It is our great pleasure to share with you an announcement about the upcoming PhD course on Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism (7,5 ECTS) organised by Gender Academy Research School at Stockholm University.

Please, check for details below:

See link: https://www.su.se/gender-academy/about-the-gender-academy/feminist-posthumanism-and-new-materialism-7-5-credits-1.825387

Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism are fields within the humanities and the social sciences that are becoming increasingly important for understanding the anthropocentric world, its more-than-human relationships, and rethinking of bodies, arts and social meaning.
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 2025 – Course Intro online
30 Sept-26 Oct. Independent Reading Period
27-30 October Intensive Four Days Seminars (mandatory face-to-face presence at Campus Frescati)
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 name and email of your supervisor. phdadministration@erg.su.se no later than 22 September 2025.

Teachers: Natalia Volvach, Stockholm University; Marietta Radomska, Linköping University; Mirko Nikolic, Södertörn University.

Course coordinator: Malena Gustavson, SU. malena.gustavson@gender.su.se

Literature: course reading list available by August

Syllabus see course web page (link above)