The Situationality of Human-Animal Relations: Perspectives from Anthropology and Philosophy

Workshop | 9. - 10. Februar 2017 | Beginn 9.30 Uhr | Seminarraum 3. OG | a.r.t.e.s. Research Lab & Competence Area IV "Cultures and Societies in Transition"

Programm

- Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2017 -

09:30 – 10:00
Registration and welcome

10:00 – 11:00
Thiemo Breyer / Thomas Widlok (Cologne):
Introduction: Situations and human-animal relations

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30
Albert Piette (Paris-Nanterre):
Anthropology, anthropography, ontography

12:30 – 13:30
Maren Wehrle (Leuven):
Habits we (can) share: Shared situations and habits in human-animal encounters

13:30 – 14:30
Lunch break @ a.r.t.e.s.

14:30 – 15:30
Tanja Theißen (Cologne):
On horseback: Embodied human-horse situations in riding

15:30 – 16:30
Kazuyoshi Sugawara (Kyoto):
Animal Borders: From phenomenology to a “naturalography” of evolution

16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break

17:00 – 18:00
Ran Barkai (Tel Aviv):
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Interacting with elephants and whales, past
and present

19:30
Conference dinner

- Freitag, 10. Februar - 

9:30 – 10:30
Shumon T. Hussain (Leiden):
Living among mammoths, owls and cave-lions: A survey of pleistocene humananimal
situations

10:30 – 11:30
Garry Marvin (London):
The bullfight in Spain: The contested situation of a complex event

11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break

12:00 – 13:00
Thorsten Gieser (Koblenz):
Killing a wounded sow: A phenomenological anthropology of a hunting situation

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch break @ a.r.t.e.s.

14:00 – 15:00
Christoph Lange (Cologne):
The modern Arabian horse as "living sculpture" – Human-animal composition and
situationality of/in Arabian horse breeders shows

15:00 – 16:00
Thorsten Fögen (Durham):
Death as a borderline situation in human-animal relations: Some evidence from
Graeco-Roman antiquity

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30
Mario Schmidt (Cologne):
Can the sublacustrine speak? A radical Cartesian multi-species auto-ethnography

17:30 – 18:00
Final discussion and farewell

Organisation
Thiemo Breyer thiemo.breyer(at)uni-koeln.de
Thomas Widlok thomas.widlok(at)uni-koeln.de
Tanja Theißen tanja.theissen(at)web.de