[H-verkko] CFP: Human-Animal Studies Conference, 7-9 August 2018 Turku, Finland

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Agricolan artikkelipyyntöihin on lähetetty uusi ilmoitus:
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Human-Animal Studies Conference, 7-9 August 2018 Turku, Finland
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Call for Papers:

(Un)common worlds: Contesting the limits of human–animal communities
Human-Animal Studies Conference — 7–9 August 2018 Turku, Finland


Humans and other animals share spaces and create communities together. They
touch each other in various symbolic and material ways, constantly crossing and
redrawing communal, ethical and very practical boundaries. As of late, this
multifarious renegotiation of human-animal relations has sparked intense debates
both in the public arena and in academia.


For instance, Bruno Latour argues that the anthropocene (marking the massive
human impact on ecosystems) creates a new territory in which traditional
subject/object separations are no longer useful. What is called for is the
transgressing or dissolving of these limits in order to “distribute agency as
far and in as differentiated a way as possible” (Latour 2014, 16). Various
inclusive, more-than-human notions, such as ‘cosmopolitics’ (Stengers 2010)
or ’common worlds’ (Latour 2004) are brought forward to this end. These
discussions highlight what is becoming a core challenge for various disciplines
and fields of study: how to live together in complex places, spaces and
societies, with intersecting and overlapping borders and traces of cultures,
histories and politics. Furthermore, the discussions bring forth the question of
how to work against the premises of exclusive human agency and interest in order
to explore and imagine multispecies futures.


However, the various conceptualisations of inclusive, common worlds entail a
risk of disregarding or devaluing that which is not shared: the aspects of
multispecies lives that cannot be or become common but that nevertheless matter
for shared existences. There is also the issue of becoming “common” – of
territorialisations and inclusions of some beings to the exclusion of others.
What will remain the “uncommon” (i.e. unconventional) in common worlds?
Moreover, are common worlds envisaged as free of political struggles and
borders? What are the politics of becoming common and remaining uncommon?


With this Call we invite you to discuss and develop ideas about human-animal
worlds both common and uncommon. We invite presentations to this
interdisciplinary conference from various fields, including but not limited to
social sciences, law, arts and humanities, and natural and environmental
sciences. We also invite artists to present their work. If you are interested in
this option, please contact the organizers to discuss your ideas.

 

Keynote speakers: 
Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde), Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford)
and Helena Telkänranta (University of Bristol and University of Helsinki)


Submission guidelines:
Please send your abstract (max. 250 words) by e-mail to
uncommonworlds2018 at gmail.com no later than February 28, 2018. Please include in
your submission the title of your presentation, your name, affiliation, and
contact information. We will notify you of acceptance on March 2017.

Conference website: 
https://uncommonworlds.wordpress.com

 

 

 

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Heta Lähdesmäki <hailah at utu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 1.3.2018
Lisätietoja WWW-osoitteesta: https://uncommonworlds.wordpress.com/