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NONHUMANS & POLITICS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NON-ANTHROPOCENTRIC PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS Programme

Friday, 22 January

9.00 – 9.30 Registration and coffee

9.30 – 9.45 Welcoming remarks

9.45 – 11.15 Panel I: French Perspectives Today Susannah Ellis (Université de Paris 7) A Nostalgia for Humanism? Technology and Technocracy in post-1970s French Thought Massimiliano Simons (University of Leuven) How to Listen to Things: ‘Quasi-objects’ in French Philosophy of Science Iwona Janicka (University of ÌÇÐÄTV & FIPH) The Contours of a Political Subject. Jacques Rancière’s Concept of Politics and the Nonhumans

11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break

11.45 – 13.15 Panel II: Dissensus Andrzej Grzybowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) Beyond the Human/Animal Distinction Federico Zuolo (Freie Universität Berlin & University of Hamburg) Disagreement, Nonhuman Animals, and Politics Núria Almiron (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Bringing True Pluralism to Media. Nonhuman Animals and Media Policies

13.15 – 15.00 Lunch Break

15.00 – 16.30 Panel III: From Ontology to Politics Sigmund Bruno Schilpzand (University of Amsterdam) The Ontology Behind Nonhuman Politics Eva Meijer (University of Amsterdam) Worm Politics Chantelle Gray van Heerden (University of Groningen) Subjectivization, Subjectivities and Subjects: Rethinking the Juncture of Nonhumans and Politics through Ahuman Theory

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break

17.00 – 18.30 Panel IV: On Screen Nikolaj Lubecker (University of Oxford) When Nature Takes Place: Nature as Interruption in the Cabin-projects of James Benning Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University) Representing the Radioactive Environment: The Politics of Documentary Films about the Post-3.11 Nuclear Catastrophe Mashya Boon (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences) Cinematic Clones, Illusive Identities and Mercurial Memories

18.30 Reception

20.00 Dinner

Saturday, 23 January 9.30 – 11.00 Panel V: Stewardship Frauke Albersmeier (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Aiding Nonhumans: Solidarity, Charity, or What else? Ivana Damnjanović (University of Belgrade) AI vs. Democracy. What if Guardians Don’t Need Guarding? Christiane Alpers (Radboud University Nijmegen & KU Leuven) A Posthuman Reconceptualisation of Politics: Responding to the Materialised Good instead of Establishing a Good Order

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.30 Panel VI: Disciplines Reloaded Erika Cudworth & Stephen Hobden (University of East London) Overcoming the Denial of Nature: A Posthuman Perspective Agata Agnieszka Konczal (Adam Mickiewicz University) Nonhuman, Beyond Human or Next to Human? What Can Anthropology Bring to the Debate about a Need of a New Politics?

12.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break

14.30 – 16.00 Panel VII: Interpretative Tropes Benoît Dillet (FRIAS & University of Freiburg) What Ideology Critique for Nonhumans? Alexander Wilson (Aarhus University) On the Chronopolitics of the Posthuman Narrative Josef Barla (University of Vienna) Politics of Nature without Nature. Multispecies Justice and the Flows of Cuts that Bind in the Chthulucene

16.00 End of the conference