Programme
ANIMALS, RELIGION AND THEOLOGY
ANIMALS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
THURSDAY October 11
09.00-09.30 REGISTRATION
09.30-09.45 Welcome and Opening of the Conference:
Professors JERZY AXER and SZYMON WRÓBEL
09.45-10.30 Keynote lecture: KENNETH SHAPIRO, The Emerging Field of Human-Animal Studies: Application to Companion Animal Abuse
10.30-11.15 Keynote lecture: MONIKA BAKKE, Biotech Animal: Tissues, Cells and Genomes as Animals
11.15-11.30 Coffee break
THE HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIP
Chairing: TOM TYLER
11.30-12.00 PIOTR LASKOWSKI, Wegen dem Pferd. The Fear and the Animal Life
12.00-12.30 SZYMON WRÓBEL, Praise for Monstrosities. The Case of Niccolò Machiavelli
12.30-13.00 MAGDALENA DĄBROWSKA, Cynological Sports: A New Paradigm for Human- animal Relationships?
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Keynote lecture: MARY TRACHSEL, Beyond Words: A Socio-Biological History of Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships on the University of Iowa Campus (1847-2012)
14.45-15.00 Coffee break
THE ANIMAL ETHICS
Chairing: KENNETH SHAPIRO
15.00-15.30 KATHLEEN PERRY LONG, Evil and the Human/ Animal Divide: From Pliny to Paré
15.30-16.00 JAN HARTMAN, Animals are Good People Too
16.00-16.30 PAWEŁ ZAŁĘSKI, Ethics and Aesthetics of Vegetarianism
16.30-17.00 KRZYSZTOF SKONIECZNY, The Ethics of Becoming-Animal in Michel de Montaigne
FRIDAY October 12
09.00-09.45 Keynote lecture: KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK, The Modern Privilege of Life: Rethinking the Human-Animal with Regard to the World
09.45-10.00 Coffee break
ANIMALS IN LITERATURE
Chairing: MARY TRACHSEL
10.00-10.30 MIROSŁAW LOBA, Literature and the Darwinian Turn: From Flaubert to Gombrowicz
10.30-11.00 JOANNA PARTYKA, Wolves and Women: À Propos the Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Book
11.00-11.30 PRZEMYSŁAW KORDOS, Saurians, Khepri and Graphomanus Spasmaticus: Zoomorphism in Science-Fiction Creations
11.30-12.00 EWA DOMANSKA, I Am an Animist. Ecological Humanities and Personhood
12.00.-12.30 KINGA JĘCZMIŃSKA, Attitude towards Animality in Stories about Werewolves and Vampires Analysed from a Medical Perspective
12.30-13.00 TOMASZ GARNCAREK, Shamanic Worlds of Gombrowicz and Castaneda
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Keynote lecture: EWA MAZIERSKA, Animals and Humans in the Films of Béla Tarr
14.45-15.00 Coffee break
ANIMALS IN ART AND CULTURE
Chairing: EWA MAZIERSKA
15.00-15.30 EWA ŁUKASZYK, Towards Other Modalities of Being: Transgression into the Animal Condition in Post-Humanity, Primitive Humanity and Contemporary Art
16.00-16.30 JOANNA WALEWSKA, The Beech Marten Project. The Use of Low Technologies for Human-Animal Communication in the Urban Niche
16.30-17.00 PAWEŁ MOŚCICKI, The Cloth of Man. Contribution to a Study on the Human-Animal Pathos
20.00 Conference dinner (all speakers invited)
SATURDAY October 13
09.00-09.45 Keynote lecture: TOM TYLER, The Bad Faith of Being Human
09.45-10.30 Keynote lecture: CLAIR LINZEY, If You Disparage the Creature, You Disparage the Creator
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
ANIMALS, RELIGION AND THEOLOGY
Chairing: KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK
10.45-11.15 ALINA MITEK-DZIEMBA, Animal Theology: The Case for a Post-Secular Sacrality
11.15-11.45 JACEK DOBROWOLSKI, Atheology of Animality as Emancipation Tool of Modern Humanity
11.45-12.15 RAFAŁ ZAWISZA, Not Being Angel. Manichaeism as an Obstacle to Thinking New Approach to Animality
12.15-13.15 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Keynote lecture: TADEUSZ SŁAWEK, Unanimal Man. On What Remains Primeval
in Our Formalized Humanity
14.15-14.30 Coffee break
ANIMALS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Chairing: TADEUSZ SŁAWEK
14.30-15.00 NINA GŁADZIUK, Protean Manifestations of Social Darwinism in American Political Thought
15.00-15.30 AGNIESZKA KOWALCZYK, Animality and Nature in Marx Thought – Beyond Modern Assumptions ?
15.30-16.00 PAWEL MIECH, Being a Rat vs. Identifying With a Rat – a Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Human-Animal Divide
16.00-16.30 MATEUSZ JANIK, People and Other Political Animals – Do We Need Dehumanization of Politics?
17.00 FINAL DISCUSSION