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SUMMARY:Cosmopolitan Animals
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LOCATION:London\, United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:<p>Recent  scholarship on human-animal relationships has begun to explore \nour sharing\,  co-existing\, and &lsquo\;becoming with&rsquo\; animals. Such a scholarly\n focus brings into  perspective new possibilities and permutations of \ncosmopolitanism\, calling for  a fresh awareness that animals are fellow \ncreatures\, that hosting and  hospitality are not restricted to \nrelationships between humans\, and that worldliness  is far from being a \nhuman monopoly. In what ways can we conceptualise cosmopolitanisms  \nwhich are not solely &lsquo\;human&rsquo\;\, and where and how are such relationships \nmade  possible? This conference\, under the theme of &lsquo\;Cosmopolitan \nAnimals&rsquo\;\, seeks to  interrogate and decentre humanist metanarratives \nthat have dominated our  thinking and ways of living\, while looking to \nthe many non-human others who  populate the cosmos. Animal \ncosmopolitanism not only raises the serious issues of  our \nresponsibility for\, and responsiveness to\, animal others (Derrida)\, or \nwhat  Isabelle Stengers calls &lsquo\;cosmopolitics&rsquo\;\, which according to \nHaraway\, includes  our &lsquo\;bearing the mortal consequences&rsquo\; for the \ndecisions we make over animal  bodies and worlds.Our \nrapidly inter-linking  world also urgently requires coordination between\n the local and the  international in addressing issues that concern \nhumans and non-humans equally\,  including the detritus of empires and \ntheir aftermaths\, new intensities of  exploitation and commodification\, \nand new pressures of migration\, immigration\,  and circulation that \nseverely test existing ethics of hospitality\, hosting\,  sharing\, and \nco-mingling.</p>\n\n<p>In the spirit of cosmopolitanism which welcomes free-crossings and  \nsurprising encounters\, papers are sought widely from all kinds of \ndisciplines from  an international community of scholars\, activists and \nartists. Possible topics  include\, but are not limited to:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Animal cosmopolitanism </li>\n<li>human-animal communication </li>\n<li>terrapolitanism</li>\n<li>animals and gender</li>\n<li>animalized humans/ humanized animals</li>\n<li>&lsquo\;the posthuman&rsquo\;</li>\n<li>performing animals</li>\n<li>laboratory animals</li>\n<li>animal ethics and the politics of meat</li>\n<li>animals in (post)colonial spaces</li>\n<li>vermin</li>\n<li>the wilderness and wild animals</li>\n<li>domestication\, breeding and pet       keeping</li>\n<li>&lsquo\;companion species&rsquo\;</li>\n<li>micro-organisms\, pathogens and       parasites</li>\n<li>hosting and guesting (with) animals</li>\n<li>animals\, empires\, neoimperialisms </li>\n<li>migration\, immigration and animals</li>\n<li>nomadic animals</li>\n<li>biopolitics and medical science</li>\n<li>conservation\, ecology and climate       change</li>\n<li>technologies and animals</li>\n<li>human-animal studies</li>\n<li>animals in philosophy and literature</li>\n<li>animals in history\, science and       medicine</li>\n<li>music\, art and animals </li>\n<li>imaginary animal</li>\n<li>the politics of creaturely life</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Please send a short abstract  (200-300 words) for 20 minute papers to <a href="mailto:K.Nagai@kent.ac.uk">K.Nagai@kent.ac.uk</a> or <a href="mailto:M.Mattfeld@kent.ac.uk">M.Mattfeld@kent.ac.uk</a> by <strong>January 31\, 2012</strong>.\n We also welcome  proposals for non-paper based presentations (poster\, \nperformance or other  artistic work).</p>\n<p><strong></strong></p>
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