Renaissance Posthumanism in Houston May 4, 2012 12:00 AM

Led by Joseph Campana, assistant professor of English, Renaissance Posthumanism explores the connections between the cultures of early modern Europe and current work in the posthumanities. The project will culminate in a symposium followed by an edited collection that will bring together scholars of national and international renown to address the intersection of early modern literary, cultural, and historical studies and notions of the human as viewed through the lens of recent work referred to under the rubric of "the posthuman." Did Renaissance humanism in fact produces the vision of the human against which much posthumanism militates. How might emerging theories of “the posthumanities,” which tend to emphasize highly contemporary forms of media and technology with little reference to their longer histories, benefit from incorporating the tangle of humans, animals, environment, and machines that comprises Renaissance humanism? Please visit http://hrc.rice.edu/renaissance/ for participants and more information.