[csaa-forum] Animals in Art and Philosophy Symposium

[Ashley Woodward]

ANIMALS in ART and PHILOSOPHY, with Peter Singer keynote lecture

 

Dear all

The Centre for Ideas at the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) is running a symposium series 'In Flesh and Blood: Animals in Art and Philosophy'. The first symposium will take place on Tuesday, 3 April. 

The draft program is as follows:

Morning: 

10.30 – 11.40: Panel around the work of Deleuze and Guattari, with papers by:

Ashley Woodward (M.S.C.P & C.F.I), 'Becoming-Animal in Peter Shaffer’s Equus';

Jon Roffe (M.S.C.P), 'Everything You Wanted to Know About Deleuze and Guattari but were Afraid to Ask Lobsters';

and Timothy Mathieson (art advisor to the Melbourne City Council), 'The Pelican Machine of Helen Martin's Owl House as an effectuation of Deleuze and Guattari's faciality machine'.

11.45 – 12.05: Animals in early film (Victoria Duckett, CFI)

12.15 – 1.15: Philip Adams, choreographer and the BalletLab artistic director, will refer to his past and recent work to discuss notions of extinction and the exotic in nature.

Afternoon:

2-4:  Keynote lecture by Professor Peter Singer (Princeton University and University of Melbourne).

Professor Singer will address the major tenets of his argument, first set out in Animal Liberation, that basic moral principles dictate that human tyranny over nonhuman animals must cease.

Discussion will follow.

4.15 – 5: 'Horses don’t have eyebrows - Animal Representation in Video Games'.

Speakers: Tom Crago (CFI PhD candidate and video game practitioner) and David Shea (CFI).

 

> Venue: Federation Hall, VCA, 234 St Kilda Road, Southbank

ALL WELCOME.  NO REGISTRATION NOR ANY COST.

Inquiries:  louiseburchill at orange.fr



Dr. Ashley Woodward
The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy 
www.mscp.org.au
Editor, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 
www.parrhesiajournal.org
website: http://users.tpg.com.au/phallacy/ashleywoodward

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