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Call for Papers (Deadline June, 16th 2019)
Cologne Summer School of Interdisciplinary Anthropology IV : “Beyond Humanism: Cyborgs – Animals – Data Swarms”
Date: 23rd – 27th September 2019
Place: University of Cologne, Germany
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(For the detailed CfP, list of confirmed speakers and the preliminary programme see the attached PDF)
During the last five decades, public, intellectual, and academic debates have created an increased awareness of so-called transhumanist discourses and social movements accompanied by a diverse body of theoretical works in philosophy, social sciences, and humanities which can broadly be described as posthumanist. Building on a three year long tradition (CSIA 2015–17) of interrogating what it means to be human in the 21st century from an interdisciplinary anthropological perspective, the Cologne Summer School of Interdisciplinary Anthropology 2019 relaunches under the title Beyond Humanism: Cyborgs – Animals – Data Swarms. It picks up where the last CSIA left by taking a closer look at what a trans- and posthumanist agenda actually implies and how it relates to classic understandings of what it means to be human.
Organized by the Collaborative Research Center 806 “Our Way to Europe” and the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, we invite PhD students and early postdocs from all disciplines whose academic interests follow similar perspectives and questions to join us for an intense week of interdisciplinary exchange and controversial discussion. Not simply dismissing new modes of humanisms as mere social phenomena in an age of accelerated technological and cultural transformation, we aim at taking them seriously in order to understand better the shifts in contemporary concepts and controversies about the human being.
Interested PhD students and early postdocs are invited to send their application (CV, draft of project, and motivational letter) to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> before 16 of June 2019.
Limited travel funds for participants of universities from the ‚Global South‘ will be available.
For general questions and inquiries please contact [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit Beyond Humanism: Cyborgs – Animals – Data Swarms <http://artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/40213.html>.
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Christoph Lange, M.A. (CV <http://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?lang=en&kid=374>)
University of Cologne
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Albertus Magnus Platz
50923 Köln
Tel. 0049-(0)221-470-4701
E-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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