Bio: Student of Philosophy and Bioethics based in Barcelona primarily interested in the nature of subjectivity and its diversity (non-human subjectivity, altered states of mind, effects of new technologies on subjectivity, etc.), as well as the ethical implications thereof. Reformed gamer with a remaining attraction to game studies, particularly as it regards to avatar embodiment and identity play. In a past life, worked as a biomedical engineer specialized in software solutions for accessible monitoring of stroke survivors and to support their rehabilitation through gamification strategies. Loves cats and cereal.

Key Words: Subjectivity; Agency; Patienthood; Embodiment; Identity

Bio: Derrick Abnoos is a Sociology student at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, committed to expanding his sociological imagination and helping others do the same. His current project blends posthuman philosophy, gender studies, and the sociology of technology to develop a framework for studying gender in the age of artificial intelligence. Inspired by Arlie Hochschild’s insight that “empathy allows you to do your thinking with more understanding,” Derrick treats empathy as both a personal value and an academic practice –  a mantra guiding his research and his vision for sociology’s future.

Key Words: Artificial Intelligence; Posthuman Sociology; Family Dialogue; Gender; Education

Bio: I am a largely self-taught researcher without an academic background, as well as a martial arts instructor and specialist in martial psychology. For nearly twenty years, I have focused on Integral Yoga, exploring its intersections with alchemy, psychology, gnosticism, mythology, philosophy, and sustainability. I have lived permanently in Auroville for the past decade, working on sustainability and Integral Yoga projects in collaboration with NGOs, educational institutions, and tribal communities. I am also a writer and the author of four books on yoga, archetypes, tantra, feminine divinities, and personality disorders.

Key Words: Integral Yoga; Archetypal Psychology; Mysticism; Integral Sustainability; Laboratory of Human Unity

Bio: Dr. Gitanjaly Chhabra is an Assistant Professor at University Canada West (UCW), Vancouver, Canada. She is an academic, philosopher, and writer. She has published articles in prestigious journals and presented her work at prominent conferences. Her current research work focuses on Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Posthuman Philosophy (Consciousness and Applied Linguistics), Green education, and Indigenous perspectives in education.  She believes in the 'phenomenological immersion in infinite unity' - exploring the boundaries of self and beyond.   

Key Words: Artificial intelligence; Consciousness; Erasure and Emergence; Existence; Posthuman

Bio: Helena Correia is a Cultural manager, Curator, Designer, and Researcher based in Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a BA in Communication Design (IADE-Creative University, Lisbon, Portugal), a MA in Cultural Management (Algarve University, Portugal), PhD in Culture Studies (Lisbon Consortium, Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal) and a PhD candidate in History of Art (NOVA University-FCSH). Previous research projects have addressed how Portuguese Contemporary Art Museums communicate culture, winning an Award by the APOM: Portuguese Museum Association in 2013. Her research focuses on how Contemporary Art envisions a Sustainable Future(s). 

Key Words: Posthumanities, Post-Anthropocene, Visual Culture, Contemporary Art, Museums, Curating, and Technology.

Bio: My name is Juan José Bermudez Florez. I was born in Colombia and currently live and work in Mexico. I hold a B.A. in Hispanic Literature from Tecnológico de Monterrey and have participated in two research stays focused on literary criticism and archival research. In May 2024, I co-created and organized the First Symposium on posthumanisms in Latin America, aimed at bringing together emerging writers, artists, scholars and researchers from across the continent to explore the intersections of art and posthumanism. My intellectual interests include speculative fiction, end-of-the-world narratives and the act of reading.  

Key Words: Speculative fiction; Latin America; end-of-the-world narratives; aesthetic practices; reading

Bio: I live in Warsaw, Poland. I am an artist and philosopher; PhD course graduate  from the Warsaw Fine Arts Academy and PhD candidate in philosophy in the University of Warsaw. In my thesis, entitled "Aisthesis in Nonanthropocentric Perspective. The Consequences of Agential Realism of Karen Barad for Aesthetic Research" I explore matter as sensitive, creative and agential, using Barad’s agential realism as the toolkit in aesthetics. The urge to understand my own embodied sensitivity and creative process of painting, brought me to posthumanism. I purposefully entangle academic and artistic discourses with the posthuman ethical dimension: in conferences, publications and exhibitions.  

