9:15-11:00AM - SESSION ONE: ANIMAL SUBJECTS
“Animals as Subjects and the Rehabilitation of Humanism”
Speaker: Gary Steiner, John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy, Bucknell University
Introduction By: Jeff Sebo, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Animal Studies & Environmental Studies, New York University
“Changing the Subjects, Indeed: Diversification of Inquiry In Animal Studies and Animal Ethics”
Speaker: Ralph R. Acampora, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hofstra University
Introduction By: Traci Warkentin, Assistant Professor of Geography, Hunter College
11:00-11:30AM - COFFEE BREAK
Great Room, 19 University Place
11:30-1:30PM - SESSION TWO: ANIMAL CULTURES:
“Cats Eating Chile Peppers: Refutation of the Rozin Hypothesis”
Speaker: Jeffrey Bussolini, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, CUNY; Director at the Center of Feline Studies/Feline Interaction Laboratory, ABMSC
Introduction By: Colin Jerolmack, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, New York University
“Pan thanatology – Mourning Chimpanzees”
Speaker: Lori Gruen, Professor of Philosophy, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Introduction By: Loredana Loy, MA Candidate, Interdisciplinary, Sociology & Media Communications, New York University
“Minding Animals Redux: Who Lives, Who Dies, And Why?”
Speaker: Marc Bekoff, Professor Emeritus of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
Introduction By: Dale Jamieson, Director of Environmental Studies; Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy; Affiliated Professor Law, New York University
1:30-3:00PM - LUNCH
Great Room, 19 University Place
3:00-4:30PM - BREAKOUT SESSIONS
4:30-6:30PM - SESSION THREE: ANIMAL FANTASIES
“Bestiality”
Speaker: Jacques Lezra, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature; Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, New York University
Introduction By: Ada Smailbegovic, PhD Candidate, English Department, New York University
“A Scholar and His Cat”
Speaker: Susan Crane, Professor of English, Columbia University
Introduction By: Matthew Margini, PhD Candidate, English Department, Columbia University
“Theatre of Species and the Interspecies Imagination”
Speaker: Una Chaudhuri
Introduction By: Marissa Mickelberg, MA Candidate, Performance Studies, New York University