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: Dr. Gitanjaly Chhabra 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), technology mediation, decolonization and green education. She believes in the ‘phenomenological immersion in infinite unity’ - exploring the boundaries of self and beyond. She loves coffee and travelling. 

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

Project: "From Theory to Praxis: Erasure and Emergence in Posthuman Arts-Based Pedagogy"

Abstract: My work explores posthuman arts-based pedagogy as a creative and relational practice where teaching and learning emerge through embodied, more-than-human encounters. Rather than treating education as the transmission of fixed knowledge, it reimagines learning as an ongoing process of becoming-with the world. Through erasure poetry, the work invites learners and educators to unsettle assumptions, engage uncertainty, and generate meaning through attunement, materiality, and creative practice. Drawing on posthuman philosophy, it considers consciousness as distributed and emergent, while positioning education as immersive praxis that foregrounds interdependence, relationality, and the transformative possibilities of learning with human and more-than-human worlds.

Info: https://www.gitanjalychhabra.com

Bio: Born in Italy and living in India, I began traveling at an early age, pursuing an independent path of self-directed study that continues to shape my work today.  My research focuses on the intersection of Integral Yoga, mythology, mysticism, posthuman philosophy, and integral sustainability, exploring the dialogue between spiritual evolution, culture, and the future of human consciousness.  I am the author of several books on these subjects. Alongside research and writing, I place great importance on praxis: for decades I have worked with tribal and underprivileged communities in remote regions, seeking to translate philosophical and spiritual principles into concrete action.  A significant part of my work is dedicated to the ongoing manifestation and development of Auroville, the universal experimental township founded as a living laboratory for human unity and collective evolution.

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

Title: "Permanent Posthuman Laboratory in Auroville"

Abstract: This project envisions a permanent, small-scale living research community dedicated to the exploration of posthuman thought, Integral Yoga, and new paradigms of human and planetary evolution. Open throughout the year, it will welcome scholars, artists, practitioners, and researchers from around the world, creating an interdisciplinary environment where knowledge is not only studied but lived. Rather than functioning as a conventional research center, it is conceived as a space in which living, learning, researching, and co-creating become inseparable dimensions of a shared experiment. The community aims to serve as an evolving laboratory where intellectual inquiry, spiritual practice, artistic expression, and sustainable living converge, fostering collaborative research and the emergence of new models for the future of humanity.

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: 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: 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: Yaeko Hori is a posthuman educator in higher education in Japan. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Cultures, an M.A. in TESOL, and a Ph.D. in Humanities and Human Communication. Her interdisciplinary research explores language, communication, lived experience, and identity formation in the 21st century from posthuman and phenomenological perspectives. She develops pedagogies that cultivate ethical, relational, and posthuman ways of learning and becoming. She is also founder of Keybow Labo, a collaborative research platform for radical hope. Across research, pedagogy, and multidimensional expression, her work embraces more caring ways of becoming with the world, the Earth, and the universe.

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

Project: "Posthuman Reflexivity: Poiesis, Sympoiesis, and (P)art/ai (愛) of Being Posthuman"

Abstract: This paper explores “posthuman reflexivity” as an emergent praxis. Based on Keybow Labo’s project, which transformed doctoral research on identity formation into an art assemblage including a digital publication and animation with music, it examines the project’s dynamic, mandala-like ripple effects beyond center/periphery dualism, including direct and indirect responses from participating artists and others. The assemblage stimulated sensory, emotional, and affective expression, including silence, drawings, photographs, and other nonverbal responses. Drawing on poiesis, sympoiesis, lived translanguaging, and radical hope, the paper argues that posthuman reflexivity emerges as shared response-ability and caring becoming as lived praxis.

Info: https://linktr.ee/keybow.labo

Bio: I currently teach French as a Foreign Language at the University of Algarve (Portugal), and Arts and Film Studies at the University of Moulay Ismail in Meknes, (Morocco). I hold a BA in Philosophy, a BA in Modern Languages and Literatures, an MA in French Literature, and a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Lisbon. I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Artistic Studies at New York University.

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

Title: Nomadic Learning

Abstract: My project explores how posthumanist pedagogy can transform French language education through dynamic learning spaces, non-Eurocentric perspectives, non-Western ontologies, and co-creative technologies.

