Hyderabad: Pramod K Nayar nominated to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Posthumanities Hub

Pramod Nayar is the only Indian academic on the Board.

Hyderabad: Pramod K Nayar, UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, Senior Professor, Department of English and an alumnus of University of Hyderabad (UoH) and author of the much-cited book Posthumanism (Polity Press) besides over a dozen essays on the field, has been nominated to the Scientific Advisory Board of one of the world’s largest research networks for posthumanist studies, the Posthumanities Hub, based in Linkoping University, Sweden: https://posthumanitieshub.net/about-the-hub/

Described as a ‘collaboratory’, the Hub, founded by Professor Cecilia Asberg, a leading scholar in gender studies, cultural studies of science and technology, and environmental studies at Linkoping, is a space for research in the new humanities and more-than-human humanities, and work in the symbiotic arts and sciences.

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The Scientific Advisory Board consists of pioneer researchers in posthumanist studies, from Donna Haraway, Karen Barad and Rosi Braidotti to Jackie Stacey, Matthew Fuller and Myra Hird. Pramod Nayar is the only Indian academic on the Board, a press release said.