This event is one of the Mellon - Posthuman events.
Please join us for a graduate student panel; presenters include dissertators from Sociology and English whose work incorporates or responds to the field of the posthuman.
Cary Wolfe
Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University
Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context
March 26, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
1800 Engineering Hall
This event is one of the Mellon - Posthuman events.
Professor Wolfe’s books and edited collections on American culture and critical theory include _Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside"_ (Minnesota, 1998), _Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory_ (Chicago, 2003), and _Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal_ (Minnesota, 2003). He is also the Series Editor for _Posthumanities_ published by the University of Minnesota Press. His interests in the relationship between American pragmatism, systems theory, and poststructuralist theory, and in the emergent field of “animal studies” and posthumanism generally, are extended in two current book projects: a collection of essays on expressions of the posthuman in contemporary theory, architecture, film, and art, and a book-length study to be called _Radical Historicity: Modernity as Complexity from Emerson to Stevens_.
post+human+rights
February 19, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
7191 HC White
This event is one of the Mellon - Posthuman events.
Panel discussion on the (dis)connect between the posthuman and human rights, including the following participants:
Matthew Calarco, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton
Gregg Mitman, Director of the Center for Culture, History, and Environment and William Coleman Professor of History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mark P. Bradley, Associate Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago
Alastair P. Hunt, PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Initiative.
On Thursday, Prof. Calarco will also give a talk at 12:00 in 7191 HCW, titled "Of Meat and Miracles: On Werner Herzog's _Grizzly Man_"
