[Antiquitas] Symposium: Encounters with Animals In Graeco-Roman Antiquity, 9.12. Tutkijakollegium, Helsinki

[Tua Korhonen]

Hei,

tervetuloa symposiumiin, jossa pääpuhujana on prof. Ingvild Saelid  
Gilhus Bergenin yliopistosta.
Symposium pidetään Helsingin yliopiston Tutkijakollegiumin  
seminaarihuoneessa 9.12.2013 klo 10 alkaen.

Alla linkki tutkijakollegiumin sivulle ja hieman lisätietoa. Tarkempi  
ohjelma ohessa liitetiedostona.

Terv. Tua Korhonen

http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/encounters-with-animals/

ENCOUNTERS WITH ANIMALS IN GRAECO-ROMAN ANTIQUITY:
THE HISTORICITY OF EXPERIENCE

A Multidisciplinary Symposium at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar Room 136, 1st floor
9 Dec. 2013 – Open to all. Welcome!

Organisers: Research Project Empathising with the Non-Human Other in  
Ancient Greek Literature, the SHC Research Community (Subjectivity,  
Historicity and Communality: Studies in Philosophy and Political  
Sciences), the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the  
Department of World Cultures.

This interdisciplinary symposium brings together researchers from the  
fields of classical studies and philosophy, highlighting  
intercorporeal and interspecies relationships in Graeco-Roman  
antiquity, especially as they appear in ancient literature. While  
introducing a phenomenological reading of this literature, the  
symposium also offers space for other approaches and analyses of the  
ancient philosophers' views on animals. In particular, however, we  
wish to question the historicity of human experience of animals, the  
more common emphasis being the historicity of our attitudes and views  
on animals. The point is thus not only to place the ancient attitudes  
and views of animals in their historical context, but to discuss our  
fundamental ability to encounter past attitudes and experiences,  
including the various ways of seeing the difference between the human  
and the non-human.
Ancient philosophers certainly acknowledged differences, but prior to  
Aristotle, they did not see the reasoning faculty as the essential  
distinction between human and non-humans. Moreover, they included in  
their discussions continuities and affinities between humans and  
animals, and thus saw human beings as a more or less privileged class  
or caste among other living beings – not different in kind, but in  
degree. The symposium invites all participants to look critically not  
only into past interpretations of ancient thought, but also into our  
current preferences which may contribute to the formation of bias.


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Tua Korhonen, FT, Kreikan kirjallisuuden dosentti
Maailman kulttuurien laitos, huone A211
PL 24
00014 Helsingin yliopisto
tel. +358-9-191 22159
gms 050 41 54 523

050 53 59 475 (koti)

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