Dear All,
A final reminder for the UCL Humanity and Animality conference. Please find the registration details and the conference programme at: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/humanity-and-animality-in-20th-and-21st-century-culture-narratives-theories-histories-an-tickets-12769440741?aff=es2
If you are interested in attending the conference, please choose the session(s) you would like attend from the multiple choice menu.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Stefano Bellin
University College London (UCL)
Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies
in collaboration with the
Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry
HUMANITY AND ANIMALITY IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY CULTURE:
NARRATIVES, THEORIES, HISTORIES. AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
15th-16th September, 2014
Monday 15th September:
9.00 | Registration (Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre)
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9.30
| Welcome (Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre)
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9.45- 12.00 | Round table 1: Animals, Ecologies, Apocalypse (Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre)
Dr. Damiano Benvegnù (University of Virginia, Italian) and Prof. Robert S. C. Gordon (Cambridge University, Italian): Primo Levi’s Animals
Dr. Martin Crowley (Cambridge University, French): How many ecologies? How many worlds?
Dr. Florian Mussgnug (UCL, Italian/Comparative Literature): Animal Apocalypse
Chair: Dr. Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge University, Italian)
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12.00-13.30 | Panel 1 A: H&A in Comparative Literature (Malet Place Eng 1.02 Lecture Theatre)
Natalie Woodward (Royal Holloway, English): Talking about “the Horrors”: Articulating Creatureliness in Holocaust Literature
Dr. Julia Hoydis (University of Cologne, English): Alien Creatures Between Folklore and Technology: Humanity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber
Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa (UCL, Comparative Literature): A Radio in the Sand, or: Depictions of Human Animality in Driss Chraibi’s French-Moroccan Detective Story L’enquete au pays (1981) and Abe Kobo’s Absurd Japanese Novel Suna no onna 砂の女 /The Woman in the Dunes (1961)
Chair: Dr. Jessica George (Cardiff University, English)
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| Panel 1 B: H&A in Literature and Culture (Malet Place Eng 1.03 Lecture Theatre)
Dr. Eugenio Bolongaro (McGill University, Italian): The Claim of Life in Italo Calvino’s La giornata d’uno scrutatore: Imagining Post-Humanist Relationality
Dr. Vilma De Gasperin (Oxford University, Italian): The Thorn in the Lion’s Paw: The Wounded Creature in Anna Maria Ortese
Dr. Vassiliki Petsa (University of Peloponnese, Political Science and International Relations): Beyond Sovereign Politics: Aspects of ‘Creaturely Life’ as Strategies of Resistance and Vehicles of Utopian Prospects in Greek and Italian Literature
Chair: Dr. Federica Mazzara (UCL, Italian/BASc)
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13.30-14.30 | Break
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14.30-16.00
| Panel 2 A: Postcolonial Animalities in Art, Graphic Novels and Films (Malet Place Eng 1.02 Lecture Theatre)
Dr. Matthew Whittle (University of Manchester): Lost trophies: Hunting animals and anti-colonial resistance in Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa and Walton Ford’s Pancha Tantra
Dr. Jade Munslow Ong (University of Salford, Nineteenth-Century Literature): “I’m only a dog!”: The Rwandan Genocide, Dehumanisation and the Graphic Novel
Dr. Veronica Barnsley (University of Sheffield): Childhood and Animality in Ben Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild
Chair: Dr. Jean-Paul Martinon (Goldsmiths College, Visual Cultures)
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| Panel 2 B: H&A in Contemporary Thought (Malet Place Eng 1.03 Lecture Theatre)
Lucia Zaietta (University of Turin, Philosophy): We are not only among Human Beings: Rethinking Animality throughout Merleau-Ponty
Michael Lyons (Trinity College Dublin, Philosophy): Korsgaard and Kantian Duties to Animals
Giovanni Menegalle (Cambridge University, French): Derrida and the Limits of the Human: Between Phenomenology and a General Ontology of the Living
Chair: Prof. Mairéad Hanrahan (UCL, French)
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16.00-16.30 | Break
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16.30-18.00 | Panel 3 A: H&A in Art, Film, and Critical Theory (Malet Place Eng 1.02 Lecture Theatre)
Dr. Barbara Rauch (OCAD University, Art, Media & Design): Synthetic Emotions of Hybrids
Maria Giménez Cavallo (Columbia University, Film Studies): For a Pythagorean, Posthumanist, Transcendental Cinema: an Analysis of Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le quattro volte
Rodolfo Piskorski (Cardiff University, Critical and Cultural Theory): Performing (and Becoming) the Animal From the 19th to the 21st Century
Chair: Dr. Stephanie Eichberg (UCL, History of Medicine/Science and Technology Studies)
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| Panel 3 B: H&A between Antiquity and Modernity (Malet Place Eng 1.03 Lecture Theatre)
Francesca Spiegel (Hellenic Studies, Humboldt University Berlin): Bestialization and Otherness in Greek Tragedy
Alice Hazard (King’s College, French): Levinasian Inter-Species Encounters: a Medieval Case-Study
Dr. Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston University, Philosophy): Taming the Therion: from Plato to Agamben
Chair: Dr. Jane Gilbert (UCL, French)
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18.15-19.15 | Keynote Lecture (Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre)
Dr. Anat Pick (Queen Mary, Film Studies): Criminal Animals: From War Machine to Vegan Cinema
Chair: Dr. Florian Mussgnug (UCL, Italian/Comparative Literature)
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Tuesday 16th September:
9.00 | Registration (Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre)
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9.15-11.30 | Round table 2: Languages of Confinement and of Inclusion (Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre)
Dr. Gavin Weston (Goldsmiths College, Anthropology): “Human zoos”, Human Rights & Relative Humanity: Ethnological Expositions Between the 19th and 21st Century
Prof. Guy Cook (King’s College, Language in Education): ‘I am a daughter myself’: exploring the language of the human animal boundary
Dr. Daniel Abondolo (UCL, SSEES): Why is a Squirrel’s Tail in the Back?
