Posthuman Antiquities: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
a two-day conference with keynotes by Adriana Cavarero & Claudia Baracchi, and with Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, Rebecca Hill, Brooke Holmes, Miriam Leonard, Ramona Naddaff, Michael Naas, Mark Payne, John Protevi, Kristin Sampson, & Giulia Sissa
November 14 & 15, Friday & Saturday
9:15 am to 8 pm
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Claudia Baracchi, Humanities Education, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Emanuela Bianchi, Comparative Literature, New York University
Sara Brill, Philosophy, Fairfield University
Adriana Cavarero, Philosophy, Education & Psychology, University of Verona, Italy
Rebecca Hill, Media & Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Brooke Holmes, Classics, Princeton University
Miriam Leonard, Greek & Latin, University College, London
Michael Naas, Philosophy, DePaul University
Ramona Naddaff, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Mark Payne, Classics, University of Chicago
John Protevi, French Studies and Philosophy, Louisiana State University
Kristin Sampson, Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway
Giulia Sissa, Political Science, UCLA
What can an inquiry into antiquity offer posthumanist thinking on the body, on nature and its relationship with technology, and on the fundamental interrelatedness of the physical, the biological, the psychical, the social and the artifactual?
Greek and Roman literary, philosophical, and medical texts are resplendent with sites in which ‘materiality’ and ‘embodiment’ (in current parlance) erupt into a field of questioning, deliberation, care, and experimentation. A return to antiquity is particularly pertinent in the wake of the philosophical demise of the sovereignty of the modern individual human subject and the rise not only of approaches such as deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and feminism, but also recent turns to chaos theory, complexity theory, vitalism, affect theory, environmental philosophy, and animal studies. As with these contemporary discourses, classical thinking displaces and complicates the modern notion of subjectivity, and finds movement and life inherently at work in both organic and inorganic phenomena.
This international conference seeks to foster conversation and cross-pollination between these vastly different periods positioned, as they both are, as transitional zones. We propose that through an encounter with “the Greeks,” we can not only re-imagine the trajectories and potentialities of contemporary posthumanist theorizing, but also interrogate narratives of origin, legacy, and linear temporality.
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East
Conference organized by Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill and Brooke Holmes. Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Comparative Literature; Center for Ancient Studies; Gallatin Fund: Classics & the Contemporary World; Faculty Global Research Initiative; Dean of the College of Arts & Science; Dean for Humanities, Arts & Science; Humanities Initiative; Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Department of Philosophy; Department of Classics; Department of Media, Culture & Communication; A. S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies; and Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies.
And by the Fairfield University College of Arts and Science; and the Postclassicisms Network.
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