The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities

Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Marjan Ivković, Daan F. Oostveen

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Assesses the rise of the ‘New’ Humanities alongside the traditional disciplines and inter-disciplinary ‘studies’ areas

Takes an original approach in its European scope and institutional representation
Focusses on the ‘New’ or ‘Post’ Humanities
Incorporates an exceptional degree of inter and trans-disciplinarity, covering areas including the intercultural humanities, post- and decolonial perspectives, digital humanities, medical humanities, environmental humanities and more
Draws from many European languages and traditions
Combines theoretical speculation with policy-making pragmatism

This is the first collection that highlights the strengths and contributions of the Humanities in the European region. The volume stresses the positive and multidimensional impact of the Humanities on core areas of human experience, and their ability to formulate new frames to represent our collective and individual relation to the world. Further, it explores new ethical social imaginaries, gendered scenarios and spaces of decolonial transculturality.

Contents

Notes on Contributors

List of Illustrations

Preface, Rosi Braidotti and Hiltraud Casper-Hehne

Introduction - Humanities: Always Already in Transformation? Network for the European Humanities in the Twenty-First Century, Rosi Braidotti, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Marjan Ivković and Daan F. Oostveen

I. The Humanities in Action: Topics and Methods

1. On the Emergence and Convergence of the New Transversal Humanities, Rosi Braidotti and Daan F. Oostveen

2. Shaping the Integration of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research, Bianca Vienni Baptista, Isabel Fletcher, Jack Spaapen, Doireann Wallace and Jane Ohlmeyer

3. Synergies between Humanities, Science and Technology: A Transformative Understanding of the Humanities in the Twenty-First-Century, David Bueno, Josep Casanovas, Marina Garcés and Josep M. Vilalta

II. Humanities, Democracy and Civic Responsibility

4. The University and the City, Antonino Rotolo and Cristina Gamberi

5. Humanities in Post-COVID-19-Times: Challenges and Opportunities, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne and Christina Henkel

6. Public Humanities Today: Between Community Engagement and Social Critique, Marjan Ivković and Đurđa Trajković

Part III: Intercultural Perspectives and Changing Patterns in the New Humanities

7. Intercultural Humanities: What They Are and What They Can Do, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne and Christina Henkel

8. Changing Patterns of Self-Other Interaction in the Contemporary World, Henrietta L. Moore and Juan M. Moreno

9. Post- and Decolonial Perspectives on the Humanities Curriculum, Tanja Reiffenrath

10. Digital and Posthuman Narratives in Literature, Cristina Gamberi

IV. The New Humanities
IV.1 Public Humanities: Concepts and Perspectives

11. Towards Critical Public Humanities, Marjan Ivković and Đurđa Trajković

12. Transmedia Science Fiction and New Social Imaginaries, Raffaella Baccolini, Giuliana Benvenuti, Chiara Elefante and Rita Monticelli

13. European Archaeological Research at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, Luiz Oosterbeek

IV.2 Digital Humanities: Emerging Paradigms

14. Humanities in a Digital World, Caroline Sporleder and Franziska Pannach

15. Artificial Intelligence and New Paradigms for Human Decision Making: Towards a New Idea of Humanity?Antonino Rotolo

IV.3 Environmental Humanities

16. The Environmental Humanities: European Perspectives on How a Field is Addressing Twenty-first-Century Global Challenges, Steven Hartman, Serpil Oppermann, and Marco Armiero

17. Feminist Posthumanities: Redefining and Expanding Humanities’ Foundations, Cecilia Åsberg and Rosi Braidotti

IV.4 Medical Humanities

18. Medical Humanities: Concepts, Practices, and Perspectives, Rosi Braidotti and Daan F. Oostveen

19. Medical Humanities With and Beyond Bioethics – Disciplinary Diversification in Medicine Facing the Complexity of the Bio-Cultural Corporeality, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio

20. From Single Human Disease to a Holistic One Health Approach, Hélène Verheije and Arjan Stegeman

V: The Humanities as Building Blocks for Future Sciences

21. In the Shadows of a Pandemic: Humanities in European Research and Innovation, THE GUILD, Jan Palmowski

22. Humanities for Science / Policy for Humanities, The European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities EASSH, Gabi Lombardo

23. Where Next for the Humanities? Perspectives from Across Europe, Juan M. Moreno and Henrietta L. Moore

Conclusion, Rosi Braidotti, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Marjan Ivković, Daan F. Oostveen

Index

Reviews

This stimulating, future-oriented collection clarifies a distinctively European perspective now emerging in the humanities. The critical sophistication of the approach to social relevance, the articulation of close connections with the social, physical and medical sciences, and the alertness to differences in the cultural situations, institutional settings, and the mediating languages and technologies of humanistic knowledge, will do much to sharpen understanding and encourage collaboration in Europe and beyond.
– Helen Small, University of Oxford

About the Author

Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Honorary Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is a feminist Continental philosopher and she holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011); The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019); Posthuman Feminism (2022); The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022).

Hiltraud Casper-Hehne is Professor of Intercultural German Studies/Language Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. She initiated the project "Interculture" within the framework of the EU university programme Asia-Link between Europe and China. She was Vice-President for International Affairs at the University of Göttingen, a member of the Board of the HERA network and a member of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group. She also chaired the Council of Experts for the Development of a China Strategy of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Since 2018, she has been a member of the EU-Ad- hoc Expert Group on European Universities.

Marjan Ivković is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

Daan F. Oostveen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Culture Inquiry and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He studied philosophy and comparative literature at Ghent University. His PhD from the Faculty of Religion and Theology of VU Amsterdam is on multiple religious belonging. In 2018, he undertook research at the Renmin University of China in Beijing, where he studied Chinese religious diversity. His research interests include comparative religion, posthuman philosophy, and the new humanities.

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