--EXTENDED DEADLINE: FEB 15\, 2020--
\nWe welcome paper submissions of no more than 3\,000 words\, that are prepared for a blind review\, and suitable for a 15-20 minute long presentation. \;Applications will be accepted from graduate students as well as scholars unaffiliated with a university. \;
Email your submission (in PDF format) to \;tns.animalhouse@gmail.com \;with &ldquo\;Animalhouse \;Submission&rdquo\; in the subject line. In your email\, please include the following details: (a) author&rsquo\;s name\; (b) paper title\; (c) institutional affiliation\; (d) contact information\; and (e) abstract of no more than 250 words. Please do not include your name on the paper you are submitting. \;
\;CFP (Extended Deadline: Feb 15\, 2020):
The relationship between animals and their environs has become one of the paramount political concerns of our time. \;A recent UN Report asserts that climate change currently threatens one million plant and animal species with extinction and that this declining biodiversity is already taking its toll on human life. \;While a particular urgency motivates current discussions of animate life and its habitat\, examining this relationship has yielded significant philosophical development throughout the 20th century. \;Consider\, for instance\, how \;Jakob von Uexkü\;ll&rsquo\;s concept of the \;umwelt \;influenced Heidegger\, Merleau-Ponty\, and Deleuze\; or\, consider Hans Jonas&rsquo\;s assertion that standard ethical paradigms falter insofar as they fail to recognize our responsibility to the environment\; or\, consider the posthumanist tradition that aims to unsettle rigid distinctions between &ldquo\;the&rdquo\; human\, &ldquo\;the&rdquo\; animal\, and their proper domains. This conference seeks to develop and examine these traditions\, further interrogating the relation of these two shifting concepts: the animal and its environs.
We invite participants to question if and how philosophy&rsquo\;s treatment of animals and their environs can help us make sense of our current situation. \;How have considerations of habitat\, dominion\, and domesticity determined the (ethical\, ontological\, rhetorical) status of animals? Conversely\, how have presuppositions about &ldquo\;the animal&rdquo\; informed what environs are proper to &ldquo\;man&rdquo\;? What would it mean for an animal to be &ldquo\;at home&rdquo\; in the current world? Can philosophical approaches to animals be more than an instrumentalizing procedure? How will climate change alter not only the vitality of a species but the very grounds from which it lays claim to a home? \;
This conference welcomes papers that address these themes in the history of philosophy as well as interdisciplinary approaches. \;
Topics may include but are not limited to: \;
All submissions are due on or before Feb 15\, 2020.
\nFor any other questions or inquiries\, please email \;tns.animalhouse@gmail.com
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