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Kalpana Seshadri’s “Posthuman Economics” at the Humanities Center

Professor Seshadri’s new work on “posthuman economics” picks up where her recent study, HumAnimal (Minnesota, 2013) left off. Posthuman economics is a new coinage and field of study that aims to make an intervention in both posthuman studies and economics.

Political Care and Concern for Children and Animals: A Historical View

“Children are good to think with” is how Susan Pearson began her January 29^th talk on "Sentiment and Savagery: Collapsing the Boundary Between Animals and Children in U.S. History," the first lecture this spring 2015 semester in the Humanities Center’s ongoing “Posthumanities” speaker series. Prof.

David Bates on history of artificial intelligence and cybernetics

The second lecture in the Posthumanities series, organized by Lehigh’s Humanities Center, was given by Prof. David Bates, chair of the Rhetoric Department at Berkeley University. His lecture, part of a project provisionally titled Human Insight: An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence, examined the history of artificial intelligence and cybernetics.

Kellie Robertson on Nature's Voices

What if we used the term “nature” instead of “environment”? What would it look like to have a department of nature studies? Why do we so frequently turn to silent depictions of nature, while medieval literature and natural philosophy found it thinkable to personify Nature as a talkative woman? What do we lose when we no longer let nature speak?