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Symposium Programme
FRIDAY 10 April 2015 – Site: Salon de Anexo (Student Center Annexe)
1:00 pm. Opening words, Nandita Batra, Symposium Coordinator, and Dean Manuel Valdes-Pizzini; University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
Session A: 1:45-2:45 Plenary Speaker: John Hartigan; University of Texas at Austin
“Aesop: figuring human/animal relations”
Session B: 3:00-5:00 Exceptionalism ~ Moderator: Mario Wenning
Stephen T. Newmyer; Duquesne University
“Guarding the Boundary: ‘Human Exceptionalism’ in Greek Natural Philosophy”
Alex C. Parrish; James Madison University
“Rhetorics of Human Exceptionalism: Ancient and Modern ‘Animaling’ as Justification for Oppression”
Anderson Brown; University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
"Ontological Problems with Cognitivist Accounts of Human Uniqueness”
Paul Carron, Baylor University
“Monkeys, Men, and Moral Responsibility: A Neo-Aristotelian Case for a Qualitative Distinction”
Session C: 5:00-6:00 Ethics and Individuals ~ Moderator: Anderson Brown
Kevin Kaiser; Richland College
“The Passion of 93990: George Saunders and the Question of Biomedical Ethics”
Sara Gavrell; University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
“A Sea Ethic for Islands: Helping Others and the Persons of the Sea”
SATURDAY 11 April 2015 – Site - Administración de Empresas 242 (Business Administration)
9:00-9:45 am Ana Kothe, Symposium Chief Associate Coordinator, introduces Mario Wenning
Session D: 9:00 am. Mario Wenning; Symposium Consulting Coordinator; University of Macau
"What is animal becomes human and what is human becomes animal"
Session E 9:45-11:45 Food and Farms ~ Moderator: Ana Kothe
Jerome Bump; University of Texas at Austin
“The Ultimate Boundary: Food Animals?”
Richard C. Delerins; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
"‘Ethical Foie Gras’: Between Gastro-nationalism and Animal Well-being”
Gary Comstock; North Carolina State University
“The Cattle in the Long Cedar Springs Draw”
Sally J. Delgado; University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
“Protein or People: an analysis of the ideological separatism embedded in how we think about food”
LUNCH 12:00-1:00
Session F 1:15-3:15 Boundary Crossings ~ Moderator: Nick Haydock
Kurt Milberger; University of Notre Dame
“Fear of Further Falling: The Human/Boundary in Seventeenth-century British Theological Literature”
James P. Conlan; University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
“Milton’s Elephant”
Sukanya Senapati University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
“Ramayana’s Hanuman – Animal, Human or Divine”
Lee Rozelle; University of Montevallo
“Permeable Membranes: Redrawing the Human Animal in The Walking Dead”
Session G 3:30-5:00 Animal Images and Myth ~ Moderator: Mario Wenning
Dannabang Kuwabong; University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
“Indigenous myth as narrative of ecological balance between humans and non-human animals among the Dagaaba of Ghana and Burkina Faso in The Third Bagre: A Myth Revisited”
Dawnja Burris; New School
“Animal Instances: Relationship to the Non-Human Animal through its Image”
José Neftalí Recinos; Stephen F. Austin State University
“The Animal Kingdom: From Bestiaries to Cyber/Mythology. Literature in
Postwar Central America”
SUNDAY 12 April 2015 – Site - Salon de Anexo (Student Center Annexe)
Session H 9:00-11:00 Language and Tools ~ Moderator: Odette Ortiz
Layla Colón Vale; University of Puerto Rico-Rio
“Flush: The Little Dog That Could”"
Fiorella Cotrina, University of Miami
"Dog City: Undoing the Human-Animal Dichotomy in Amores Perros"
Kristian Bjørkdahl; Rokkan Centre for Social Studies
“‘Now We Must Redefine Tool, Redefine Man, or Accept Chimpanzees as Humans’: The Rhetorical History of a Very Famous Statement”
Andrea Gutierrez; University of Texas at Austin
“Parrot's Voice: An Exploration of Animal Language and the Languaging of Animals in Early Indian Texts”
Session I 11:00-12:00 Posthumanism and Dislocations ~ Moderator: Stephen Newmyer
Fernando Rodríguez; University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
“Mechanical Animals: We3”
Natasha Lushetich; University of Exeter
“Transgenic Art: A Multilogue with Bataille, Heidegger and Derrida”
LUNCH 12:15-1:15
Session J 1:30-3:30 Reconfigurations, Personhood and Sexuality ~ Moderator: Natasha Lushetich
Ameen Mettawa; University of Florida
"Tropical Malady and Animal Histories"
Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio; University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
“Ecosexuality: A New Take on Interspecies Love”
Shane Stroup; Southern Illinois University
“When is an Animal a Person?”
3:30-4:00 pm Closing Words and thanks. Nandita Batra and Mario Wenning
