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All Things Living and Not: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Non-anthropocentric Perspectives in Slavic Studies

Thursday, February 23, 2017Saturday, February 25, 2017

Please join us for a three-day conference entitled “All Things Living and Not: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Non-Anthropocentric Perspectives in Slavic Studies.”

The last two decades have witnessed a revision in the concept of alterity, decentering the human in how we reckon with the other. Animal studies, artificial intelligence, ecocriticism, etc. not only ask us to consider the possibility of non-human subjects, but also challenge our very humanness and, along with it, the very premises of the humanities and human sciences. What does a non-anthropocentric understanding of the other offer to the field of Slavic studies? And conversely, what can the cultures, histories, and belief systems of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia reveal about practices and possibilities of radical alterity?

The international conference, All Things Living and Not, brings together senior scholars and emerging researchers from across the U.S. and former socialist bloc to discuss the conjunction between the animal, the plant, the machine, inorganic matter, and the human as a way to destabilize the mind-body dichotomy, class, race, gender, age, etc. Keynote speaker Ewa Domanska (Poznan and Stanford) along with stream leaders Jane Costlow (Bates), Serguei Oushakine (Princeton), and Oxana Timofeeva (European U. in St. Petersburg) will push participants to think through new approaches to the cultures, histories, and politics of the region.

February 23-25
Harriman Institute
and Deutsches Haus
Columbia University

More details to come.

From Columbia’s Harriman Institute.

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Thursday, February 23, 2017
End:
Saturday, February 25, 2017
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http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/all-things-living-and-not-interdisciplinary-conference-non-anthropocentric-perspectives-slavic

Venue

Deutsches Haus Columbia
420 West 116th Street
New York City, NY 10027 United States
Phone
212.854.3202
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Organizer

Harriman Institute
Phone
212.854.4623
Email
harriman@columbia.edu
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