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<b><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:Palatino;font-size:18px" lang="EN-US">A CCAT EVENT:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Palatino" lang="EN-US"></span></b><span style="font-size:24px"><b><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:Palatino" lang="EN-US">What
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Bologna, Italy), A/Prof. Brett Buchanan (Laurentian University, Canada), A/Prof. Jeffrey Bussolini (City University of New York, NY), and Dr. Matthew Chrulew (Curtin)</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:Palatino" lang="EN-US">.</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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<font style="font-size:16px" face="Palatino"><font color="#595959"><span style="line-height:18pt"><b>The Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT), the Reading Culture, Animality and Technology Discussion Group (RCAT), and the Curtin Posthumanism and Technology
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Palatino">Ethological research of the last few decades has taught us that “culture” and “technology” are not the unique possessions of humankind. Long-term observational studies of animals
from chimpanzees to Arabian babblers have revealed among nonhuman societies a great variety of behaviours and mediations irreducible to genetic or environmental determination. These empirical findings challenge many long-held assumptions regarding the mechanicity
of animal life and the exceptionality of human worlds. Yet their consequences have rarely been accounted for, let alone rigorously drawn out, among the humanities and social sciences. This half-day symposium will take a step in this direction by asking: what
is philosophical ethology? Three special issues of <i>Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
</i>have been devoted to introducing this field, presenting the work of important thinkers:
</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Palatino"><a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/19/3" target="_blank">Dominique Lestel</a></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Palatino">,
</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Palatino"><a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/20/2" target="_blank">Vinciane Despret</a></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Palatino"><span style="font-size:16px">
and Roberto Marchesini (forthcoming). In this symposium, speakers working at the intersection of philosophy, anthropology, cultural theory, environmental humanities and animal studies will explore the reconfiguration of concepts of humanity and animality that
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</span><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(76,76,76)"> </span><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><font face="Palatino">Speakers</font></span></b></p>
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<font style="font-size:16px" face="Palatino"><b><span style="line-height:18px">Roberto Marchesini</span></b><span style="line-height:18px"> (Director, Scuola Interazione Uomo Animale and Centro Studi Filosofia Postumanista, Bologna, Italy)</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:16px" face="Palatino"><b><span style="line-height:18px">Brett Buchanan</span></b><span style="line-height:18px"> (Director, School of the Environment and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Laurentian University, Canada)</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:16px" face="Palatino"><b><span style="line-height:18px">Jeffrey Bussolini</span></b><span style="line-height:18px"> (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, City University of New York, USA)</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:16px"><font face="Palatino">Matthew Chrulew</font></span></b><font style="font-size:16px" face="Palatino"> (Research Fellow, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Australia).</font></p>
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</div><br></div></div><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b>Roberto
Marchesini</b> is a veterinary doctor, ethologist, and philosopher who has been
involved in the study of animals since the 1980s. He combines scientific and
philosophical perspectives to address a range of questions about evolution,
behaviour, mind, subjectivity, culture, and ethics. With colleagues he
developed a school of animal interaction and training that is based on treating
animals (dogs, horses, cats, others) as minded interlocutors in a social
interaction, rather than the using negative reinforcement and simple
conditioning. He is the best known exponent of zooanthropology and post
humanism in Italy, and he has developed unique versions of both that can
contribute to the anglophone literature on them. His zooanthropology holds that
culture is present among nonhuman animals and that human culture and identity
are built upon animal references and interactions at every level. His account
of posthumanism focusses on ending the centuries-long delusion by which humans
convinced themselves that they were distinct from the animal realm in paying
heed to our animality and our deep constitutive ties to other animals. His
writings span the gamut from lyric poetry (<i>The
God Pan</i> 1988) to cognitive science (<i>Multiple
Intelligences</i> 2008), zooanthropology (<i>Zooanthropology</i>
2005, 2007, 2014), posthumanism (<i>Posthuman</i>
2002, <i>The Twilight of the Human</i>
2009), and bioethics (<i>The Chimera Factory</i>
1999, <i>Against Animal Rights?</i> 2014). He
was a student of the Italian entomologist and ethologist Giorgio Celli and had
a long collaboration with the astrophysicist Margherita Hack.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b>Brett
Buchanan</b> is Director of the School of the Environment and Associate Professor
and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Laurentian University (Canada).
His work is situated at the intersections of contemporary Continental
philosophy, environmental thought, and animal studies, and in addition to a
number of articles and book chapters he is the author of <i>Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger,
Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze</i> (State U of New York P, 2008). He sits on a
number of scholarly boards and committees, including Wilfrid Laurier University
Press’s “Environmental Humanities” book series, <i>Environmental Humanities</i> journal, and is currently translating
Vinciane Despret’s book <i>Que diraient les
animaux, si…on leur posait les bonnes questions?</i> for the University of
Minnesota Press’s “Posthumanities” series. Together with Matthew Chrulew and
Jeffrey Bussolini, he edited issues 19.3 and 20.2 of <i>Angelaki</i> on the philosophical ethology of Dominique Lestel and
Vinciane Despret.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b>Jeffrey
Bussolini</b> is Associate Professor of Sociology-Anthropology at City University
of New York; and Co-Director, with Ananya Mukherjea, of the Center for Feline
Studies, which has conducted etho-ethnographic study of feline–human
interactions since 1995. He is affiliated with the Scuola di Interazione
Uomo–Animale (School of Human–Animal Interactions) in Bologna, Italy. He
translated Dominique Lestel’s book on animal friendship, <i>The Friends of My Friends</i>, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.
Jeffrey wrote the articles “Toward Cat Phenomenology” in <i>Found Object</i> 8 (Spring 2000) and “Recent French, Belgian, and
Italian Approaches to the Cognitive Science of Animals: Dominique Lestel,
Vinciane Despret, Roberto Marchesini, and Giorgio Celli” in <i>Social Science Information</i> 52.2 (2013),
and appeared as “Feline Sociologist” in the VICE Media film Lil Bub and Friendz
(2013). He has been Visiting Scholar at Macquarie University (CRSI), UNSW (Environmental
Humanities), and the University of Copenhagen (CMSTS).</span></p><br clear="all"><br></span><span>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr Matthew Chrulew<br>Research Fellow, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University<br>Associate Editor, <i>Environmental Humanities</i><br>@negentropist<br><br><div><a href="http://sub.uwpress.org/content/43/2.toc" target="_blank"><i>SubStance</i> 43:2, "Fabled Thought: On Jacques Derrida's <i>The Beast & the Sovereign</i>"</a><br><span><div><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/19/3" target="_blank"><i>Angelaki</i> 19:3, "Philosophical Ethology I: Dominique Lestel"</a><a href="http://sub.uwpress.org/content/43/2.toc" target="_blank"><br></a></div></span></div><div><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/20/2" target="_blank"><i>Angelaki </i>20:2, "Philosophical Ethology II: Vinciane Despret"</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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