the University of Minnesota Press website.
Please send any questions to galoi@saic.edu
To submit your book ideas please send us:
1) One word or pdf document with a 500 words abstract and a short bibliography
2) A short bio
3) Your CV
Deadline: July 15th 2025
’Art after Nature’
Editors: Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard
Art after Nature maps new aesthetic territories defined by the humanities’ recent ontological turn. In the face of the unprecedented shifts in humanity’s conceived relationship with the natural world, modes of critical and political artistic engagement are adapting in response. As notions of pristine sublimity crumble, Art after Nature proposes to explore the consequences of this transition, further destabilizing anthropocentrism, and revealing the dark ecological fluidity of naturecultures. The urgency imposed by anthropogenic lenses of inquiry provides an ethical focus capable of applying productive pressure on practices and discourses alike. Within this framework, art theory, practice, and criticism become intersecting platforms upon which to map current philosophical waves. Books published in this series engage with the politics and contradictions of the Anthropocene as a concept in order to problematize recent and influential philosophical waves like animal studies, posthumanism, and speculative realism in relation to art writing and art making.
11th Biennial EASLCE Conference
Utrecht University, Netherlands
14–17 April, 2026
Link:
Please send submissions to easlce2026@uu.nl by 15 September 2025.
Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and submitted in Word (.docx) format. In the same document, please include 3–5 keywords and a short bio (80 words), as well as your full name, institutional affiliation, and email address.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Kate Rigby (University of Cologne)
Eva Meijer (University of Amsterdam)
Newsletter, April 2025
Link to the recorded video:
https://www.youtube.com/live/UNrVs8KSbek
Location:
Faculty of Philosophy, UCM.
Activity in Spanish.
11, June 2025 - Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece
The Internation workshop “Wellbeing in the Digital Era” aims to investigate how our conceptual understanding of well-being has been altered by emerging technologies.
The event is organized by the Cultural Informatics Lab of the University of the Aegean, within the framework of the WELLBEING project which explores the intersection of posthumanist thinking and software engineering aiming to shape a practical philosophy for the digital age.
Link:
Call for Abstracts !
Special issue
Posthumanism and Citizenship
Mark Coeckelbergh & David J. Gunkel
Publisher: Polity Press, 2025
Link:
Sven Helbig's
“Requiem A” Concert
May 8, 2025
Vienna‘s Heldenplatz
„Requiem A“ will be performed on May 8 by Wiener Symphoniker, Dresdner Kreuzchor and René Pape on Vienna‘s Heldenplatz.
It will be part of the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The ‚Fest der Freude‘ is organized by the Mauthausen Committee.
NUCT 2025
May 24, 2025
Ediția a 6-a. Conferința Națională
“Natura Umană, Cultură, Tehnologie”
Comunicare, tehnologie, inteligența artificială și postumanul
6th Edition. National Conference
“Human Nature, Culture, Technology”
Communication, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Posthuman
Newsletter, March 2025
Artist Talk with STELARC:
The Body in Excess, Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras
Hosted by PSI Foundation
The event is offering audiences an opportunity to explore the intersection of technology, anatomy, and the limits of the human body.
Date and Time: 22 March, 18:00
Location: Old Carob Warehouse in Tsiflikoudia, Limassol
The body has always been in excess of its biology, generating alternative anatomical architectures and problematising issues of embodiment, agency and identity.
Public Demo !
HAHA
Hypertrophic Ambidextroud Hand and Arm
STELARC: Concept and Architecture Design
The first public demo of the large ambidextrous arm with hyper extendible fingers and elbow, in addition to continuous wrist rotation, will be on the 19th March at the Lille Polytech for "Journees Annuelles du PEPR 02R".
The ambidextrous arm with exoskeleton control was developed at the ISIR lab, Sorbonne University. Other modes of animation, yet to be realised will be an autonomous AI mode, a bio-signal animation mode and remote online interactivity.
Call for Applications:
2025 Braidotti Summer School !
This year’s program focuses on the theme of affirmative ethics, critically engaging with contemporary patterns of social and personal negativity while fostering creative and hopeful alternatives.
Dates: 18th–22nd August 2025
Location: Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Apply now: Applications are open for this rigorous and intellectually stimulating program.
Spaces are limited!
For more information and to submit your application, please visit the following website:
Econarratives in Theory and Praxis. (Re)Imagining Symbiosis between Humanity and Nature
Date: 14th of April
Online on ZOOM
Please make sure to check your local time zone as the online event's times are in EEST (Eastern European Summer Timezone of Athens, Greece).
The Zoom details are found below:
https://yorkvilleu-tfs.zoom.us/j/7215962430...
Meeting ID: 7215962430
Passcode: 496297025 on Zoom.
Access the livestreamed event as part of a global series of online events to launch the new website of the Planetary Civics Inquiry, founded by alliance partners RMIT University, Dark Matter Labs, Politics for Tomorrow, and the Centre for Complexity at the Rhode Island School of Design.
YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQtyehLLkE4&list=PLU1ss5aCGBYseYN44wCdXRT9GLoeAzOD8&index=2
Journal link:
Newsletter, February 2025
Podcast
Ethics in Action Podcast by James Hughes and Cody Turner. In this eighth episode of the series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner.
"Cyborg Ethics: A Conversation with Stefan Lorenz Sorgner."
Link below:
https://ethics.podbean.com/e/cyborg-ethics-a-conversation-with-stefan-lorenz-sorgner/
Symposium
E3LSI Symposium: Legal, Ethical and Philosophical Issues of Human Enhancement Technology by Moonshot SHIMPO Project, ‘Realization of a Society that can Use Cybernetic Avatars Safely and Securely.’
