<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><strong>The Centre for Ideas</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><strong>'In Flesh and Blood: Animals in Art and Philosophy'</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><strong>Part 3: </strong><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>Keynote speaker: </strong></span><strong>Andrew Benjamin</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>FRIDAY 11 MAY</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>Time 10.30 – 5.30 pm</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>Venue: Federation Hall, VCA, 234 St Kilda Road and Grant Street, Southbank</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>Free event – no booking required</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>Programme:</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>10.30 am to 1 pm: RESPONDING TO DERRIDA AND ANIMALS</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>Speakers: Elizabeth Presa, Keren Shlezinger and James Muldoon</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>• </strong></span><strong>Elizabeth Presa (CFI), 'Skin deep'</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>Starting with Derrida’s discussion, in volume 1 of <em>The Beast and the Sovereign</em>, of a question</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>once posed to Levinas: “Does the Animal have a face?”, I explore through Levinas, Rilke and</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>others, how one might come to understand what a face can be and how such an</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>understanding may contribute to a more imaginative engagement with other beings in the</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>world.</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>• </strong></span><strong>Keren Shlezinger (Monash Univ.), 'The Shame of Being an Animal and Yet Not One'</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>In 'The Animal That Therefore I Am', Derrida recounts his embarrassment and sense of</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>exposure at being regarded naked by his cat. According an animal the status of <em>one who can</em></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong><em>look at me </em>interrupts the humanist project and becomes the starting point for Derrida's</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>argument for the 'absolute singularity' of all living things. J. M. Coetzee’s 'The Old Woman and</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>the Cats' depicts a similar scene of shame. Like Derrida, the fictional philosopher Elizabeth</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>Costello is moved by a singular encounter with a cat to reconfigure her response to others in</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>general; however this response follows a markedly different path from Derrida's. Here I want</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>to consider the different kinds of shame we might feel before animals. How might one be</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>shamed (by others) or ashamed (for oneself) for having been, in the first instance, ashamed?</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>These questions will be explored via consideration of the Australian public's response to the</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>recent ‘exposure,’ via televised images from Indonesian slaughterhouses, of the ‘inhumane’</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>practices of the live export industry.</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>• </strong></span><strong>James Muldoon (Monash University), 'The Figure of the Animal in Hegel'</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>Derrida argues in <em>l’Animal que donc je suis </em>that philosophy has been constituted since its</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>inception by a founding exclusion and subordination of the animal. Derrida's proposition allows</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>us to look back on philosophy and call into question that which distinguishes the 'being'</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>of human beings from other non-human animals. In this paper I will argue that Hegel's</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong><em>Philosophy of Right </em>is an attempt to purify human beings of their animal origin and produce a</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>universal political subject freed from instances of particularity and animality.</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>1 to 1.30 pm: CONCERT by the group <em>The Donkey's Tail</em></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>2 to 4.30 pm: SESSION AROUND THE WORK OF ANDREW BENJAMIN</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>An internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>theory, Andrew Benjamin has consistently explored the relationship between philosophy and</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>the history of art in his work. Recently that relationship has allowed him to analyze what he</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>calls the ‘figure of the Jew’ and the ‘figure of the animal’ within both the history of philosophy</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>and the history of art. Both these figures have been constructed by philosophy as that which</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>needs to be excluded—with philosophy, as traditionally conceived, being founded upon such</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>a gesture of exclusion. Overcoming exclusion involves an undoing of these figures</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>and potentially a transformation of the philosophical itself.</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>In the first part of this session, an analysis of Benjamin’s book <em>Of Jews and Animals</em></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>will be presented by:</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>• </strong></span><strong>Adam Geczy (College of Art, University of Sydney), 'On Clothing and Interest. A short</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>supplement to Andrew Benjamin’s <em>Of Jews and Animals.</em>'</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>• </strong></span><strong>Andrew Benjamin will respond to Geczy’s lecture, with discussion following.</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>There will then take place the keynote lecture:</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>• </strong></span><strong>Andrew Benjamin (Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash), 'On the Taming</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>of Animals: Notes after Sophocles'.</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>Discussion will follow.</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><strong>5 pm:</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><strong>• </strong></span><strong>David Shea (CFI), 'On Biomimicry in architecture and design: an overview'</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>Biomimicry is the examination and study of nature—its models, systems, processes and</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>elements—in order to emulate or take inspiration from them towards the solution of human</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>problems. I will look at this emerging field in its application to architecture, design, business</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>systems and sustainable city planning, to name just a few, as well as at the shift in belief</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>taking place globally in our relationship to animals and plants. Collaborations between</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>biologists with inventors, architects and designers have, over the past ten years, created new</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>architectural possibilities in our human relationship with animals and plants that can be applied</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><strong>to solving 21st century post-industrial challenges.</strong></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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