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: 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: Shabnam Naderi is a member of The Global Posthuman Network, FORTI & ECOTRAD research groups and former lecturer of translation at Allameh Tabataba’I University (2019-2025), Tehran. She received her Ph.D. in Translation Studies from the same university 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. 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

Title: "The Posthuman Translation Pedagogy in its Becoming"

Abstract: The Posthuman Translation Pedagogy in its Becoming, being a non-totalizing, postqualitative inquiry, represents a pioneering effort to explore posthuman translation pedagogy and aims at opening up new territories. It broadens our understanding of Meaning-making, Translation and Translation Pedagogy considering a more holistic approach and serves as a tangible resource for educators seeking to adopt a posthuman approach that responds to the needs of an entangled, post-anthropocentric world and a more sustainable (environmental, social, technological, etc.) future. It addresses a critical lack in current translation curricula and serves as an initiative for pedagogical reimagination based primarily on transdisciplinarity and posthuman entanglement.

Bio: Saturn is a neurodivergent transdisciplinary artist, independent researcher and activist whose practice emerges from daily collaboration and symbiosis with 200+ rescued plants, lichens, and microbial cultures in their home-laboratory. Their work spans poetry, video art, performance and biological media, informed by studies in nature-based solutions, transmedia art and design. Co-founding Studio Viridixima, they develop living media, regenerative practices and  speculative fabulations enacted through matter that generate sensory knowledge beyond human perception. Their work cultivates care for overlooked perspectives, nurturing other ways of living and knowing while seeding new stories of coexistence alongside more-than-human collaborators.

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

Title: "Making With Ruins"

Abstract: Making With Ruins investigates existential isolation through situated posthumanist praxis at Prafórte, an alpine village displaced by Cold War military exercises, now a postnatural landscape where political history and ecological succession can no longer be separated. This condition becomes the ground for a speculative fabulation enacted through matter. A three-day laboratory culminates in a collective kneading ritual: soil, debris, heritage seeds formed into spheres carrying human and more-than-human memories, anchored to the ruins through repurposed military fencing. As seeds germinate, the site becomes habitat and edible garden, a material proposition for multispecies commensality against the logics of separation.

Info: http://viridixima.com

Bio: Vaishnavi Singh is a research scholar in the Department of English at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, India. A certified Posthuman Educator, her doctoral work engages with Posthumanism, focusing on speculative fiction, cyborg theory and post-anthropocentrism. Through her scholarship, she explores dimensions of the posthuman condition, engaging with 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.

Title: "A Roadmap to Posthumanism"

Abstract: A Roadmap to Posthumanism reimagines posthumanism as a lived and evolving journey rather than a fixed theoretical domain. Emerging from moments of uncertainty and inquiry, the project organizes complex posthuman ideas into a navigable pedagogical pathway. Moving across lived experience, guided theoretical engagement, and embodied praxis, it foregrounds relationality, becoming, and ethical awareness. By integrating voices, texts, media, and reflective practices, the roadmap invites learners to locate their own entry points and evolve critically within posthuman thought. It does not simplify complexity; instead, it structures it as an open, dynamic process of learning, unlearning, and becoming in a more-than-human world.

Bio: Kusumitha R is a doctoral researcher in English literature at Bangalore University, India. She works in the shifting spaces where stories meet sequences—where genes write, rewrite, and imagine the human otherwise. Drawn to speculative fiction shaped by biotechnology and genomic thought, she traces lives that unfold beyond singular bodies, across cells, codes, and unseen companions. Here, the self is not fixed but flickers—assembled, dispersed, and reassembled—an unfinished pattern in which matter and meaning learn to become together.

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

Title: "Meditating the Molecule: Genetic Memory, Silence, and Posthuman Becoming"

Abstract: This project explores how contemporary science fiction reimagines subjectivity through genetic memory and contemplative inwardness. Focusing on Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, it reads genetic memory not as deterministic code but as an affective, pre-conscious archive that shapes ethical reflection. Through moments of silence, hesitation, and withdrawal, the narrative stages posthuman becoming as a relational and unfinished process. Bringing together posthuman philosophy, memory studies, and technologies of the self, the project argues that speculative fiction reframes the human not through mastery of life, but through attentiveness to its molecular, ecological, and ethical entanglements.

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: 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: 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

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: 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