2022

In this international and interdisciplinary symposium, we seek to explore human communicative behavior beyond the idea of languages as ordered grammatical and lexical resources that are used by particular cohorts of people. In line with contemporary posthumanist thought that questions body-mind/ nature-culture dualisms (see e.g. Braidotti 2013, Pennycook 2018, Pepperell 2003), we particularly focus on the corporal, material and technological conditions of human interaction and on the relationship between material realities and discourse. Watch the videos by Alastair Pennycook, Annelies Kusters, Carmel Vaisman, Crispin Thurlow, Erez Levon, Marie-Theres Fester-Seeger, Michele Zappavigna, Miriam Lind and Stephen Cowley.