PHuN 2018 - 2018 Second Annual Posthuman Network (PHuN) Graduate Student Conference

The Second Annual Post-Human Network Graduate Student Conference
Post-Human Politics: Inheriting from 1968
February 22-24, 2018
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
As we approach the 50-year anniversary of 1968, a high point of activism and protest around the world, we are interested in reflecting on and engaging with 1968’s legacy of activism as it influences theory and practice. While 1968 is often associated with the May protests in France, this time period saw various protests and radical action occurring at places around the world, including the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, student movements in Mexico, the Cultural Revolution in China, and anti-war protests and counter-culture movements in the USA. Many of these events still resonate in our contemporary sociopolitical atmospheres.
We are interested in bringing the legacy of 1968 into the present through presentations engaging with any of the following questions:
- What and how have we inherited from the events of ‘68 and its global figures?
- How have practices such as ‘activism’ and ‘social movements’ changed in the last fifty years?
- What practices are sufficient or insufficient to the evolving impositions of climate change, integrated world capitalism, or dominant cultures of technoscience?
- How can enacted events help us to think about eco- and biopolitical issues outside of apocalyptic or salvific discourses?
- How can we rethink notions of speed, acceleration, and slowness apart from cybernetic frameworks of accelerationism and transhumanism, or the reified subject of embodiment studies or phenomenology?
Keynote Speaker: Kavita Philip, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
For more information and to submit an abstract, visit www.post-human.net/conference