PhD application evaluation completed

I have just concluded my work in relation to evaluation of 23 applicants for a posthumanities-themed PhD position at University of Stavanger, as a member of the evaluation committee for Network for gender research.

PhD application evaluation meeting

Today I attended a meeting with a UiS colleague with whom I am evaluating 23 PhD applications for a posthumanities-themed PhD position at Network for gender research.

Call: Posthumanities-PhD at UiS

Here is the call for applications for a posthumanities-themed PhD position at University of Stavanger (see also previous post),

PhD application evaluation committee

I have agreed to be a member of the evaluation committee for a PhD call related to Network for gender research at University of Stavanger. The PhD position will be working on a posthumanities theme.

Posthumanism vs. prehumanism

Posthumanism?

I rather believe we are NOT YET fully human.

I therefore adhere to prehumanism.

New Uexkull translations to be reviewed

Around the time of my visit to Tartu the last week of November I received the news that a new translation of Jakob von Uexküll has just been published:

A FORAY INTO THE WORLDS OF ANIMALS AND HUMANS, with A Theory of Meaning
By Jakob von Uexküll
Translated by Joseph D. O'Neil
Introduction by Dorion Sagan
Afterword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young
University of Minnesota Press | 280 pages | 2010

The book is published as volume 12 of the Posthumanities series.

It is neither the first nor the last time these texts are translated, but it will be interesting to compare it with both the originals (Bedeutungslehre and Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen) and the other existing translation of each text.

I have now scheduled with my supervisor Kalevi Kull that I will, as an assignment for the doctoral seminar of autumn 2010, carry out a review of the translation (whether for publication or not).

Uexküllian Foray

It was only yesterday that I discovered that a new translation of Uexküll has been published by University of Minnesota Press, in the Posthumanities series (volume 12). The book is entitled A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans - with A Theory of Meaning, and envelops - surprise surprise - Streifzüge plus Bedeutungslehre. I am looking forward to check out the translation (which has been carried out by Joseph D. O'Neil).