[csaa-forum] Symposium; Thinking with Animals: Fables of Thought

[Anne Brewster]

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>Dear Colleague,
>
>The School of English, University of New South Wales, invites you to a day
>symposium on the subject of animals in philosophy, literature and film:
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>Thinking with Animals: Fables of Thought
>Keynote speakers: Prof. Andrew Benjamin (UTS), Prof. Paul Patton (UNSW)
>
>Throughout Western civilization, animals have been denied those qualities
>that traditionally designate human sovereignty: reason, language, a soul,
>an ethical relation to death or to the world. Especially since the 1970s,
>however, the hegemony of this view of animals has been challenged. Scholars
>in all fields are now paying close attention to the ways in which thinking
>about animals calls into question the sovereignties of the human subject.
>As Emmanuel Levinas has written: "Those animals that portray men [in fables]
>give the fable its particular color inasmuch as men are seen as these animals
>and not only through these animals; the animals stop and fill up thought.
>It is in this that all the power and originality of allegory lies". With
>papers in the disciplines of philosophy, literature, film and 
>cultural studies,
>this symposium seeks to interrogate our relation to animals by first 
>acknowledging
>the great debt thought owes to them.
>
>Date: Tues Nov. 29, 2005
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>Venue: Room 211 Morven Brown Building, Gate 8, University of New South Wales,
>Kensington.
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>Cost: $20 (full); $10 (student)
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>For further information visit http://www.thinkingwithanimals.com
>or contact
>Dr Chris Danta
>c.danta at unsw.edu.au
>02 93853248
>
>RSVP desirable
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