Event overview
Cary Wolfe (Rice University)
Saturday 13th June
4.00-6.00pm
Professor Stuart Hall Building (PSH) LG02
Cary Wolfe’s books include Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), What Is Posthumanism? (Minnesota, 2010) and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago, 2012). His edited collections include Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003) and The Other Emerson (Minnesota, 2010, co-edited). He has also participated in two recent multi-authored collections: Philosophy and Animal Life (Columbia, 2008), with Cora Diamond, Ian Hacking, Stanley Cavell, and John McDowell, and The Death of the Animal : A Dialogue (Columbia, 2009), with Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, Harlan Miller, Matthew Calarco, and novelist J. M. Coetzee. He is founding editor of the Posthumanities series at the University of Minnesota Press and is currently working on a book project to be called Wallace Stevens’ Birds: The Poetics of Extinction.
Chair: Lynn Turner
Organised by the department of Visual Cultures in collaboration with the Graduate School, the Centre for Cultural Studies and the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
The event is free and no booking is required.
All are welcome!
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Jun 2015 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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