Today we have a special invitation for those of you who are keen on taking a cutting-edge PhD course.

It is a great pleasure for us at The Eco- and Bioart Lab to share this news with you, as we are also engaged in teaching this exciting hybrid PhD course: “Reimagining the Humanities”, taking place on Campus Norrköping of Linköping University and via Zoom. Read more below:

Welcome to the Reimagining the Humanities PhD course organised by Tema G (Gender Studies), Tema Q (Culture and Society), and LiU-Humanities at Linköping University, Sweden.

The humanities have had a long history in the constitution of western knowledge, from the Renaissance to the shift in the organisation of knowledge in the late nineteenth century through its division into the natural and human sciences. The very modifier “sciences” was the beginning of the humanities’ demise that we witness today, including the recent efforts to reanimate them through posthumanism and as posthumanities and through interdisciplinary misalliance with technologies and hard sciences.

The central question of this course can then be boiled down to – what does it mean to be human today?

While claiming the necessity of keeping the humanities element in education and research, the course problematises the way humanities have been previously understood and implemented, and reflects on possible ways of their rethinking to better answer the challenges of contemporary world such as climate change, mass migration, the post-peace condition we all share, the continuous erasing of memories and cosmologies, etc.

The course will give 3+7 credits which means – participation in the course will bring you 3 credits and if you are writing a final essay afterwards it will be 10 credits in total.
The course will be held in a hybrid mode at Campus Norrköping. Some of the course teachers will be present in person, but everything will also be connected to Zoom sessions.

If you would like to learn more and register for the course, please contact Prof. Madina Tlostanova: madina.tlostanova[at]liu.se .