Week 1: Contexts
Lesson 1: Contexts 1: Technologies
Lesson 2: Contexts 2: Humanism and its Critiques: Feminism, Critical Race Theory and Postcolonialism [
Lesson 3: Contexts 3: The Environment
Lesson 4: Transhumanism
Lesson 5: Popular Posthumanism
Week 2: Critical Posthumanism: Genealogies
Lesson 1: New Materialism
Lesson 2: Human-Animal Studies
Lesson 3: Consciousness / Cognition Studies and the Posthuman
Lesson 4: Feminist Epistemologies, Ethics & Posthumanism
Lesson 5: Disability Studies
Week 3: Posthuman Bodies
Lesson 1: Posthuman Bodies: Cyborg Bodies I
Lesson 2: Posthuman Bodies: Cyborg Bodies II – Gender and Cyborgs
Lesson 3: Posthuman Biology
Lesson 4: Biotech, Biocapitalism and Posthuman Bodies/Biology
Lesson 5: Biopolitics and Biocapitalism in Contemporary Literature
Week 4: Companion Species & Multispecies
Lesson 1: The Question of the Nonhuman I
Lesson 2: The Question of the Nonhuman II
Lesson 3: Companion Species & Multispecies I
Lesson 4: Companion Species & Multispecies II: Transcorporeal Trauma
Lesson 5: Multispecies in Contemporary Literature
Week 5: Posthuman Art, Aesthetics and Literature
Lesson 1: Posthuman Art
Lesson 2: Posthuman Performance Arts
Lesson 3: Literary Posthumanisms I
Lesson 4: Literary Posthumanisms II: Feminist Speculative Fiction: Octavia E Butler (Sreelakshmy M.)
Lesson 5: Literary Posthumanism III: Group Discussion – Anna Kurian, Saradindu Bhattacharya(University of Hyderabad)
Week 6: Posthuman Subjects: Politics and Ethics
Lesson 1: Posthuman Subjects I
Lesson 2: Posthuman Subjects II
Lesson 3: Posthuman Subjects and Ethics I
Lesson 4: Posthuman Subjects and Ethics II
Lesson 5: Posthuman Vulnerability, Ethics and Contemporary Literature
Week 7: Posthumanism and the Anthropocene
Lesson 1: The Environment and Posthumanism
Lesson 2: The Posthuman, the Anthropocene and the Post-natural in Contemporary Literature I
Lesson 3: Posthumanism, the Anthropocene and the Post-natural in Contemporary Literature II
Lesson 4: Posthumanism and Care
Lesson 5: Posthumanism and the Anthropocene: GroupDiscussion - Sreelakshmy M, Akshata S. Pai, Pramod K Nayar (University of Hyderabad)
Week 8: Alter-bodies and Enhancement
Lesson 1: Human Enhancement (Francesca Ferrando, NYU)
Lesson 2: Moral Enhancement (Asijit Datta, SRM)
Lesson 3: Posthuman Sports
Lesson 4: Moral Enhancement and Contemporary Literature: Octavia Butler’s Hyperempaths(Sreelakshmy M)
Lesson 5: Literary Posthumanism IV: Group Discussion – Anna Kurian, Saradindu Bhattacharya(University of Hyderabad)
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