Key Words: art; philosophy; nature; beauty

Bio: Kusumitha R. is a PhD Research Scholar in Literary and Cultural Studies. She is pursuing her doctorate at Bangalore University, Karnataka, India, where her research focuses on posthuman subjectivity in science fiction. Her academic interests include posthuman studies, ecocriticism, transhumanism, and critical theory, with a particular emphasis on how narratives negotiate questions of technology, ethics, and planetary kinship. Her work explores the entangled relationship between technology and the human self as mediated through fiction, examining how literature reimagines identity beyond anthropocentric frameworks.

Key Words: Biotechnology; Posthuman Pedagogy; Speculative Fiction; Technology and Selfhood; Ethics of Enhancement

Bio: Muhammad Bilal is a multidisciplinary researcher and MPhil scholar in American Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University, where he graduated with distinction and is to be awarded the Chancellor’s Medal. His thesis, Posthumanism and Metaverse in American Science Fiction Cinema: An Evaluation of Ready Player One (2018) and Free Guy (2021), explores how digital imaginaries reshape reality, identity and agency. Currently working as Research Assistant in the China Program at the Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad. He has been awarded a full scholarship for the Posthuman Educator Certification by the Posthuman Academy and selected as Junior Associate at SIUA. His project, Relational Horizons: A Digital Gallery on Sufi Posthumanism, reimagines concepts such as Ishq, Fana, Baqa, Wahdat ul Wajood, and Khudi through multimedia co-creation, embodying posthuman principles of multiplicity and relationality.

Key Words: Sufism; Posthumanism; Science Fiction; Digital Hummanities; Global and Regional Studies

Bio: I am a researcher and educator working at the intersection of literature, languages, philosophy, and the arts, always guided by a holistic perspective. My academic journey has taken me from France to Portugal, where I currently teach French at the University of Algarve, and to the United States, where I conducted research at UCLA and completed my postdoctoral studies at NYU. I am committed to the posthumanist approach in education, viewing it also as a way of thinking and engaging with our contemporary reality, fostering critical reflection, encouraging cultural dialogue, and exploring innovative practices that challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Key Words: Arts – Education – Interconnection – Languages – Posthumanism

Bio: I am Professor of Architecture at University of Portsmouth; I have a BA Hons psychology/philosophy (Boston University) and a professional masters degree in architecture (MArch, SCI-ARC, Los Angeles), plus studies in environmental design, movement, and installation art. My practice spans architecture, teaching, writing, publishing, and curating. I have taught across the UK and Europe, and practiced in Germany. My research – pedagogical and other – explores performative practices entangling architecture, performance, geography, anthropology, and sociology. I focus on posthuman aesthetics and more-than-human assemblages in architectural production, examining how these inform political practices, the 'common,' critical pedagogies, and caring, ethical world-making with human and non-human others through intraventional post-qualitative research methodologies.

Key Words: more-than-human/posthuman aesthetics; care; process-relational; aesthetics::politics

Bio: Oscar F. Reyna (PhD candidate in Anthropology of Development) researches socio-environmental conflicts at the confluence of mining, heritage, sacred natural sites and extractive industries. Theoretically, he explores the intersections of Post-humanism, New Materialisms and Multi-species ethnography. His main interest is to reveal the more-than-human territorial vitalities developing in threatened spaces.

Key Words: plants agency, posthumanism, new materialism, anthropology, democracy

Bio: I am a visual artist writing a PhD thesis. As a visual artist I work on bringing the viewer closer to the idea of equi-valence of humans, animals, plants. The thesis I am writing is provisionally entitled “Battered earth, sixth extinction and machines”; it wonders about the inability of occidental culture to recognise the intelligence in non-human life, while assigning it to machines. I studied Fine Arts in Madrid (Spain) and Berlin (Germany) and attended some courses at the School of Visual Arts, the New School and the Art Students League in NY (US). Visit my work at http://www.miselva.org

Key Words: arts; ecology; education; activism; politics

Bio: Dr. Pelin Kümbet is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Kocaeli University, Türkiye. She is currently a visiting researcher in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, conducting postdoctoral research on posthumanism and reproductive justice. She serves as a Turkish Language Instructor and Co-Organizer of Turkish Cultural Events at Cornell.  Dr. Kumbet pursued research at the University of California, Riverside, where she wrote her dissertation, exploring the importance of dynamic, evolving, and living posthumanist environmental ethics, which was published as a book titled Critical Posthumanism: Cloned, Toxic, and Cyborg Bodies in Fiction.

