Expanded Communities and Posthumanity

The colloquium "Expanded Communities and Posthumanity", coordinated by Marta Segarra (Centre Dona i Literatura), offers a space for academic exchange and interdisciplinary dialogue on the notion of community. Following the research line initiated by the fields of posthuman and animal studies -which have been thriving in English-speaking countries for over a decade and which question the rigid boundary between human/machine and human/animal-, this colloquium seeks to reflect on the notion of community in relation to the different types of otherness, and to deconstruct that which is "uniquely human", to borrow Derrida's words. Participants include renowned specialists such as Laurent Dubreuil (Cornell University), Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Bonobo Hope) and Cary Wolfe (Rice University), as well as the researchers at the Centre Dona i Literatura Rodrigo Andrés, Isabel Clúa and Helena González. This activity is held as part of the research project "Literature and Communities: A Gendered Approach".