Keynote Speakers
KENNETH SHAPIRO executive Director Animals and Society Institute, Inc. (hdqtr Ann Arbor MI) t/f 301-963-4751 403 McCauley Street Washington Grove MD 20880 USA www.animalsandsociety.org
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MONIKA BAKKE writes on contemporary art and aesthetics, with a particular focus on posthumanist, gender and cross-cultural perspectives. She works in the Philosophy Department at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. The author of two books: Bio-transfigurations: Art and Aesthetics of Posthumanism (2010, in Polish) and Open Body (2000, in Polish), co-author of Pleroma: Art in Search of Fullness (1998), and editor of Australian Aboriginal Aesthetics (2004, in Polish), Going Aerial: Air, Art, Architecture (2006) and The Life of Air: Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating (2011). Since 2001 she has been an editor of the Polish cultural journal Czas Kultury (Time of Culture). dr hab. Monika Bakke Instytut Filozofii ul. Szamarzewskiego 89c Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza 60-569 Poznan Poland.
MARY TRACHSEL earned her PhD in English with an emphasis in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin. She came to the Iowa Rhetoric Department in 1989. At Iowa she has led advisory groups in the Rhetoric Department’s Professional Development Program and taught General Education Rhetoric and Interpretation of Literature as well as advanced writing courses and graduate courses in feminist pedagogy, feminist ethics, and the history of literacy. She teaches animal studies courses as first-year seminars and honours seminars. Her current research interests focus on human-animal relationships and animal communication, with a special interest in the discourse of ape language research. Her most recent publications include “How to Do Things Without Words: Whisperers as Rustic Authorities on Interspecies Dialogue” (Arguments about Animal Ethics [Greg Goodale and Jason Edward Black, eds.) and “Human Uniqueness in the Age of Ape Language Research” (Society and Animals).
KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK is Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness (SUNY ), The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-Garde, and the Event (Northwestern), and The Force of Art (Stanford). He has also published numerous essays on Clark Coolidge, Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Stein, Stevens, Heidegger, Benjamin, Irigaray, and Levinas, and co-edited two collection of essays, Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies (Northwestern) and Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions (Stanford). He is the author of two books of poetry in Polish, Zaimejlowane z Polski and Sąd dostateczny. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled “Language After Heidegger.” His other current work focuses on the “disappearance” of world in the age of globalization and on the post-Heideggerian notion of being human.
EWA MAZIERSKA is professor at the School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire. She is a specialist in European film history and has published over ten monographs and edited collections on this topic. Her work has been translated into languages such as French, Italian, Czech, Estonian and Korean. She is a founder and associate editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema. Her publications include European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist (Berghahn, 2010), Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema (Berghahn, 2008), Roman Polanski: The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller (I.B. Tauris, 2007), with Elżbieta Ostrowska, Women in Polish Cinema (Berghahn, 2006) and with Laura Rascaroli, Crossing New Europe: The European Road Movie (Wallflower, 2006), Dreams and Diaries: The Cinema of Nanni Moretti (Wallflower, 2004) and From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003). She is currently working on a study devoted to representation of work in European cinema.
TOM TYLER is senior lecturer in philosophy and culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research concerns the use of animals, and the persistent expression of anthropocentric assumptions, within philosophy, critical theory, and popular culture. He is the editor of Animal Beings (Parallax, 2006), the co-editor of Animal Encounters (Brill, 2009), and the author of CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers (Minnesota University Press, 2012).
CLAIR LINZEY is Deputy Director of The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She previously studied at St Andrews and Harvard Divinity School and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of St Andrews working on Leonardo Boff's ecological theology with special consideration for the place of animals.
TADEUSZ SŁAWEK is professor of comparative literature at the University of Silesia which, between 1996-2002, he was the rector of. Published books on Blake, Thoreau, Derrida, Trakl. With the bass player Bogdan Mizerski gives concerts of "essays on voice and double bass".