Non-Human Encounters: Animals, Objects, Affects, And The Place of Practice
a forum with Nuar Alsadir, Pablo Assumpção B Costa, Eleonora Fabião, Carla Freccero, Elaine Freedgood, Katie Gentile, Francisco Gonzalez, Ann Pellegrini, Donovan Schaefer, Julietta Singh, Nathan Snaza, & Michelle Stephens
March 24, Friday
2pm-6:30pm
Pablo Assumpção B Costa, Global Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, New York University
Eleonora Fabião, performance artist & theorist, professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Carla Freccero, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Elaine Freedgood, English, New York University
Katie Gentile, Interdisciplinary Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Francisco Gonzalez, Personal & Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and Staff Psychiatrist, Instituto Familiar de la Raza
Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies and Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University
Donovan Schaefer, Lecturer in Religion & Science, Trinity College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Julietta Singh, English, University of Richmond
Nathan Snaza, English, University of Richmond
Michelle Stephens, English & Latino and Caribbean Studies, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
This half-day symposium is the 9th annual collaboration between NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. The question of the non-human is a vital one for psychoanalysis, but in the main remains a path not taken. There is, meanwhile, a growing scholarly literature, and across multiple fields, that explores the post- and non-human: e.g., critical animal studies, new materialisms, object-oriented ontology, post-colonial studies, affect studies, and queer of color critique. The broad goal of this year’s forum is to see what happens when clinicians, cultural theorists, and arts practitioners talk together about and beyond the limits of the human, through such keywords as animals, objects, and affects. Through an explicit foregrounding of the “place of practice,” panelists will also attend to questions of institutional location (e.g., classroom, cubicle, consulting room, museum or gallery, street corner) as well as histories of power. How does where we think, write, work, and with whom (or what) shape critical practices, conceptual possibilities, horizons of the sayable and sensible.
Performance Studies Studio
721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Room 612
Co-sponsored by the NYU Animal Studies Initiative, Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and Department of Performance Studies, and by the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality.