About the publication

Dear Colleagues,

First of all, I would like take this opportunity to thank all of you for participation in the conference on The Experience of Animality in Culture, Science and Daily Life, and especially those of you who, for various reasons, had to leave before the end of the conference without me being able to express my gratitude in person. I dare to say all presentations were state of the art and meticulously prepared making the effort worthwhile. I hope you have safely arrived home, and that the time spent in Warsaw at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies will contribute to your future research and academic work. Above all, the diversity of our research should not be seen as a disadvantage. Our focus on hermeneutic, interpretative, often textual, philosophical and philological method is a natural consequence of humanistic education. Therefore, we would rather combat the temptation to posit our conference was yet another conference on animals without animals. Of course, we wish there existed a direct and unmediated by language and culture experience of animality through observation, touch, look, or simply by the coexistence  of man and animal. Aside this rather obvious limitation to human cognition, we should answer the call to pursue liberating knowledge by first questioning the dominant subjectifying and third person paradigms of modern behavioural sciences, neurosciences and cognitive sciences.

Please refer to our website for the footage of the conference and to follow the forthcoming meetings and discussions: http://www.animality.ibi.uw.edu.pl/

We shall soon be making arrangements to have conference papers published in a single volume. Its major theme will be transgression of the man-animality opposition and the need to rethink what Tom Tyler referred to as "the bad faith of being human", meaning "anthroponormative over-identification" of “unanimal man" recognized by Tadeusz Sławek, "reviving biophilia" by Mary Trachsel, "monstrosity" by Kathleen Long, or Krzysztof Ziarek’s "Heidegger's questioning of the priority of the notions of life and humans as living beings". Should you have any comments regarding this unifying theme, please email me: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . THE DEADLINE FOR SENDING THE PAPERS IS 13TH JANUARY 2013. Please confirm your access by sending short notice to the above email address.

On the technical side, in order to format your manuscript please follow Instructions for the preparation of manuscripts, and in particular remember to use NO FOOTNOTES but parentheses inside the text, e.g. The Interpretation of Dreams needs not only (Freud 1900) but: (Freud 1900a) - see the attached Instructions and Example for further details. Also, please make sure that your manuscript DOES NOT EXCEED 10000 WORDS. Later in the editing process non-native English speakers will also be asked to consult a native (British) English speaker to proof their text. 

Whilst it is not possible to ascertain publication of each paper I will be working with you to facilitate the process.

With best wishes,

Szymon Wróbel