Event overview
Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach + Yoriko Otomo in conversation with Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
In anticipation of the paperback publication of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach and Yoriko Otomo will be sharing insights from their contributions to this 34 chapter volume in conversation with special guest Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca. Followed by a wine reception.
Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca is Reader in Theatre and Performance and Director of the Centre for Performance Philosophy at the University of Surrey. She is author of Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance (2012); editor of Deleuze and Performance (2009) and co-editor of Encounters in Performance Philosophy (2014) and Manifesto Now! Instructions for Performance, Philosophy, Politics (2013). She is a founding convener of the professional association, Performance Philosophy (http://www.performancephilosophy.org) and joint editor of its affiliated book series and journal.
Yoriko Otomo is the editor of Law and the Question of the Animal (Routledge, 2014), co-editor of Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food (2017), and author of Unconditional Life: The International Law Settlement (2016). She is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, Research Associate at SOAS, Governor for the Network for International Students and on the board of Minding Animals International.
Undine Sellbach is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee. She is co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (2018) and is currently completing a book about Speculative Ethologies (2020). She has recent essays in Angelaki, Parallax, Deleuze and the Non-human, and Poetic Biopolitics and is author of the children’s book The Floating Islands (2006). Her creative work is documented at <undinefrancescasellbach.blogspot.com>.
Lynn Turner is the editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (2013) co-author of Visual Cultures As… Recollection (2013), and co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (2018). She is currently completing her monograph Exposing Deconstructions: Animal and Sexual Differences (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Co-hosted by the Critical Ecologies Research Stream and the Department of Visual Cultures
Dates & times
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| 7 Jun 2019 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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