Democracy's Non-Human and Non-Living "Others"

International workshop, CUNY Public Science, May 2nd, 2014. 

Audio recordings of some of the papers presented at the symposium can be found below.

Anatoli Ignatov - How Land Speaks: Orature and ecological change 

Michelle Bastian - Multi Species Methods: Participatory research and the more-than-­human

Gwendolyn Blue - Animal Publics: Political subjectivity after the human subject. View the Powerpoint slides here.

Aaron Goodfellow - ‘It’s a Killing Machine Just Waiting for You’: Chemical
dependency, slave narratives, and biological citizenship in Baltimore Maryland

Naveeda Khan - From Metamorphosis to Sentience in Plants: Two approaches

Ali Lara - Spicy and Thermoception:
The affective experience of eating street food

Ananya Mukherjea & Jeffrey Bussolini - La Vie en Commun: Cat Yoga

Catherine D’Ignazio - The Babbling Brook

Andres Marquez-Lara - Imagining and Embodying ‘Others’: How theater helps us explore the relationship between humans and non-present, non-­human and non-­living ‘others’. View the powerpoint slides for the Pecha-Kucha presentation here.

Amy Hicks - With the Animal in Mind: Searching for the girl with the hairy paw

Rita Turner - Re­‐Imagining Human Relationships with the More­‐Than­‐Human World

Fernando Quigua and Joshua W. Clegg - Toward an Aesthetic Science

Elan Abrell: Collaborative Rescue:Non-­human agency in animal sanctuaries

Plenary discussion: with Jane Bennett, Maria Torre, Julian Brigstocke, Rachel Liebert.