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Post-Anthropocentrism at ۿ۴ý: A State of the Question

Post-Anthropocentrism at ۿ۴ý: A State of the Question
Date
Thu May 12th 2016, 8:30am - 7:00pm
Location
ۿ۴ý Humanities Center Boardroom, Old Union Clubhouse Ballroom, Oregon Courtyard (Pigott Hall)

Breakfast & Introductory Remarks | 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | ۿ۴ý Humanities Center Boardroom
 
Panel 1 | 9:00 AM – 10:50 AM | ۿ۴ý Humanities Center Boardroom
Chair: Zephyr Frank, Professor of History, ۿ۴ý
“The Anthropocene and the Posthuman in Don DeLillo’s Novels”
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Professor of Comparative Literature, Aarhus University
“Bone, Meat, and Brain-Stuff: American Naturalism and the Possibility of Post-Anthropocentric Character”
Victoria Googasian, PhD Candidate in the Department of English, ۿ۴ý
“Language of Animality, Non-Heroic Resistance, and Urban Indigenismo in Montacerdos
Patricia Valderrama, PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, ۿ۴ý
 
Panel 2 | 11:10 AM – 1:00 PM | ۿ۴ý Humanities Center Boardroom
Chair: Ewa Domanska, Professor of Theory and History of Historiography, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan, and Anthropology, ۿ۴ý
“Oil, Sugar, Color, Rhythm”
Rachel Price, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University
“Post-Anthropogenic Making: Exohabitating Atmospheres, Reefs, and Neighborhoods”
David Stentiford, PhD Candidate in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature, ۿ۴ý
“‘Truth as Cadaver’: Material History in Bolaño’s Nocturno de Chile”
Monica VanBladel, PhD Candidate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures, ۿ۴ý
 
Lunch | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | ۿ۴ý Humanities Center Boardroom
 
Keynote Address: “Staying with the Trouble: Making Oddkin in the Chthulucene” | 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Old Union Clubhouse Ballroom
Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz
 
Roundtable Discussion & Closing Remarks | 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM | Old Union Clubhouse Ballroom
All participants, with distinguished guest Rodolfo Dirzo, Bing Professor in Environmental Sciences, ۿ۴ý, and materia faculty coordinators Héctor Hoyos, Ximena Briceño, and Marília Librandi-Rocha, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, ۿ۴ý
 
Dinner | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Oregon Courtyard, Pigott Hall (Bldg 260)
 
 
Generously co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Environmental Humanities Project, the Sense and Sound DLCL Research Unit Workshop, the ۿ۴ý Humanities Center, the Program in Modern Thought and Literature, and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.