Chair: Dr. Stephanie Bird (UCL, German)
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11.40-13:30 | Panel 4 A: H&A in Anthropology, Post-Colonial Studies, and Evolutionary Theory (Malet Place Eng 1.02 Lecture Theatre)
Daniel West (Oxford University, Geography and the Environment): Stig of the Lab: The Science, Ethics and Politics of Neanderthal Representation
Kathleen Bryson (UCL, Evolutionary Anthropology): Ambiguity and Evolutionary Theory: Towards a New Gradualist Paradigm?
Charis Bredin (SOAS, Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies): Divine Signs and Desert Worlds: Animals in the Libyan Literary Imaginary
Dr. Francesca Zunino (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia/King’s College, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies): An Integrated Human-Animal-Spiritual Identity: Past and Present Mexican Narratives
Chair: (tbc)
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| Panel 4 B: H&A in Contemporary Literature and Critical Theory (Malet Place Eng 1.03 Lecture Theatre)
Thea Petrou (UCL, French): Jacques Roubaud’s Talking Animals
Stefano Rossoni (UCL, Comparative Literature): Readings of Kafka’s Report to an Academy in the Narrative of Philip Roth and J. M. Coetzee
Ti-Han Chang (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Institut d’Etudes Transculturelles et Transtextuelles): From Poetic Language and the Sympathetic Imagination to the “Voices” of the Animal Other: An Analysis of the Postcolonial Eco-literatures of J.M. Coetzee and Wu Ming-yi
Alex Marshall (University of Oxford, German): Jackals, Arabs, and Diaspora: Talking Animals, Zionism and Othered Minds in a Kafka’s Short Story
Chair: Prof. Timothy Mathews (UCL, French)
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13.30-14.30 | Break
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14.30-16.15 | Panel 5 A: H&A in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Drama (Malet Place Eng 1.02 Lecture Theatre)
Dr. Vladimir Alexander Smith-Mesa (UCL, SSEES): Towards Harmony: Animality, Cuban Arts and the Aesthetics of the Revolution
Janhavi Mittal (King’s College, English): ‘Cripplewood is not dead wood’: Patchwork Boundaries and Posthuman Ethics
Alexandra Paddock (University of Oxford, English): “What colour is Nugget?” Seeing Animals in Twentieth and Twenty-first-century Drama
Polly Gould (UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture): No More Elsewhere: Antarctica Through the Archive of the Edward Wilson (1872-1912) Watercolours
Chair: Dr. Marta Niccolai (UCL, Italian)
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| Panel 5 B: H&A in Philosophy, Law, and Political Thought (Malet Place Eng 1.03 Lecture Theatre)
Paul Raekstad (University of Cambridge, Philosophy): Human Nature as Freedom: Karl Marx on Consciousness, Humanity, and Animality
Dr. Matthew Wraith (Imperial College, Literature and Humanities): ‘Creatures that Swarm and Multiply in a Drop of Water’ – Animal Collectives and Mass Politics in Early Twentieth Century Thought and Culture
Catia Faria and Dr. Eze Paez (Pompeu Fabra University, Law): Humanity and Domesticity: Two Versions of the Same Prejudice
Rosa María De la Torre Torres & Prof. Aldo Ulises Olmedo Castillo (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Constitutional Law and General Coordinator of the Research group Animal Law (GIDA); Faculty of Law and Social Sciences): Legal and Ethical Reclassification of Non-human Animals in Mexican Law
Chair: Dr. Hugh Goodacre (UCL, Economics)
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| Panel 5 C: H&A in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre)
Seán McCorry (University of Sheffield, English): Literacy, Bêtise and the Production of Species Difference in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Antonia Peroikou (University of Cyprus, English): ‘Only not for us’: Writing Across the Species Boundary in Kafka and Benjamin
Dr. Jessica George (Cardiff University, English): ‘The speeches all theirs and never yours’: Language, identity, and animal transformation in Gwyneth Lewis’s The Meat Tree
Chair: Dr. Stephanie Eichberg (UCL, History of Medicine/Science and Technology Studies)
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16.15-16.45
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16.45-18.45 | Round table 3: Human-Animal Relations in Philosophy and Critical Theory (Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre)
Dr. Kevin Inston (UCL, French): The Human-Animal Relation in the Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dr. Ian James (Cambridge University, French): The Non-human Relation
Dr. Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield (University of Colorado, French and Italian): Negative Compassion: Derrida and Post-Human Ethics
Chair: Prof. Timothy Mathews (UCL, French)
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19.00 | Conclusion (Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre)
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