Key Words: Posthumanism, Posthuman Bodies, Reproductive Technologies and Justice, Environmentalism

Bio: Pratyay Raha is a sonic arts and music practitioner focused on ecological transformation, field recording, sound arts, soundscape composition, and critical posthumanism. He aims to create works that raise awareness and action to preserve endangered environments. Holding an MA in Composition and Creative Music Practice from the University of Limerick, he is now pursuing a PhD at RMIT University, Melbourne. Raha has been Artist-in-Residence at renowned institutes such as Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (Germany), Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (Switzerland), Srishti Manipal Institute (India), Indian Sonic Research Organisation, Forecast (Germany), Bogong Centre for Sound Culture (Australia), and Braunschweig (Germany).

Key Words: Soundscape; critical posthumanism; creative non-fiction; composition; creative practice

Bio: Saturn is an artist and activist whose practice emerges from non-normative perceptual frameworks and daily collaboration and symbiosis with 200+ plants and microbial cultures in their home-laboratory. Their artistic evolution spans poetry, video art, performance and biological media, informed by studies in Nature-based solutions,  transmedia art and design. Co-founding Viridixima, they develop living media, speculative projects and regenerative practices that generate sensory knowledge beyond human perception. Their work cultivates care for overlooked perspectives while nurturing other ways of living and knowing alongside more-than-human collaborators.

Key Words: care; regeneration; mutualism; non-normative perceptions; kindness

Bio: Shabnam is an affiliate member of The Global Posthuman Network. She received her Ph.D. in Translation Studies from Allameh Tabataba’I University, Tehran, in 2023. Her doctoral dissertation titled Translation Studies in the Light of Posthumanism discusses the implications of a posthuman perspective for translational inquiries. Her work engages critically and creatively with the evolving dialogues between translation studies and posthumanist thought, with contributions spanning presentations, workshops, and panels at leading international conferences and academic forums. She pursues a variety of research interests ranging from Posthuman Translation Pedagogy, Ethics & Agency to material-discursivity and Spacetimemattering.

Key Words: Posthuman Translation Pedagogy; Diffractive inquiry; Posthuman Ethics; artful Worlding; material-discursivity

Bio: Vaishnavi Singh is a research scholar in the Department of English at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, India. Her doctoral work engages with Posthumanism, focusing on speculative fiction, cyborg theory and post-anthropocentrism. Through her scholarship, she explores the dimensions of the posthuman condition, engaging with its multiple possibilities and critical perspectives. She has presented her work at national and international conferences and her research has appeared in several esteemed academic journals, with notable papers including Sleeves of Death: Thanatopolitics and Disposable Bodies in Altered Carbon and The Feminized Cyborg: Gendered Constructs of AI in Klara and the Sun. 

Key Words: Posthumanism; Cyborg; Post-anthropocentrism; Speculative fiction; Technology.

Bio: Yaeko Hori is an explorer holding an M.A. in Comparative Cultures, an M.A. in TESOL, and a Ph.D. in Humanities and Human Communication. She is currently an associate professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business and a lecturer at Waseda University in Japan. Her interdisciplinary research interests encompass applied linguistics, psychology, immigrant studies, and the philosophy and methodology of phenomenology. Her work focuses on language use and learning, the philosophy of language and communication, and human identity formation in the contemporary world, particularly from a posthuman perspectives. 

Key Words: Identity formation beyond modern self vs. postmodern selves; Art X Academia X Nature; Resonant radical hope

Bio: My name is Zachary Ezra, and I am a senior in college at American University. I major in Political science, and minor in justice, law, and criminology. I developed an interesy into posthumanism relatively early on within my college career and became more engrossed following my semester abroad. I am also a big fan of learning about marine biology, as well as new and upcoming bio medical technology in my free time. I hope to one day work in counter-terrorism. 

Key Words: Bio-medical technology; body modification, transhumanism