Date and Time:
7th March, 2025, (Friday), 12:30 for 13:00 start, until 18:00
Venue:
Kyoto International Community House, (Kotoka), Kyoto
Format:
Zoom Hybrid with Simultaneous Interpretation in English and Japanese
Register for Participation via: https://peatix.com/event/4249746/view
Sven Helbig's premiere of “Requiem A” Concert
Sven Helbig's ground-breaking “Requiem A” can be listened to via the
ARTE website:
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/124400-000-A/sven-helbig-requiem-a/
Enjoy the stunning performance of Helbig's new piece by Dresdner Kreuzchor, Staatskapelle Dresden, opera singer René Pape and conductor Martin Lehmann.
As a reaction to contemporary wars, Sven Helbig composed his Requiem A 80 years after the destruction of Dresden. This monumental work will now be given its world premiere in the Church of the Holy Cross in Dresden. The choir of this Lutheran church and the Sächsische Staatskapelle were brought together for the event, with opera singer René Pape completing this outstanding cast.
Here, an excerpt from a recent interview with Sven Helbig in German from the website Musik in Dresden - translated by deepl:
https://www.musik-in-dresden.de/2025/02/08/sven-helbig/
Interviewer:
Perhaps you are one of Strugazki's 'stalkers': a scout who takes his customers to enchanted places that have fallen out of time, a sad treasure hunter who can do nothing with the Soviet or East German promises of modernity.
Sven Helbig:
Strange, Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys has already said that to me. But it's not quite true. I'm a member of the Beyond Humanism network, I'm regularly invited as a keynote speaker there and I'm writing a book with Stefan L. Sorgner on the subject of posthumanism. So I'm not only digging into the past, but also into the future.
New Collection !
The Biopolitics of Human Enhancement
Edited by: James J. Hughes, Steven Umbrello, and Cristiano Calì
Volume 1, in the series “The Politics of Human Enhancement”
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2025
Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner will be participating in the Kyoto University E3LSI Symposium on March 7, 2025. The event will take place at the Kyoto International Community House (Kotoka) and will bring together some of the world’s foremost thinkers in law, ethics, and philosophy of technology.
Prof. Sorgner, a pioneer in transhumanist philosophy, will open the symposium with his talk, “We Have Always Been Cyborgs,” exploring the deep historical and philosophical roots of human enhancement.
Open CFP !
World Colloquium on "Existential Posthumanism: Re-embracing Our Vital Sense"
The CFP is attached below, https://posthumanexist.weebly.com/
Deadline: February 28th 2025:
Prof. Francesca Ferrando will offer a keynote in person at the First World Colloquium on "Existential Posthumanism: Re-embracing Our Vital Sense" at the University "Tecnológico de Monterrey", Campus Puebla, Mexico, May 28-30 2025.
This event will be experiential and experimental, offering not only academic debates and talks, but also fostering a sense of community through workshops as well as activities in local places of interest. The event will be both in Spanish and English.
Upcoming Collection !
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics
Matilda Carter
(Anthology Editor)
Published: 10 Jul 2025
Format: Ebook (PDF)
Edition: 1st
ISBN 9781350428386
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-handbook-of-care-ethics-9781350428386/
Open CFP !
"Narratives for Ecological and Sustainable Transition(s): Nesting Theory and Praxis through Literature-based Workshops”
University of Bergamo, Italy (21-22 May 2025)
Organized by the NEST Research Network.
Discover more on the website: https://www.nestresearchnetwork.org/conference-2025
Newsletter, January 2025
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS !
1st POSTHUMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE (PSC)
PHILOSOPHIES OF TRANSHUMANISM
Original Transhumanism,
Classic Transhumanism,
and Euro-Transhumanism
Human Enhancement, Technology, Ecology, and Co-Evolution
20-21 June, 2025
Venue:
Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, 1 Mihail Kogălniceanu Street, RO-400084,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy.
Submissions:
Abstracts of c. 300 words and up to 5 keywords accompanied by short bios by:
25th March, 2025
Selected papers will be featured in the Posthuman Studies book series (Trivent Publishing).
For more information about the Call for Abstracts,
please access the following link:
https://www.posthumanstudies.org/projects/posthuman-studies-conference-series-psc
Contact information:
Lect. Dr. Aura Schussler at (aura.schussler@ubbcluj.ro ) or at
(posthumanstudies.association@gmail.com )
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS !
15th Beyond Humanism Conference (BHC)
June 24-27, 2025
University of Paris 8, France
Posthuman Art, Creativity, and Play
in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Conference page
Abstracts will be reviewed upon receipt
Deadline for submission: February 28, 2025.
Final notifications will be issued by March 31, 2025.
Deadline for early bird registration: April 30, 2025.
Submission guidelines
We invite paper proposals including a title, an abstract of 350 words, name and affiliation of the author, as well as a short bio with contact information.
Applications together with a short bio-bibliographical notes hould be submitted in English and in PDF format before the 28th of February2025.
Please click on the following link to upload your contribution in one single file
(PDF format required): https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=bhc15
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS !
6th edition of the National Conference
Human Nature, Culture, Technology (NUTC 2025)
24th of May, 2025 (online/ZOOM)
Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Communication, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Posthuman
Submissions:
Abstracts of 300-250 words and up to 5 keywords (in Romanian and English) accompanied by short bios by:
14th March, 2025
For more information about the Call for Abstracts, please access the following link:
https://www.posthumanstudies.org/projects/nuct-national-conference-series
Contact information:
Lect. Dr. Aura Schussler at (aura.schussler@ubbcluj.ro )