Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism, 7,5 credits

Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism are fields within the humanities and the social sciences that are becoming increasingly important for understanding the antropocentric world, its more-than-human relationships, and rethinking of bodies, arts and social meaning.

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Course description

This course provides an introduction to the field of feminist posthumanism and new materialism, with a deeper exploration of its epistemological, ethical, and relational ontological approaches within a feminist theoretical context. The course highlights both points of divergence and interdisciplinary considerations within the field.

Throughout the course, discussions focus on posthumanism’s critical perspective on the anthropocentric and binary traditions of Western knowledge, its constructions of time and subjectivity, and the intra-actions between ecology, subjectivity, and ethics. Furthermore, the course examines new materialism’s reclamation of the materiality of the body, its integrated concept of nature, as well as interpretations of art and the digital in relation to social processes.

Course period

29 September - Course Intro online
30 September - 26 October - Independent Reading Period
27-30 October - Intensive Four Days Seminars (mandatory face-to-face presence)
14 November - Course Paper Submission

Application

Send an e-mail with your name, department, university, dissertation topic (with a description of your interest in pursuing the course max 250 words) and supervisor to phdadministration@erg.su.seno later than 22 September 2025.