Details of all future ShARC events can be found on our new website: http://sheffieldanimals.group.shef.ac.uk/
Reading Group: ‘Animal Rights, Multiculturalism, and the Left’, Friday 24th July, 5pm, Jessop West Seminar Rm 2
Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium (ShARC) presents, the
Animals Reading and Discussion Group
Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson
‘Animal Rights, Multiculturalism, and the Left’
Jessop West, Seminar Room 2
Friday 24th July, 5-6pm
Download the text here: Kymlicka_Donaldson_multiculturalism&animals
(Also available on YouTube: “Animal Rights, Multiculturalism, and The Left”)
‘Thinking about the Posthuman Actor: Animals in Performance Practices’, Weds 20th May, 4.30pm
Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium (ShARC) and the School of English Research Seminar present
Lourdes Orozco (Theatre, University of Leeds)
‘Thinking about the Posthuman Actor: Animals in Performance Practices’
Wednesday 20th May, 4.30pm
HRI Seminar Room
Reading Group: Cary Wolfe, “Old Orders for New”, Tues. 12th May, 5pm, Jessop West Seminar Rm 2
Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium (ShARC) presents, the
Animals Reading and Discussion Group
Cary Wolfe
“Old Orders for New:
Ecology, Animal Rights, and the Poverty of Humanism”
Jessop West, Seminar Room 2
Tuesday 12th May, 5-6.30pm
Download the text here: wolfe – old orders for new
“Storytelling beyond the Human: Modelling Animal Experiences in Narrative Worlds”, Weds 6th May, 4.30pm
Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium (ShARC) and the School of English Research Seminar present
David Herman (Literature, Durham University)
Storytelling beyond the Human: Modelling Animal Experiences in Narrative Worlds
Wednesday, 6th May, 4.30-5.30pm
Richard Roberts Building, A87
This presentation argues that previous research in narratology and stylistics has not investigated fully enough questions raised by the use of methods of thought presentation to model the experiential worlds of nonhuman animals. Outlining an expanded and diversified conception of the mind-narrative nexus, I link the narrative projection of nonhuman subjectivity with Uexküll’s idea of the Umwelt, an animal’s lived or phenomenal world. In this way, I suggest how stories can be used to explore potential heterogeneities–but also potential areas of commonality–in the structure of experience across the species boundary. Focusing on writers ranging from Jack London, Daphne du Maurier, and William Horwood to J. A. Baker and Esther Woolfson, I examine a variety of methods for presenting animals’ experiences, and also consider issues arising from the way those methods straddle the fiction/nonfiction divide.
David Herman, Professor of the Engaged Humanities at Durham University, is currently working to bring ideas from narrative studies into dialogue with scholarship on animals and human-animal relationships.
“Human-Animal Studies in Archaeology: Views from the Past, Perspectives from the Present”
Sheffield Animal Research Colloquium (ShARC) presents
Naomi Sykes
Human-Animal Studies in Archaeology:
Views from the Past, Perspectives from the Present
Wednesday 29th April
5.15-6.30pm
Richard Roberts Building, B79
“The Habits and Habitats of Old English Riddle-Animals”, Weds 15th April, 5.30pm
Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium and the Medieval and Ancient Research Seminar present
Megan Cavell (Durham University)
“The Habits and Habitats of Old English Riddle-Animals”
This talk will discuss poetic depictions of the cuckoo, ox and porcupine in the Old English and Anglo-Latin riddle tradition. In analysing representations of these enigmatic animals, I will attempt to tease out Anglo-Saxon attitudes to non-humans that go above and beyond inherited tradition and anthropomorphisation.
Humanities Research Institute (HRI)
Weds. 15th April, 5.30-6.30pm
with refreshments from 5pm
“Defending Animals”, April 1st, 4pm
Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium presents
“Defending Animals”
Rosaleen Duffy (SOAS), “Responsibility to protect? Ecocide, interventionism and saving biodiversity”
Siobhan O’Sullivan (UNSW), “Who’s looking at what? The politics and ethics of drones in animal activism”
Wednesday 1st April 4pm – 5.30pm
Jessop West, Seminar Room 8
Introducing the Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium
The Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium (ShARC) is a new interdisciplinary research network at the University of Sheffield. We are a collective of academics working across the humanities and the social sciences. We are currently organising a series of research seminars at the University of Sheffield, and have plans for further events including reading groups, film screenings, and conferences. Our latest news will always be posted here, and on our Twitter account (@ShefAnimals).
ShARC is committed to understanding the political and cultural representation of animals.
ShARC takes animals seriously. We are intellectually and ethically curious about animals and their various habitats.
ShARC does not believe that humans are exceptional amongst species.
ShARC is interested in imagining new cultures and politics of human – animal relations.
For more information, please contact Seán McCorry (s.mccorry@sheffield.ac.uk).
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