“Posthumanism, the Anthropocene, and Ars Animalium”
Friday October 18, 5:45 pm, Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library

Dr. Cary Wolfe
Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English
Rice University

Cary Wolfe is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Chair in English at Rice University, where he is also the Founding Director of 3CT: The Center for Critical and Cultural Theory. His areas of specialization include 20th–21st century U.S. literature, literary theory, visual culture and comparative media, animal studies, posthumanism, ecocriticism and environmental humanities, science and culture studies, poetry and poetics. Professor Wolfe is the author of Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), What Is Posthumanism? (Minnesota, 2010), and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago, 2012). He is also the editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003) and coedited with Branka Arsić, The Other Emerson (Minnesota, 2010). His most recent projects Ecological Poetics, or, Wallace Stevens’ Birds and a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities are forthcoming in 2020. Professor Wolfe is also the founding editor of the series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press, which has published over fifty volumes to date, by noted authors such as Donna Haraway, Roberto Esposito, Isabelle Stengers, Michel Serres, Vilem Flusser, Jacques Derrida, and others.

 

“What it is like to be what you are not. Animality Human and Non-Human in the Art of Rosemarie Trockel”
Saturday October 19, 3:45 pm, Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library

Dr. Brigid Doherty
Associate Professor
Department of Art and Archaeology
Department of German
Princeton University

Brigid Doherty is an associate professor of German and Art & Archaeology and is an associated faculty member in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. She currently serves as director of the Program in European Cultural Studies and as a member of the executive committees of the Program in Media + Modernity and the Council on International Teaching and Research. Her areas of research and teaching include the interdisciplinary study of 20th-century art and literature, with special emphasis on relationships among the visual arts, literature, and aesthetic and psychoanalytic theories in German modernism. Professor Doherty is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants and fellowships from the Courtauld Institution of Art in London, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin, The American Council of Learned Societies, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Program, the Getty, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current research project, “Homesickness for Things,” explores how, in 20th-century German modernism and its present-day aftermath, objects—among them persons and works of art—become containers for fantasies of return to a maternal body or family home. Professor Doherty is also working on a monograph book project on the work of contemporary artist Rosemarie Trockel.