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</span><b><u>Navigating a Multispecies World: A Graduate
Student Conference on the Species Turn</u></b><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt">APRIL 25-26, 2013</span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Co-sponsored by the
Harvard Program on Science, Technology, and Society (STS),
the Harvard Department of Anthropology, the MIT Department
of Anthropology, and the Harvard Political Ecology Working
Group (PEWG).</span><span
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</span>We invite papers for a multidisciplinary graduate
student conference to be held at Harvard University from April
25 - April 26, 2013.
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</span>Our confirmed speakers include Noam Chomsky (Institute
Professor & Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, MIT) and
Stefan Helmreich (Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology,
MIT).<span
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</span>This conference concerns the recent innovations and
insights for the study of ontologies and socialities
engendered through the “species turn” -- that is, the
intellectual turn to, and reflection upon, life beyond the
human species in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Emerging over the last few decades of the 20th century, the
species turn developed (1) from a diverse array of analytical
and theoretical formations concerned with aspects of the
nonhuman (animate and inanimate), including actor-network
theory, affect theory, animal studies, assemblage theory, the
new materialism, and systems theory; and (2) in productive
tension with a parallel intellectual development --
posthumanism -- articulated through such innovative
theoretical work as Katherine Hayles’
<i>How We Became Posthuman</i> and Cary Wolfe’s <i>What Is
Posthumanism?</i> While all approaches<i>
</i>hold their own particular aims, objects, and
methodologies, they<i> </i>urge us to consider that we,
humans, are not alone. That is, we live in a world populated
by and constituted through life forms and forms of life beyond
the human. And as such, we must critically reconsider who “we”
are in terms that challenge the limitations and dangers of
anthropocentrism.<span
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</span>We welcome papers from any discipline on topics
including, but not limited to:<span
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</span>- Animal rights<span
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</span>- Chimeras<span
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</span>- Human-nonhuman relations<span
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</span>- Interspecies solidarity<span
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</span>- Kinship<span
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</span>- Multispecies biopolitics<span
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</span>- Nonhuman agency<span
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</span>- Nonhuman ethics<span
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</span>- Nonhuman subjectivity<span
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</span>- Nonhuman ontology<span
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</span>- Representations of nonhumans<span
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</span>- Species concept<span
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</span>Please submit abstracts of up to 350 words by February
28, 2013, to <span
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href="mailto:multispeciesworld@gmail.com"><span
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Roman","serif";color:#1155CC">multispeciesworld@gmail.com</span></a></span>.
If you have any questions, please send them to
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Roman","serif";color:#1155CC">multispeciesworld@gmail.com</span></a></span>.
Acceptances will be sent by March 14, 2013.<br>
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<pre>Best,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Mads Dahl Gjefsen<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>PhD candidate<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>University of Oslo<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Program on Science, Technology and Society<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Harvard Kennedy School<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>(+47) 976 88 006 <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>(+1) 857-756-0580<span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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