Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities

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.

• Notes on ContributorsList of IllustrationsPreface, Rosi Braidotti and Hiltraud Casper-HehneIntroduction - 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. OostveenI. The Humanities in Action: Topics and Methods1. On the Emergence and Convergence of the New Transversal Humanities, Rosi Braidotti and Daan F. Oostveen2. 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 Ohlmeyer3. 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. VilaltaII. Humanities, Democracy and Civic Responsibility 4. The University and the City, Antonino Rotolo and Cristina Gamberi5. Humanities in Post-COVID-19-Times: Challenges and Opportunities, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne and Christina Henkel6. Public Humanities Today: Between Community Engagement and Social Critique, Marjan Ivković and Đurđa TrajkovićPart III: Intercultural Perspectives and Changing Patterns in the New Humanities7. Intercultural Humanities: What They Are and What They Can Do, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne and Christina Henkel8. Changing Patterns of Self-Other Interaction in the Contemporary World, Henrietta L. Moore and Juan M. Moreno9. Post- and Decolonial Perspectives on the Humanities Curriculum, Tanja Reiffenrath10. Digital and Posthuman Narratives in Literature, Cristina GamberiIV. The New Humanities IV.1 Public Humanities: Concepts and Perspectives 11. Towards Critical Public Humanities, Marjan Ivković and Đurđa Trajković12. Transmedia Science Fiction and New Social Imaginaries, Raffaella Baccolini, Giuliana Benvenuti, Chiara Elefante and Rita Monticelli13. European Archaeological Research at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, Luiz OosterbeekIV.2 Digital Humanities: Emerging Paradigms14. Humanities in a Digital World, Caroline Sporleder and Franziska Pannach15. Artificial Intelligence and New Paradigms for Human Decision Making: Towards a New Idea of Humanity?Antonino RotoloIV.3 Environmental Humanities16. The Environmental Humanities: European Perspectives on How a Field is Addressing Twenty-first-Century Global Challenges, Steven Hartman, Serpil Oppermann, and Marco Armiero17. Feminist Posthumanities: Redefining and Expanding Humanities’ Foundations, Cecilia Åsberg and Rosi BraidottiIV.4 Medical Humanities18. Medical Humanities: Concepts, Practices, and Perspectives, Rosi Braidotti and Daan F. Oostveen19. Medical Humanities With and Beyond Bioethics – Disciplinary Diversification in Medicine Facing the Complexity of the Bio-Cultural Corporeality, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio20. From Single Human Disease to a Holistic One Health Approach, Hélène Verheije and Arjan StegemanV: The Humanities as Building Blocks for Future Sciences21. In the Shadows of a Pandemic: Humanities in European Research and Innovation, THE GUILD, Jan Palmowski22. Humanities for Science / Policy for Humanities, The European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities EASSH, Gabi Lombardo23. Where Next for the Humanities? Perspectives from Across Europe, Juan M. Moreno and Henrietta L. MooreConclusion, Rosi Braidotti, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Marjan Ivković, Daan F. OostveenIndex

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.