Schedule

Tentative schedule

Thursday, Nov. 3

Sessions, Pacific Daylight Time

Session 1 and 2 Videos Here

2:00pm Welcome

  • Brianne Donaldson, Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies ⦁ University of California, Irvine

2:15 Session 1

  • Decolonizing Memory in the Antropo-not-seen: Grammars of Listening as Onto-Epistemic Thresholds ⦁ Maria del Rosario Acosta López and Juan Diego Pérez

  • Genre of the Animal: Animality and the Racial Regime of Capitalism ⦁ Che Gossett

  • Rethinking the Concept of “Speciesism” in the Fight for Total Liberation ⦁ Claire Jean Kim

3:45 Break

4:00 Session 2 KEYNOTE / Experiments in Thought & Praxis

  • Shifting Paradigms in Interspecies Relations: What Threshold Concepts Can Assist Us? ⦁ M.J. Barrett

  • Animals in the Anthropocene ⦁ Jo-Anne McArthur

6:00 Wrap up announcements

FRiday, Nov. 4

Sessions, Pacific Daylight Time


Session 3

9:00–10:45

Session 3 Video Here

The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments, Part I ⦁ Angela Robinson and Laura Terrance

  • Dressing for Gods and Trees: Etiquette and Ethics in Multispecies Relations ⦁ Graham Harvey

  • Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, and African Social Epistemology ⦁ Kai Horsthemke

    • Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Multispecies Epistemology ⦁ Bligh Somma


10:45 Break

11:00 Session 4

Session 4 Video Here

  • Animals, Sex and gender: Understanding Animals in Animal Welfare Practice ⦁ Jacob Bull

  • Synchronicities of the Living and the Non-Living: A Process Philosophical Account of 'Nature’ ⦁ Wahida Khandker

  • Knowing Multiply, Unexpectedly, Imaginatively: A Collage For the Late Gloria Anzaldúa ⦁ Suzanne Bost

12:30 Break / Lunch

1:15 Session 5 KEYNOTE / Experiments in Thought & Praxis

Session 5 Video Here

  • Precursor to Knowledge: Semiosis as Proto-Ethics ⦁ Ralph Acampora

  • Music with Mysterious Species in Ponds ⦁ David Rothenberg


3:15 Break

3:30 Session 6

Session 6 Video Here

  • Between the Internal and the External: Knowing Non-humans Beyond the Cognitive Imaginary in Buddhist Thought and Practice ⦁ Daniel Stuart

  • Voracious Secularism: Feeling, Violence, and Knowledge ⦁ Donovan Schaefer

  • Beyond Representational Thinking to Perceptual Contact: Liberating our Inner Muted Animal and Ghosted Saint ⦁ Balbinder Singh Bhogal

5:00 Wrap up announcements

saturday, Nov. 5

Sessions, Pacific Daylight Time


9:00–10:45 Session 7

Session 7 Video Here

The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments Part II ⦁ Angela Robinson and Laura Terrance

  • Tree of Life-Death: On the Vegetal Wisdom of Life in the Book of Zohar ⦁ Michael Marder

  • Who Knows Death: Mortality and Multispecies Epistemology ⦁ Beatrice Marovich

  • Love as a Moral Method: Developing 'Attentive Platonic Love" toward Nonhuman Animals ⦁ Elisa Aaltola

10:45 Break

11:00-12:30 Session 8

Session 8 Video Here

  • Genre of the Animal: Animality and the Racial Regime of Capitalism ⦁ Che Gossett

  • Promiscuous Multispecies Knowing in the "Onto-ethico-epistemolgy" of the Early Jaina Canon ⦁ Brianne Donaldson

  • Transspecies Selves: Rethinking Subjectivity in Precarious Ecologies ⦁ Gabriele Schwab, University of California, Irvine


12:30–12:45 Wrap up and goodbye