Name: International conference Non-Human, All Too Human: On Animals, Monsters and Other Others
Start: 2025-03-04T10:00:00+01:00
Location: Gosposka in Križevniška Halls / Gosposka 16, 1000 Ljubljana

International conference Non-Human, All Too Human: On Animals, Monsters and Other Others

NON-HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN: ON ANIMALS, MONSTERS AND OTHER OTHERS
International Conference on Philosophy and Experimental Theory

We are surrounded by non-human figures in every corner of contemporary culture, from film and literature to video games and visual arts. These representations have become so widespread that they now shape entire genres and distinct characteristics within these fields. As non-human figures continue to (re-)emerge, theory has followed suit, offering interdisciplinary approaches to explore them as objects of analysis. Drawing inspiration from one of Nietzsche's most iconic works, the title of this conference plays with the tension between the human and the non-human. It invites an exploration of the shifting boundaries between these categories, framed through the lens of Otherness—a concept historically and culturally constructed in contrasting relation to the human. As human has positioned itself as objective, natural, and normative, the idea of Otherness has come to encompass deviation, monstrosity, and animality.
On March 4th, the conference will screen NOSFERATU(1922), directed by F.W. Murnau, and on March 5th, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953), directed by Eugène Lourié, an inspiration for its more famous successor, the Japanese Godzilla (1954).
The entire conference will be streamed live on Zoom from March 4th to 5th, 2025, running daily from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM. You can find us at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89038554005?pwd=nf7ZtOweJkBHbjNyC1lodunMtp6UmG.1
(Meeting ID: 890 3855 4005, Passcode: 884697)
The conference is in English.
Please find the Programme and Info on the Lectures and the Speakers HERE: https://fi2.zrc-sazu.si/en/dogodki/international-conference-non-human-all-too-human-on-animals-monsters-and-other-others
SPEAKERS
Rok Benčin (Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU), Michael Lewis (Newcastle University, UK), Voranc Kumar (Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU), Aleš Mendiževec (Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU), Peter Klepec (Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU), Aleš Bunta (Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU), Adam Potts (Newcastle University, UK), Marisa Žele (Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU), Vesna Liponik (Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU), Lovrenc Rogelj (Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU), Jacob Parkin (Newcastle University, UK), Tadej Troha (Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU), Marina Gržinić Mauhler (Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU), Marjetka Golež Kaučič (Institute of Ethnomusicology, ZRC SAZU), Jaroslav Švelch (Charles University, Prague), Maja Petrović-Šteger (Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, ZRC SAZU), Jovita Pristovšek (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU) Maša Blaznik (Independent Researcher), Branislava Vičar (The Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor), Jelka Kernev Štrajn (Independent Researcher), Fahim Amir (University of the Arts, Bremen)