[Commlist] Call for abstracts interdisciplinary Critical Animal Studies Graduate Conference

You are kindly invited to submit an abstract to the conference organized 
by The New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca’ 
Foscari University of Venice & Institute of Philosophy, 
Kulturwissenschaften Faculty at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, next October.

Deadline for abstract submission: April 30th 2023

The concepts of zoopolitics and biopolitics (following Foucault’s 
theorization) have traditionally been addressed separately, based 
respectively on a – contested (Derrida) but philosophically pregnant 
(Agamben) –distinction of /zoé /and /bios/.

However, we think that these terms need to be articulated together to 
address the multispecies composition of contemporary natureculture 
assemblages and their /lively capital/ (Haraway; Helmreich).

The always situated lines running through humanity and animality, the 
animate and the inanimate (Chen), the organic and the machinic 
(Haraway), what is deemed worth living, saving, preserving and what is 
expendable and killable, are, at once, dividing and implicating: it is 
around such ideological and material boundaries that the logic and 
apparatuses of exploitation, extractivism, marginalization, domination 
are structured and sustained. Today, biopolitics (Foucault), 
techno-biopolitics (Haraway), zoopolitics (Agamben, Derrida), molecular 
biopolitics (N. Rose) necropolitics (Mbembe) show how animal life and 
death are increasingly defined and managed in order to be capitalized, 
starting from the very appearance of life itself.

Following the principles of Critical Animal Studies, we thus adopt a 
holistic approach to confront oppressions (Fitzgerald and Pellow), 
shared exploitation and vulnerability, but also to put liveability and 
flourishing according to a total liberation framework to the forefront 
(Best, White, Nocella II).

In this spirit, the conference welcomes both theoretical and 
empirically-oriented papers on topics /critically addressing/ the 
politics of life and death of nonhuman animals from the fields of the 
Humanities and the Social Science. Media and Communication scholars are 
welcomed.

The conference is free access and will be held in person in both venues 
and online as well. Presenters are requested to be in person in the 
venue that they prefer.
Read the full call here: https://www.unive.it/data/33113/26/72420 
<https://www.unive.it/data/33113/26/72420>
where you can also find the link to the google form for your submission.

For any question, please write to:


      (zoopolitics.conference /at/ gmail.com)


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