[Dino] seminar about animals and Monika Fagerholm, among other things

[Ann-Sofie Lönngren]

This might be of interest to some of you ...

/ a-s



Welcome to Queering Animal Studies ? Animaling Queer Studies

This is a release-seminar for the Nordic lgbt-journal lambda nordica  
no 4, 2011, special issue on ?Animals?; a joint arrangement between  
Queerseminariet at Uppsala university, lambda nordica, and the  
HumAnimal Group at Uppsala university. The issue will be available to  
a reduced prize at this special occasion.

OBS! This seminar is in English

Participants

Malin Ah-King, evolutionary biologist and gender researcher at Center  
for Gender Research, Uppsala university, has written her article in  
lambda nordica about the enormous variation in sex and sexuality among  
animals. How has this diversity been explained by evolutionary theory,  
in which heteronormativity is abundant? And how can we aim for a  
non-normative evolutionary biology?

Ann-Sofie Lönngren, researcher at the department of Literature,  
Uppsala university, has written her article about literary  
transformations from human to animal in Monika Fagerholm?s short story  
?Patricia Kanin (?Patricia Rabbit?), 1990. Employing posthumanist and  
feminist material approaches, Lönngren discusses how the figuration of  
transformation in ?Patricia Kanin? enlightens the heteronormative and  
ethnifying social and political processes through which a human body  
is denied or granted humanity.

Helena Pedersen, researcher at Malmö Högskola, holds a Ph.D. in  
Education from Gothenburg University. She conducts research in the  
intersection of critical education theory, critical animal studies,  
and posthumanism, and has taught animal studies at Uppsala University,  
Karolinska Institute, Valand School of Fine arts, and Gothenburg  
University. In her contribution to lambda nordica, she introduces the  
intersection between queer theory and animal studies.

Time: 20 december 2011. The seminar starts at 17.15 and ends 19, at  
the latest. Then there is a postseminar funded by lambda nordica.

Location: 3-0028, house three, level zero, Humanistiskt Centrum,  
Engelska parken, Uppsala University obs!

If you have any questions concerning availability, location etc,  
please don´t hesitate to contact ann-sofie.lonngren(a)littvet.uu.se

-- 
Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Fil.Dr. (Ph.D.)
Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen (Department of Literature)
Uppsala universitet (Uppsala university)
Box 632, 751 26 Uppsala
Tel: 018-4716188
Hemsida (homepage):  
http://www.littvet.uu.se/om_oss/personal/hemsidor_k-r/ann-sofie_lonngren/
Alternativ e-mail (alternative e-mail): ann-sofie.lonngren at lambdanordica.se
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