SPEAKERS

GUEST FACULTY SPEAKERS

David Abram
Wild Being

Bill Martin, (Philosophy, De Paul)
Animals and truth: At the limits of humanism, Marxism, and deconstruction

Roger Gottlieb, (Philosophy/Religious Studies, Worcester Polytechnic)
The Spirit of Ecological Democracy

Peter Steeves, (Philosophy, De Paul)
The Man Who Mistook His Meal for a Hotdog

John Sanbonmatsu, (Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic)
On the Animal Question

Ben Hale, (Philosophy and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Tongue Tied: How Non-human Animals Lose their Voice in Habermas's Discourse Ethics

Carol Gigliotti, (Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver)
The Case for Critical Animal Studies

Len Lawlor, (Philosophy, Memphis)
“Auto-Affection and Becoming: Following the Rats” (Derrida and Deleuze)

Irene Klaver, (Philosophy/Religious Studies, UNT Denton)
Dead River Talking

Al Lingis, (Philosophy, Penn State)
Understanding the Intelligence of Other Species

Donald Turner, (Philosophy, Nashville State Community College)
The Trace of God in the Trace of the Other Animal

Cary Wolfe, (English, Rice)
Flesh and Finitude: Diamond, Derrida, Coetzee

Carrie Rohman, (English, Pittsburgh)
Animality and the Aesthetic: Coetzee, Grosz, and A Dog’s Voice

Kari Weil, (College of Letters, Wesleyan University)
The Aesthetics of Attunement or Looking at Animals Looking

Ralph Acampora, (Philosophy, Hofstra)
Inventionist Ethology: Sustainable Designs for Reawakening Human-Animal Interactivity

OTHER VANDERBILT PARTICIPANTS

Ellen Armour (Divinity)
Michael Bess (History)
Beth A. Conklin (Anthropology and Religious Studies)
Colin Dayan (English)
Sara Figal (Germanic & Slavic Languages)
Lisa Guenther (Philosophy)
Richard King (Religious Studies)
Jonathan Lamb (English)
Kelly Oliver (Philosophy)
Gay Welch (Religious Studies)
David Wood (Philosophy)