Animal Adaptations

With a new grant project starting soon, we are also involved in other activities!
👉For instance, the International Post-Humanist Congress "Voices from the Margins: Gender, Posthumanism, Minoritised Cultures, and Decolonial Worldviews" (University of Warsaw, 27th–29th October 2025). There is still time to send your proposals and join us! 🎤

👉The conference, which will take place from 27th to 29th October 2025 at the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw, will be held entirely in-person. We invite individual researchers or research groups to submit proposals by the 15th of June including a title, the name(s) of the participant(s) and their academic titles, email, institution, and a 250-word abstract with a bibliography to [email protected]. Proposals for panels of three participants are also welcome. Individual papers should be 20 minutes long. Notification of acceptance will be sent by after 30th of June.

We particularly welcome proposals addressing the following themes:
👉Posthuman and Decolonial Feminism: The posthuman turn versus (andro/anthropo)centrism in literature, theatre, and film;
👉Minoritised Cultures and Indigenous Worldviews: Ontologies, epistemologies, and activism in decolonial (con)texts;
👉The Humanimal Subject: Conceptual and ethical challenges that emerge from destabilising categories of species;
👉Queer and Trans Self-Representations: Alternative autofictions in contemporary culture.
👉Subaltern Auto(bio)graphical Subjects in Dialogue with Activism: Life-writing as a space of resistance;
👉Inter/transcultural Perspectives in Posthuman Epistemologies: Reflections on situated knowledge and the role of marginalised cultures in knowledge production;
👉Relationality and Non-Western Ontologies: Philosophical and cultural explorations of the interdependence between the human and non-human within Indigenous and Afro-diasporic worldviews;
👉Critique of the Anthropocene and Reconfiguring Humanity: Decentralising the human as a central force in ecological crises and global power dynamics;
👉Cultural representations of the posthuman body: intersections of gender, race, and technology;
👉Ecocriticism and Animality: Environmental crises and human–non-human relations from the perspectives of non-hegemonic humanities;
👉New Materialism and the Agency of Things: The agency of objects and their role in social relations, questioning the subject/object dichotomy;
👉Community-based Knowledge and Experiences: The role of racialised, feminised, and minoritised communities, as well as diverse activisms, in constructing epistemic and ontological alternatives;
👉Subversive Politics, Social Movements, and the Creation of Other Possible Worlds: Explorations of the transformative capacity of the margins in posthuman and decolonial visions.

🗣 Conference Languages: Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Euskera

👉 Full call for papers file here:https://neofilologia.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CFP-ENG.pdf